Should I work with this guy?
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:58 am
OK, so a friend of mine has got himself a potential contract to do a fairly big dynamicly driven site. He is using Joomla to do the main part of it but wants my php skills in order to handle some stuff thats outside joomlas capabilities (collecting and analysing data on site usage and so on). However, since I spoke to him hes been putting me under a lot of pressure and giving me conflicting information.
For a start, at one point he said he was going to pay me £4000 over two months (although straight after this he reminded me some of my share in the project would have to be reinvested in web servers and such...), which has now turned into £600 over two weeks. He is also being quite vague about exactly he wants me to do on the site, whilst at the same time reminding me of the legal obligations I'd have if I entered a contract with him and the fact he would pursue it if I failed to do what I'd said.
At the moment my gut instinct is to simply walk away from this. I have the feeling I'm being played by this guy to provide underpriced coding services whilst he pockets most of the cash from the website. Problem is I have Aspergers syndrome and I'm aware that can make me quite guliable.
What do you think I should do?
For a start, at one point he said he was going to pay me £4000 over two months (although straight after this he reminded me some of my share in the project would have to be reinvested in web servers and such...), which has now turned into £600 over two weeks. He is also being quite vague about exactly he wants me to do on the site, whilst at the same time reminding me of the legal obligations I'd have if I entered a contract with him and the fact he would pursue it if I failed to do what I'd said.
At the moment my gut instinct is to simply walk away from this. I have the feeling I'm being played by this guy to provide underpriced coding services whilst he pockets most of the cash from the website. Problem is I have Aspergers syndrome and I'm aware that can make me quite guliable.
What do you think I should do?
Doh!