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Originally Posted by jcsike
We hired this programmer about 4 months ago for a job that was about 7k total. Database/admin/api. It was set so that 3 things would get done about 2 weeks apart, so for a total of 6 weeks.
At this point, nothing is done yet that we can use, and we get a vague, ?it will get done tonight? but that has been happening for weeks. He seems to have a lot done and my guess is that its 80% there, as Ive looked at the code and it looks like it makes sense. The thing is we need it done now and every day its just a little longer. Im ready to cut this guy off and use somebody else, but we already paid him 4k and he is sort of holding us hostage. Hes a nice guy and always answers his phone, its just I don?t think hes made any deadlines and its driving me crazy
i have not gone through this much stress in some time. should we pull the code from him and give it to somebody else to finish?
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Sounds amateur. I used to use that line, but that was years back when I didn't know my shit and thought I did. The best thing to do with him if he's sort of "holding the keys" to getting this done is to work with him on a time frame, and tell him, "I know you can't get this done tonight, so what is a logical timeframe that we can give you to see this thing done and over with?" "we need it by this date... What date can we see this all working?"
It will make him feel a little more secure about delivering and he won't jump towards the "I'll do it tonight" spiel
