These people have never worked with an engineer before, they are academics or ex-sales. They hired me for direction and structure, since except for one person I had more technical experience than all of them put together. Then they got pissy and insulted when I told them the things that had to change. Eventually everyone ganged up on me and I left / was fired.
They owed me substantial money at that point, almost $15k. I said I would return the much less valuable laptop, which had nothing of significance on it anyway, when I got paid. Lots for whining about "ransom" and legal threats followed and I blocked them. In the end I did send it the next day, before I got the money ( which hit my account a couple days later, but it does appear that they paid the day I left).
However the package had to go ground and when it hadn't arrived in 7 days, a person in charge CALLED MY LOCAL POLICE TO FILE CHARGES. I think that says it all.
Edit: Apparently it did not say it all. I was asked to reverify this review, and I am here to state directly that while the rest is certainly my perspective and they'll tell you what a jerk I am etc, the part about calling the police is 100% true. They would say that I was ignoring their emails, which is true, but our business was concluded and I didn't want to engage further. It was 7 days, including a weekend. I left on a Tuesday, I sent the laptop Wednesday afternoon, the police called me the following Wednesday morning, though only to say that it had happened and if they were going to file charges it would have to be in their location. I have proof and would say any of this in court.
p.s. I just checked my contract. It just says that I have to return the equipment. There's no timeframe, and it doesn't say I have to answer their email.
