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I have a story to tell and I was kind of the Mark in your story. Except my brother was on the other end of the story and he got it all wrong which turned in bot
by rmetzler 9y ago
I have a story to tell and I was kind of the Mark in your story. Except my brother was on the other end of the story and he got it all wrong which turned in both of us not talking with each other for more than a year. It wasn't a good time in my life and it's really hard to write about it.
It also wasn't the first time, I was part of something, putting much work into the project and got fired from it. It's not nice to get fired after you volunteered to help someone with their project. Selfish people seem to think the success is their own and they own the project, because they had the idea, not recognizing that success is a team effort.
Ok, my story: my brother is a lawyer, I'm a software developer. After finishing his degree, he decided to start his own law firm and I helped him to create his website including SEO, etc. He became very successful more or less over night. Before we had lived together in an apartment and there were weeks when we didn't eat much except rice and fishsauce, now he had the money to buy Macs and Porsches.
The website was build with WordPress and several plugins, so I thought my job was it to update it as often as possible in order to not allow hackers to access his clients data or bring the site down. I didn't have any formal contract with my brother. In fact, he didn't really understood what I did - the site was finished as he saw it, why would he need an admin? He gave me gifts, often much bigger ones than I expected, but I didn't have much income. What I wanted was an income I could count on, even when it was a small one.
I made the mistake and told him, I needed a contract to provide the work so nothing would happen to the site. He understood that all wrong and thought I was threatening him and the website. He went into panic mode instantly. In his panic he even changed passwords, including the MySQL password, but didn't know that he needed to change it in the WordPress config too. This brought his website down.
Of course I helped him to recover the website, but we were mad about each other for month and didn't talk. I had a rough time, I was depressive and broke. I couldn't pay my health insurance and the fucking health insurance company was able to suspend my banking account. Not once, but thrice.
The whole fight wasn't worth it.
I know, this story doesn't has much to do with what has happend to OP, except one thing: Please try to talk to each other and understand the reasons why someone does something.