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The friend is taking a cut because he introduced me to the client and kind of provided me with the opportunity to work. He is rarely involved. I send him invoi

The friend is taking a cut because he introduced me to the client and kind of provided me with the opportunity to work. He is rarely involved. I send him invoice monthly, and if I get stuck on some technical things he guides me a little (this have happened around 3-4 times in the whole year, so to give you an idea). He doesn't even have the domain knowledge of projects I am working on for his client. "just notify the client to update your bank account details and they will start paying you directly" I don't think this is ethical, especially with your friend. This would result in a bad relationship between us or the end of it. We've been friends since childhood.

SwiftyBug 6y ago
Is this person really your friend? If I "provided opportunity" for a friend I would never ask for a commission from his earnings. Actually, I did exactly that twice last month because I want my friends to have work and I trust their work. Even if I did ask for a commission, I'd arrange it so he'd pay me only a percentage of what he made the first month or a single fixed fee. What your friend is doing sounds a lot like pimping. If you've been friends since childhood something like that should not be enough to end your friendship. Of course I'm making many assumptions here, but that sounds abusive. You are afraid you will lose your friend if you ask to receive full payment for a work you put on on your own, with zero input form him. You are doing the work and you should be receiving the money. Even if you two have an arrangement of you paying a fee for the leads he generates to you, his cut should be much, much smaller.
bluGill 6y ago
Traditionally in these arrangements you give them 6 months to recoup the cost of introducing you and then you can work directly. But that is when there isn't friendship on the line.

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The friend is taking a cut because he introduced me to the client and kind of provided me with the opportunity to work. He is rarely involved. I send him invoi

by 2bor-2n 6y ago

SwiftyBug 6y ago
Is this person really your friend? If I "provided opportunity" for a friend I would never ask for a commission from his earnings. Actually, I did exactly that twice last month because I want my friends to have work and I trust their work. Even if I did ask for a commission, I'd arrange it so he'd pay me only a percentage of what he made the first month or a single fixed fee. What your friend is doing sounds a lot like pimping. If you've been friends since childhood something like that should not be enough to end your friendship. Of course I'm making many assumptions here, but that sounds abusive. You are afraid you will lose your friend if you ask to receive full payment for a work you put on on your own, with zero input form him. You are doing the work and you should be receiving the money. Even if you two have an arrangement of you paying a fee for the leads he generates to you, his cut should be much, much smaller.
bluGill 6y ago
Traditionally in these arrangements you give them 6 months to recoup the cost of introducing you and then you can work directly. But that is when there isn't friendship on the line.