men who go into business with their wifes

[backbreaker]

for the love of fvcking god why lol? unless your wife is a widower who has a ****load of money and is financing the entire business.. why? why would you possibly do this?

i have this client, his name is jason. i personally like jason and that is the Only fvckign reason i am up at 12:30am working to get this **** done for him per his deadline otherwise i woudl told him and his wife to kick rocks. he owns a slew of projects that i have done for him and a few of his clients.

jason got a pretty unique idea for a new site about 3 months ago and called me up and we got on it. everything is going freaking great, into he got the freaking bright idea to bring his wife onbord as an equal partner of the site. this **** has made my life a living hell lol.

I want to preface this by saying some of my best clients are women. I have a woman in NY i have built a few sites for, just tells me what she wants and wires money to my bank and doesn't bother me and tells me to show it to her when it's done. i have a client here in LA that is a woman, though she is picky is extremely detailed and lets you know exactly what she wants and she has a sound vision of what she wants. I am not saying women are bad clients. I am sayihng do not go into business with someone you are fvcking. my wife does things for me that help me with my business, picks up / cashes checks, **** she knows enough about what I do to where she can actually send directions to my grahpic people if need be she has done it before but she has zero say in how i actually run my business.

this woman, has no fvcking concept of how consumers think whatsoever. this ***** is more concerned about the amount of bells and whistles she can add to the site than making the site profitable, she is over complicating the site, i have told him that quite bluntly and he knows im' right so now, instead of me doing what i know is right and what he knows is right, we have to come to a functional agreement to make her happy and i am having to come up with the wireframes of some reprogrammed halfed assed solution which is only half assed so that she can be happy by saying she got what she wanted. for absolutely no other vcking reas9on beucase he doesn't want to piss off the woman he's fvcking.

this woman has turned a truly good idea into a something that is too complex for it's own good, i mean we are getting paid either way but ti's the principle of the matter. all of his other sites are pretty well off and now this one wont'[ be and now he will associate me with his ****ty sales site lol.

 

[Heretolearn]

for the love of fvcking god why lol? unless your wife is a widower who has a ****load of money and is financing the entire business.. why? why would you possibly do this?

i have this client, his name is jason. i personally like jason and that is the Only fvckign reason i am up at 12:30am working to get this **** done for him per his deadline otherwise i woudl told him and his wife to kick rocks. he owns a slew of projects that i have done for him and a few of his clients.

jason got a pretty unique idea for a new site about 3 months ago and called me up and we got on it. everything is going freaking great, into he got the freaking bright idea to bring his wife onbord as an equal partner of the site. this **** has made my life a living hell lol.

I want to preface this by saying some of my best clients are women. I have a woman in NY i have built a few sites for, just tells me what she wants and wires money to my bank and doesn't bother me and tells me to show it to her when it's done. i have a client here in LA that is a woman, though she is picky is extremely detailed and lets you know exactly what she wants and she has a sound vision of what she wants. I am not saying women are bad clients. I am sayihng do not go into business with someone you are fvcking. my wife does things for me that help me with my business, picks up / cashes checks, **** she knows enough about what I do to where she can actually send directions to my grahpic people if need be she has done it before but she has zero say in how i actually run my business.

this woman, has no fvcking concept of how consumers think whatsoever. this ***** is more concerned about the amount of bells and whistles she can add to the site than making the site profitable, she is over complicating the site, i have told him that quite bluntly and he knows im' right so now, instead of me doing what i know is right and what he knows is right, we have to come to a functional agreement to make her happy and i am having to come up with the wireframes of some reprogrammed halfed assed solution which is only half assed so that she can be happy by saying she got what she wanted. for absolutely no other vcking reas9on beucase he doesn't want to piss off the woman he's fvcking.

this woman has turned a truly good idea into a something that is too complex for it's own good, i mean we are getting paid either way but ti's the principle of the matter. all of his other sites are pretty well off and now this one wont'[ be and now he will associate me with his ****ty sales site lol.

business answer - make clear to him your concerns/risks/effects although you will do what the customer wants. I.e Make them take full responsibility for over-riding your recommendations

normal answer - what intrigues me is what does the guy see in the girl in general? In a business partnership or is this a write off project to keep her happy?

