Comments on: Choose your bedfellows carefully

By: Harold

Harold — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:09:32 +0000

Chris, I too have been screwed by small companies. The issue with large corporations is that you are not working as equals, but according to a written contract, and the legal constraints that go with it. What I find with large corporations is that you can have a contractual relationship, and even a good one, but not a human relationship between equals. Even though the corporation has the status of a person, you cannot have a real relationship with it.
In a partnering context, as opposed to a client relationship, I still prefer dealing with micro-enterprises.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:49:38 +0000

I don’t disagree with you in principle, Harold, but in my ten years’ experience — for what it’s worth — I’ve never been screwed by a coroporation (I’m talking about small businesses of 10-100 employees). Micro-enterprises (1 to 5 employees) are much, much more likely to not pay a bill.

By: Rob Paterson

Rob Paterson — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:31:16 +0000

So true Harold! It was a shock to me when I discovered years ago that it is impossible for an individual to have a relationship with a person who represents a corporation. The power differentials and the interests diverge too much.