Just venting a bit...
A few months ago the boy friend, Kay, of a good friend the family needed help getting an ecommerce site with some specific functionality off the ground. I was extremely busy at the time so I connected Kay with another friend of mine, Dick, who is a developer. They signed a contract that had specific milestones and payments attached to them.
For the most part I was not involved in this other than making the connection and giving my input on designs and features. This was back in December.
Can you guess where this is going yet?
About a month ago Dick said that items he thought were completed by his partner were not only not complete – the code he wrote was not usable. So Dick said he would start from scratch. At that time he estimated that he could get the initial front end up in about a week.
For the last 3 weeks we’ve been hearing that he has a few more hours and its done.
Now Kay is really pissed about this as he had some national TV exposure for free 2 weeks ago, but no site.
"Another few hours and we are done" for the last 2 weeks
This morning we get an email from Dick saying that he is going through some personal issues, is overly stressed and accidently overwrote his files. As a result he is giving up on the contract that he was already paid for.
They both asked me to take over development, to which I tentatively agreed. I sent Dick a contract for it which also included paying me all the money he collected by credit card so that I would be paid immediately. Now he comes back and says the best he can do is 1/2 at the end of this month and 1/2 the end of next month. If I take it its basically all my free time and my next 2 weekends to get it dome
Now I could just tell Kay that I don’t have time. But I don’t want to leave him hanging and its good money (if I can get it).
I have to see if I want to accept that payment plan from Dick.
(Both name have been changed)
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A few months ago the boy friend, Kay, of a good friend the family needed help getting an ecommerce site with some specific functionality off the ground. I was extremely busy at the time so I connected Kay with another friend of mine, Dick, who is a developer. They signed a contract that had specific milestones and payments attached to them.
For the most part I was not involved in this other than making the connection and giving my input on designs and features. This was back in December.
Can you guess where this is going yet?
About a month ago Dick said that items he thought were completed by his partner were not only not complete – the code he wrote was not usable. So Dick said he would start from scratch. At that time he estimated that he could get the initial front end up in about a week.
For the last 3 weeks we’ve been hearing that he has a few more hours and its done.
Now Kay is really pissed about this as he had some national TV exposure for free 2 weeks ago, but no site.
"Another few hours and we are done" for the last 2 weeks
This morning we get an email from Dick saying that he is going through some personal issues, is overly stressed and accidently overwrote his files. As a result he is giving up on the contract that he was already paid for.
They both asked me to take over development, to which I tentatively agreed. I sent Dick a contract for it which also included paying me all the money he collected by credit card so that I would be paid immediately. Now he comes back and says the best he can do is 1/2 at the end of this month and 1/2 the end of next month. If I take it its basically all my free time and my next 2 weekends to get it dome
Now I could just tell Kay that I don’t have time. But I don’t want to leave him hanging and its good money (if I can get it).
I have to see if I want to accept that payment plan from Dick.
(Both name have been changed)
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