Warning. No onsite communication seen on your vWorker.com project recently

Warning. No onsite communication seen on your vWorker.com project recently

Note: the links below are generic and don't reflect the links YOU would use for your particular project. Please refer to the email you received for the actual links.

Dear John Employer,

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Note: Please ignore this message if you are doing your communication onsite (and either temporarily paused work or were waiting on a response from the other party). You can disable this email from being sent to you in the future on this project via the disable link near the bottom of the message.
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This an automated email to warn you that we haven't seen any recent onsite communication from you in the last 3 days regarding project "Finish / Enhance VB 6 project(repost)" located at http://www.vWorker.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=92915

If you are working with the other party and simply communicating offsite, then you are unnecessarily putting yourself into a dangerous position. While all onsite changes and additions are a part of the legally binding contract, nothing communicated offsite is legally binding. This is due to the fact that offsite communication can be easily falsified (even by a novice) and is indistinguishable from a legitimate offsite communication.

If a dispute occurs and this project goes into arbitration, you will have no legally binding proof to backup your claims and may be put yourself at an unnecessary disadvantage. If you are an employer, this could mean that features the worker agreed to do for you offsite, could be neglected, and if the project goes to arbitration, you would still be forced to pay the worker full price. If you are a worker, this could mean that a reduction in the requirements agreed to by the employer offsite could be disputed by the employer in arbitration, and because the reduction wasn't documented on site, you would be found at fault for not delivering to your contract. These are just two of many "bad" things that can happen when you don't document requirements and deadline changes onsite.

To correct this situation:

1) Immediately document any changes to the original contract (requirements, deadlines, etc.) onsite and ask the other party to agree to the posting. This not only protects both of you but is also a good communications enhancer because it lets both of you reaffirm what was agreed upon.

2) From now on, communicate exclusively on the site. OR...if you feel you MUST use an offsite communication channel then just remember to always follow it up by doing just as you did in #1. After you complete your offsite conversation, immediately document all the changes that you've both agreed to onsite, and then get the other party to post back a response saying that they agree to it. Again this not only protects both of you but is also a good communications enhancer because it lets both of you reaffirm what was agreed upon.

For more information on this topic (and other items that are crucial to your success on the site) please see the following links:
(for employers:)
http://www.vWorker.com/RentACoder/SoftwareEmployers/Articles/RacEmails/CrucialInformation.asp#1

(for workers:)
http://www.vWorker.com/RentACoder/SoftwareWorkers/Articles/RacEmails/CrucialInformation.asp#1

If you have any questions, on this or anything else, please don't hesitate to contact us at facilitator at http://www.vWorker.com/RentACoder/misc/Feedback.asp

Sincerely,
Zoe Edgington
vWorker.com Facilitator
Contact a facilitator / Ask questions: http://www.vWorker.com/RentACoder/misc/Feedback.asp
Phone: (813) 908-9029
Fax: (813) 960-1495

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To disable this notification from being sent to you ever again on this project click here: http://www.vWorker.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ChangeNotification_NoOnSiteCommunication.asp?lngBidId=1025763&blnIsEmployer=True

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Project URL: http://www.vWorker.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=92915
Date Sent: 8/16/2004 2:10:50 AM EDT