NOT TO SUE
I hate one thing about myself, and that is the way I try to avoid problems. I'm an introvert, and for that reason, I hate and avoid anything that would draw attention to me. This attitude of mine has made a lot of people take advantage of me and go Scott free knowing I won't retaliate. Although I don't even feel the urge to retaliate most of the time, and during the times I want to, I tell myself I can live without it. I shared a little bit of the story I shared on my blog yesterday. It made me remember some bad experiences I've encountered in life, and if I'm to be honest, I nearly cried while writing it. If you like you can read about it here. With no further ado, this was what happened once upon a time in my life.
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Some years back, my roommate got a gig to develop a website. The plan the person awarding the contract had in mind was so big that they needed a web and graphics designer for the project. My roommate knew we both needed the money and decided it was best we did it together. I was the only one with an old and slow PC, and because he did not have a working PC, we decided to share mine working side by side. We took turns on the job, moving from place to place looking for light and worked while the other slept. At the beginning of the project I told my roommate that we needed to sign a contract agreement with the guy giving us the contract, but he refused saying he had known the guy for years and had done similar projects for him.
I agreed because truly I knew that he had done similar projects for him, but I felt safer with a contract agreement. Moving forward I had other small gigs during that period. I was trying to raise money for my school fees because exams were fast approaching, but because my laptop was always in use for this project, I had to stop taking in those small gigs hoping this big one would pay. I was expecting nothing less than 250,000 naira from this job, and the guy looked ready to pay when the job was over. Unfortunately, after we finished the job, he started avoiding my calls seeing I had finished my part. He never knew the web developer was my roommate, and when my roommate confronted him for not picking up my calls, he started avoiding my roommate too.
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The time came for us to collect our pay, the guy was nowhere to be found. As a matter of fact, he left the city of Port Harcourt and was completely cut off from everyone. Turned out we weren't the only ones he pulled that stunt on and a lot of people were looking for him. He's not paying us for our job made me almost drop out of school (a story I shared yesterday). At the end of the day, we saw him 3 months later. My roommate wanted to get him arrested, but I told him to let him go. I still see him at least every week since that day, but decided it wasn't worth it. At least I got what I wanted, which was my school fees, but he doesn't have the guts to look me in the eye after that incident.
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We introvert and avoiding problems are 5 and 6 😅 but most of the time I see it as a good thing. Your experience is one of the nightmares of freelancing and working for Nigerian clients, many of them are the equivalent of demons. One thing I have learned from people's experiences is to always collect half payment before any work can start
I have not tried that nonsense after such experience
That Kind of person can never make it far in life if you are ripping people off their sweat, I believe he will receive his judgement soon
Well, whatever happens to him isn't really my problem...
It must have been frustrating to go through that experience. Especially when you were relying on that income for your school fees. But your decision to let go and focus on what was most important to you is commendable.
Thank you. It's wasn't easy though
These experiences often make us grow as people and strengthen us, after this situation I'm sure you became stronger for future situations, and often we can't always believe in people, although these people often help us. They seem to be good people with good intentions. I really enjoyed your sharing
Yes you are right, I have grown. Thanks for stopping by
The thing is, I can totally relate with you. So sorry you had to go through that, I really detest people like that guy. They cheat people intentionally and in one way or the other, get away with it. If there is anything like karma, I do hope it meets up with him and show him pepper in life.
Isn't it too much curse 😂, although he deserves it, but I'm over it
Lol, you are such a kind person, that is very nice.