[consulting] Failed Outsourcing Job

[Dave Terry]

Turn the question around -

What do *you* think is the fair and ethical thing to do?

Was the person who signed your contract naive to commit to an "all or
nothing" hard deadline?  Absolutely.  Personally, if I was planning on
re-purposing some of the work that was performed I would want to pay the
person. No offense, but there are always two sides to every situation like
this. Would it make a difference if the person had health issues around the
deadline or there were circumstances beyond their control?


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Fred Jones <fredthejonester at gmail.com>wrote:

> A question of legality and ethics: I hired an outsourcer (from
> freelancer.com) to make a D7 theme. The deal was crystal clear that he
> has until the deadline to finish it 100% or I pay nothing and he
> agreed to that.
>
> He has done about 80-85% of it but no more than that. So I will not
> pay him and that's that.
>
> But he put in download links on the Appearance page and so I
> downloaded his work and I have it. I could now finish it myself and
> hire another person to finish it and pay them $100 instead of the $500
> that he was supposed to get.
>
> Question is should I just take it and run because we never clarified
> who owns anything and he *did* make it downloadable. Or perhaps I
> should tell him that I will pay him $100 and take his code and if he
> accepts, then OK.
>
> I don't want to continue with him because he clearly can not finish
> the job--he keeps asking me to review it and the dropdown menus are
> wrong each time plus 30 other details that he just can't get right.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> Fred
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