 

[AAAgent]

Any business or venture should always have a clear leader/vision. When you bring another leader of the same level with their own vision things get distorted no matter what. I can be a leader with a great vision or a great follower, but what i'm horrible at doing is being a partner since i will always have my vision of whats best.

 

[SoSuave666]

Of course she wants bells/whistles up the wazoo. Has she ever been in a position of power like this before? Is this just a case of some guy willingly giving up half of his stake in a business in order to make his stay-at-home wife happy by giving her some power? Does she invest money into the business at the same rate that he does? Partnerships should only be considered between two people who share the same end vision and have limited resources, that when brought together, form a full business unit. Of course they don't need to see eye to eye on every single thing, but more times than not they need to agree. If she's going to become a constant problem for him, too bad for him.

Your job is your job, bb. I know you agree with that, that the end result is going to be exactly what they ask for whether or not you agree with their strategy.

 

[sodbuster]

What would you talk about? How was your day honey? YOU WERE THERE DUMBAZZ! When YOU are the boss,will your wife be able to accept it? Or does she think she's actually an equal[like in marriage]?

 

[Bible_Belt]

I know one successful husband and wife business. But they are salespeople, and they keep their clients separate.

That same couple, back in the 90's day trading fad, tried to be a husband and wife day trading team in the office where I worked. They fought constantly. The only reason we didn't kick them out is that they paid so much in commissions. She'd say a stock looked good and he'd buy it. Then it would go down and she would start b!tching "I didn't tell you to buy it. I just said it looked good. You didn't have to buy it."

In any endeavor, there has to be one person in charge. Ships don't have two Captains.

 

[FairShake]

I know quite a few husband and wife teams in successful businesses. I also know quite a few where the business killed the marriage.

The ones that survive and thrive tend to have a pattern. The husband is often either a rough blue-collar alpha type or a geeky guy who is very good at their trade. But their people and organizational skills aren't the best. Their wives tend to do things like office management, sales, and, of course, schmoozing with clients and employees. They pick up where the other ends, which is always good for a solid partnership be it marriage or business.

 

[AW1983]

Jesus, LTR's/marriages are tough enough without involving a business element. Sorry to say, but anyone that does this is a fool.

 

[backbreaker]

lol when we started this project, i generally get half down half when done. and this guy he trusts me we have done so much work together. anyway he was supposed to priority mail a check out to us and the project got delayed beucase.. get this... his wife took the car and was gone all day rotfl. and left him at home

 

[Scaramouche]

Dear B squared,
Or should I call you B Cubed?
In general what you say is right,however remember the ninth Maxim of Scaramouche,in general any partnership depends on mutual superiority,destroy that and you are in the deepest Pooh Pooh!.......On the business front such partnerships between a Man and a Woman,clearly can work,the caveat being that the mutually separate responsibilities,are clearly demarcated and the other partner never intrudes....Over time inevitably things go wrong and the partnership dissolves..I digress:It is a truism of life,Scarras 15th Maxim,I think....That technical (practical) ability in the workplace rarely go hand in hand with Social and financial Skills....When I was a very young Man a hundred years ago I worked in Sydney for Jews(Interesting race)one of the partners was a technical turmagent,never left the office,even at weekends...constantly racing around from desk to desk sorting things out,abusing people...those were the days before calculating machines,once he threw a Bill of Quantities at me because he had sniffed out an arithmetical mistake in what must have been several thousand correct calculations!...The mother fornicating mongrel could add double columns of figures at once upside down...
The other Partner was just the exact opposite...Dignified,charming,snappiest dresser you ever saw....Cravat,butterfly collar,tie pin,Savile Row suit,Italian shoes...A man of commanding presence,a Man for all men,he would swap filthy jokes with us young blokes...then go off to a Soiree with the State Governor ....He was a Jewish,Freemason,probably a Homosexual, who socialised with the Archbishop of Sydney(That Takes Arsve)...He was a Member of every Club in Town and here is the clincher he got the Work...all of it....though he never did a scrap of work himself....Who was the more valuable of the two? answer,him!....Donkeys are fifteen to the dozen,Men like him are like Rocking Horse Doo-Das.