"John BORIS" <jbo...@adphila.org> writes: > As to the Web site he told them that he was going to give up the web > site work in a month and since he wasn't compensated for the initials > design work he wanted compensation. If he wasn't compensated he was > pulling his work off the site.
This is probably the mistake. My personal line is that if I feel someone owes me money and they are being unreasonable about paying me, I will stop putting effort into helping them, but I won't go back and remove or mess up what I've already done. I gave you logins a long time ago. Do it yourself or pay me. Being as I do my best, all along, to see to it that my employers/ customers/ clients can fire me, I think saying "I won't talk to you or show up at your site until I get a cheque" is perfectly reasonable. they /can/ keep their shit running if they want to do the work, I'm not going back and sabotaging anything they thought they had working already. Every time I've said "No, I wont help you until you sent me my past due payments" I've gotten paid. Usually via a cheque in a fedex overnight package. And in my experience, it's only seen as being kinda rude and difficult rather than the bridge burning that "pay me or I will take down your shit" is. The problem is that you /really/ don't want a reputation as a guy who goes back and messes things up. This makes future employers /extremely frightened/ > Then he did the stupid thing and gave the > new guy at his old job the login and password to update the site, which > the guy then immediately changed and then yanked his copyright info off > the main page. In the kid's place, I'd have focused on this part. "Hey, I put in all that free time to help you out... can you leave some kind of credit on the website, so I can more easily use it in my portfolio?" Old people like helping young people out with their careers, generally speaking. The thing is, when you are young, generally you don't get paid much in terms of cash, compared to what you will get paid later on. I'd been working as a computer guy for three years before I got any more than min. wage, and at first I didn't even get that. when you are at that scale, you should be focusing on the value of your experience over what you are getting paid. Sure, I could have worked at a fast food place and made a little more per hour, maybe, but my lifetime earnings are much better because I allowed myself to be 'exploited' as my stepmother put it. In the first years of your career, focus on doing things that look cool on your resume, and focus on getting good recommendations. If you do those things, you will be in a position to ask for the big bucks in a few years. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
