Re: Re[2]: FN-FORUM: Clients from Hell: for Gary

date posted 29th January 2004 16:33

The biggie would be don't take something on with a vague specification, and
try and get a sum up front (like 40% of the total cost) as a retainer.

I appreciate it's sometimes not easy to do that, but you do leave yourself
wide open to this kind of thing if you don't take these precautions.

HTH,
Dan.

> I've just had that problem today! I am a student, I freelance to try
> to supplement my terrible part-time job income, and I've spent just
> over eight months working with a company to design a form of
> Management Information System customized to their needs.
> They fired their middle-man who basically mis-communicated the
> project to me, twice, so I was in the third version of the solution,
> redeveloping at no extra cost, through pride of my work.
>
> After two months of very, very sparse contact, one of the junior
> employees informed me today: "I think he's given up on that".
>
> I've missed coursework deadlines to try and accomodate them and I've
> written the application twice before, but now I am stuffed, quite
> basically.
>
> Anyone have any advice ?
>
> Kind regards,
> Baris