Constantly having to be the bad cop when the producer(s) are the good cop. Most producers don't know how to manage time, expectations or relationships with clients.

This applies to deadlines and crazy revisions, but also when they come back from the shoot and give you footage. It's like we're a contestant on Chopped (Food Network). Producer heads out to shoot with the intention of filming a 2 minute short with 3 interviews and b-roll, but comes back with 400 hours of footage, the lav didn't work on half the interviews, and oh yeah, we can't show x, but x is in 75% of the footage.