[consulting] Working with anonymous contractors

[Jakob Persson]

I can see legitimate reasons for not providing someone, an unknown 
business partner, a scanned copy of my ID due to privacy concerns. If 
you're a contractor and want to be and appear legit, make sure you have 
a good website, provide a real address and a phone number and call your 
client and speak to them in person - that builds trust and tells the 
client way more about you than a scanned copy of your passport or ID.

We should all be careful who we work with and what we tell them about 
ourselves. People are scared of what Facebook might do with our personal 
information, yet businesses regularly ask customers to email copies of 
passports and even credit cards (yes, this is true!). Trust is a two way 
street so you should equally forthcoming about who you are as a client 
as you expect your contractors to be.

I also think the wish to be anonymous has more to do with avoiding taxes 
than having done time in the slammer. :)


Best regards,

Jakob Persson



paola.dimaio at gmail.com wrote:
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>
>
>     You may get a more useful response if you elaborate on "things".  ;)
>
>
> Yes, apologies. I mean there is always some job to be done. I ll post 
> again about this when existing consultants cant fulfil some of the  
> assignments for some reason..
>
>
>
>     > After advertising on the site I got contacted (among others) by
>     a developer
>     > who said he was only going to work anonymously. I was not to
>     know his
>     > identity, and he would give me a good discount.Hellow????Do I
>     want to give
>     > the keys to my estate not knowing who the guy is??Is this guy a real
>     > developer, a drupal adventurer, or someone who is ashamed to
>     show his face
>     > for whatever reason?
>
>     I'd recommend staying as far away from that as possible.  If you don't
>     know why he wants to remain anonymous, you may as well assume the
>     worst,
>     at least that's what I'd do.  How do you know this guy's not a wanted
>     criminal?  You don't.  If you're working in the realm of legitimate
>     business, you don't want to get involved.
>
>     Even if this person has a legitimate reason for remaining anonymous,
>     there's no accountability there.  Individuals need to be (or at least
>     should be) held accountable for what they do.
>
>
> I am glad you think so. I have asked the polite people who have made 
> themselves available to
> supply veryfiable credentials, and  a scanned copy of their ID (of 
> course that could be faked too, but I dont think that anyone is that 
> malicious). Some had not problem straight away, these are the people 
> who have the keys to the site.  One or two guys were reticent, one 
> explicitly said he wanted to work anonymously. Nay. I dont see that as 
> an option. Development can wait til we find someone we are confortable 
> with.
>
> cheers
> pdm
>
>
>     -c.
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