Got hired by a company. Their iOS application was shit and client was breathing down their neck. Basically got their application up to scratch. Now everything is stable and client is happy. And I get laid off + They owe me two months of pay. All I get from them are excuses. What is the lesson here?

That homicide is sometimes an option?

That contracts are important, wether you're hired as a 3rd party or an employee. Join a union

Unfortunately, in some parts of the world, that's the life of a Dev.

No contract ?

@dude3003 Contract but I am not in a first world country exactly.

Release the code on Github and pastebin :-D
And announce a bug bounty on darknet :-D

@mt3o what's a bugbounty?:)

@japsel usually is a kind of contest where programmers, or rather hackers, from around the world are invited to test and find bugs and report them to get $ and fame. But this time rather that reporting the bug, bad guys would exploit the bug and gain some fame. With fun instead of cash.

Google has such program (bug bounty) for Chrome. It's quite popular idea.

Leave a kill switch in the application, something you can do externally that when triggered causes the app to die?

If you got the source, make it public if they dont pay up.

@nmunro that, however fair, is rather illegal.

@mt3o He said he wasn't exactly under first world employment law, the company I worked for opened an Indian branch and when my company failed to pay the employees broke in after hours and asset stripped the office. We had no real means to prosecute them.

@nmunro This is a good idea for future.

Guess that's why their IOS app was crap in the first place

If it happens with me, I pay attention to contract for next time so that if I don't get paid I go to Ministory of labor (or what ever they call it) this will urge them to pay even after a while.
I'm also in a third world country, but from what I've heard ministy of labor actually does something

@nmunro prosecute them? I doubt whatever they took from the office is more than their salary ...

Het paid upfront

Why did you get laid off? (Real interest)

Don't fuck with iOS

Contracts are important but unfortunately in some countries it's not always possible . If you don't wanna be the bad guy (hacking and stuff) just ask for a portion of money whenever you finish a task/module .

Going postal is a good thing

@meseguer1998 because his job was done and they didnt wanna pay would be my guess

@meseguer1998 Was told that they were in a bind financially and could not afford me. They were also very sorry for not telling me earlier. Poor them really. What could have they done?

The lesson is how to use small claims court.