THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Beardo on October 15, 2008, 03:36:41 PM
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Our company has some freelancers dong some work for my department. To make a really long story short, the freelancer is holding the work hostage until he gets paid. Completely understandable, and he'll eventually get paid. The problem is that I need this work to do my work that we are showing some big wigs this weekend. I'm stuck.
Is this common?
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common that freelancers often get ripped off yeah
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Our company has some freelancers dong some work for my department. To make a really long story short, the freelancer is holding the work hostage until he gets paid. Completely understandable, and he'll eventually get paid. The problem is that I need this work to do my work that we are showing some big wigs this weekend. I'm stuck.
Is this common?
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sorry, but i loled at dong too
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The subtext is reaching him. :elephant
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Unless there is a robust agreement in place that ensures that I will get paid for work done, and I trust the company to honor this deal, sure.
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Uh. Holding work hostage?
Has anyone here every had a problem with a restaurant holding food hostage? I went in and promised I would pay, just not know, cuz I'm hungry, but in the future I'll pay.
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:( Im hungry too.
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Has anyone here every had a problem with a restaurant holding food hostage? I went in and promised I would pay, just not know, cuz I'm hungry, but in the future I'll pay.
I dunno if this is a joke but usually you pay after you get your food. ;)
He's being entirely unprofessional and should be blacklisted from any future freelancing gigs.
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As a freelancer, I've only ever withheld work until paid once. It was an instance in which I had worked with these people twice before and they had been MONTHS late paying each time. They wanted me to do another ad for them and I said sure, but told them that I only worked on contract now and that I would have to be paid half up front. They agreed, signed the contract and faxed it back to me with a copy of the check they'd cut me and told me it would be in the mail tomorrow.
So a week and a half later I'd finished their work on time but still hadn't gotten that check that was "gonna be in the mail first thing tomorrow". I called them and calmly informed them that they wouldn't be getting the work until I was paid in full since our contract had been breached. They flipped out and said they would sue me, they had mailed the check, I was trying to screw them and I hadn't done the work, blah blah blah. So I videotaped my rig playing their ad and sent them that video in an email. Two days later I got paid and told them not to call me for any future jobs.
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^ What do you do?
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Our company has some freelancers dong.
Is this common?
This works.
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^ What do you do?
Edit commercials and corporate video presentations, training videos and the like.
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common that freelancers often get ripped off yeah
pretty much. i'm doing freelancing right now, and i still haven't been paid by a client. it's been over a month now. i don't blame the guy holding the work hostage.