On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:51:02 -0500, tom wrote: > The sequence goes like this: > 1) When there is little or no money to be made, you start out with an > implied status as a partner. This means you work long + extra hours for > little pay on the promise that you will be rewarded when/if success comes.
Well, customers are NOT partners. You need a contract when you deal with customers. It is not a team work, it is selling and buying. And you are selling. This is a third year that I am working as a freelance, and, during unofficial conversations with customers representatives, I have heard many phrases like: "I am your ally", "covering your back", "we are the team", and I never fell for any of them. I agreed in general, never been impolite, but went on my way. And I never forgot, neither let customers forget, that I am selling, and they are buying, and we are not the team. DG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list