‘You’re not that busy': Freeloading bride demands 100s of hours of free labor from her old college friend, taking advantage of her wedding coordination business as if her career were just a hobby

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  • "Plan my wedding for free because you're not that busy"

    I never thought I'd have a story to post here, but here we are. I (26F) do event planning professionally. Not a huge company or anything just me,
  • working freelance and building my client base. I've done corporate stuff, birthdays, and yes, weddings. It's a lot of work but I love it.
  • Enter my former classmate. We were friendly in uni but haven't really stayed in touch. Out of the blue, she messaged me on Instagram asking if I could help
  • with her wedding. I said sure and asked her what kind of help she was looking for. She sends me a Pinterest board with 80+ pins, talks about a guest list of 150+, and said she needs someone to coordinate everything start to finish.
  • Cool, I'm excited because that's a full wedding package so I send her my rates. Cue the audacity.
  • She replies with Wait, you're charging? I thought you'd be cool enough to help a friend out. You're always posting about having light weeks anyway.
  • The the one almost made me sad. It's not like you're a real company or anything. Come on, girl. Just help me out and I'll give you a shoutout on IG.
  • A shoutout, for 6+ months of planning and literal hundreds of hours of work.
  • When I told her I only work for pay, she got angry and said I clearly don't value friendship, and blocked me.
  • Anyway, thanks for the reminder, that my time and skills are apparently only worth a tag and a thank you post.
  • MeanTelevision Good riddance. If you tell her no she has a hissy and blocks you. Then she's only interested in using you.
  • emsaywhat Sounds like you definitely aren't losing anything of value
  • knitpurlknitoops You can't pay your electric bill with friendship and IG mentions.
  • hopeful_tatertot If someone posted about having "light weeks" I'd assume that meant they might have the capacity to take on another paying client not a freeloader lol
  • Redditress428 If she thought you were such great friends, why didn't she invite you to the wedding?
  • Greenman... Tell her $10K and a shoutout on Instagram (don't know what you actually charge). Every referral off that post (use code word "stuck up b ") and you'll send her $100, up
  • to 110 people. That's 100 guaranteed referrals and if she really valued a prop up on her IG, then that's an easy way to eventually get it for free and possibly make $1000. But she knows it ain't worth that.
  • Cranjesmcbasketball1 Awful person, she did you a favor by blocking you but I bet you gave her super fair rates and once she figures that out she may come crawling back. If she does, please post an update.
  • Radiant-Cost-2355 She thought the friendship was strong enough for YOU to do 6 months and hundreds of hours of work for FREE, but not strong enough to survive you setting one boundary. User and borderline scammer.

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