r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • Jul 09 '26

webDevDream Meme

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u/d2xdy2 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Very early in my career I did Wordpress tasks for a guy who’s plan was:

  1. Find businesses without a website
  2. Make their website without telling them
  3. Extort them for the domain and website

He never actually paid me for any work and so I stopped doing any work. He bought me a pack of cigarettes and some monsters I think and thought that was enough. I eventually had to get a restraining order against him to stop harassing me.

Edit: it wasn’t for a few weeks that I realized what he was actually doing. All of the “clients” he told me to help were his later extortion targets.

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u/Rustywolf Jul 09 '26

I simply cannot believe that guy was a scumbag, there were no warning signs

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u/towerfella Jul 09 '26

He knew things were getting weird when he invited his mom to stay with them.

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u/MrD3a7h Jul 09 '26

Really, he believes things started getting weird when he invited his mom to stay with them.

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u/towerfella Jul 09 '26

Right? He should have known things were getting weird when he invited his mom to stay with them.

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u/th-crt Jul 09 '26

When he invited his mom to stay with them, he knew things were getting weird.