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That sounds like just about any project people do.
If the contract ain't set in stone and theres no good PM/PO it'll go down hill real fast.
You should probably know, just to make you feel worse, the reason y'all couldn't drop it is probably because they hadn't paid anything yet. 😂
Its a common occurrence to pay half or some deposit amount up front, and to just never pay the remainder. -
well it's free dev work. They're not wasting any money.
Think of one good reason why they would give up on ANY of their screwed up ideas, when they have a guy, working for free, able to make it happen.
Charity is good, but you also need to move on with life, man.
Also, which charity it is is not important. I have vouched to never donate to large famous charity organizations because they're very good at pissing money and getting little done. Since they're not "for profit", they don't care about being optimized. Their infrastructure is dirty, branches never want to cooperate, everyone is a lazy fuck. The "non-profit" is only on paper. Almost everyone's in for some of that sweet free money juice.
I'd rather fund small groups as direct as possible. -
First of all, it was very kind and selfless of you to help out a charity and not to abandon your tutor.
However, you are not obligated to do a damned thing. This project sounds bad. Move on. Do something that pays you at least.
If you want to help out charities there are thousands that need help and you can volunteer your time in many different ways without dealing with issues like this.
Save yourself.
If you don't want to back out, decide on a scope that will meet the Charity's need, get them to agree to that scope, deliver, and conclude the project. -
@D--M the thing is, they got the site for free. 😐😐
God save us all from JS 😑
Similarities between this spider and me:
- We both are web developers
- We both live in same room
- We both tr...
Now then... where do I begin 😐
TLDR - fuck charity
A bit of backstory first, I was in my first year of college when I started this project for this charity.
It started in December of last year, my tutor approached me and asked if I’d like a project to work on, for my portfolio and what not, I agreed as I thought it would be a great opportunity. Saying yes to that question is my biggest regret so far. Oh boy the pain it has caused me.
The projected started a few days after I agreed. The stack and stuff was already agreed upon by my tutors higher ups. The stack was Wordpress and a theme called ‘X theme’ I understand the use for Wordpress, they are a non tech savvy client, it will be easy for them to manage.
The project was to basically modernise the current site the charity had, simple task you might think... ohhhh no. We agreed upon a deadline, January of 2017 (spoiler, we didn’t make that headline). However the charity wanted change, after change, after change, after change, after fucking change. Every time I’d show them the new revision it was never right, they’d always want another change.
Once we hit the deadline I asked my tutor if we could just drop it. His higher ups said we had to keep going (I could of abandoned my tutor and left him to do it but I’m not a prick). Anyway, we are now in November of 2017, a whole fucking year later and the site has only just been handed off. A WHOLE FUCKING YEAR OF THIS MOTHER FUCKING COCK SUCKING PRICK WHO WOULDN’T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER.
Please may god be with me as we have to provide support for this site 😥😥
If anyone’s really curious as to which charity it is or the site. I’ll post it in the comments if you ask nicely enough
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