borked

if you were paid money to do a job, you do it, or you refund the money. If the guy that hired the programmer disappears for a while, why should he not expect a fully funcitoning what-was-paid-for script when he comes back?

I bought a second house two years ago, a new construction... I paid up a third for the order, a third midway, and a third on completion. The entire process took 14 months. The deadline was 12 months. That last third had 10k deducted from it for being late. But on payment of the third, the house keys were handed over to me.

If I'd have disappeared for 12 months dead, the constructor would have still handed over the keys to me, but one day over 12 months from completion date they'd have taken ownership of the house and I've have lost 2/3rds of the cost.

It's called a contract and most work the same way - you expect work to get done, not fucked around. In either direction, the one doing the fucking around will pay the price.

To me, it looks like the programmer was the one fucking around and *nothing* in this thread tells me otherwise.

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