Originally Posted by garce

I signed up with Standahead when they had some French Canadian girl's website. Aubrey Something? Audrey? Don't remember - it was a long time ago.

I know Tam from PCBBS - fourteen years ago. Maybe more.

I received no help from her, no resolution to my problems with NOT getting paid buy one of her recent employers, but I do not blame her personally. Paying me was probably not one of her responsibilities. I doubt that Tam had enough influence over her bosses to force them to pay me.

When I requested payment, all she could have done was ignore me, or pay me out of her own pocket. She ignored me. Same thing that I would have done...

When you work online for other people, you take what you can get and you hope for the best. People like Tam get hired all the time to sit on the boards and publically represent companies that are, perhaps, less than honest.

Maybe. just maybe, Tam is not a thief. Maybe she just needs to pay the rent / mortgage, put food on her table, and buy clothes for her kids. Maybe she wants some kind of benefit package. Secure job offers are very hard to turn down - particularly in this business.

I honestly do not think that Tam is going out of her way to fuck people over. She wants to make a living.

I have no idea, though. Maybe I'm blinded by that old PCBBS magic. I do not think that Tam is maliciously going from company to company, advising them on how to rip of surfers and webmasters.

P.S. Standahead: Aubrey Rose! Right? Am I right? That was so long ago...