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Originally Posted by CPHoya
Systo, after reading everything you've said in this thread I have three things to say:
1. If you're fortunate, you're in on what appears to at least be approximately the ground floor of a possibly-illegal scheme built partially upon government incentive opportunism. My immediate instinct is you may be endeavoring upon a project similar to the situation presented in Chip's Lithuanian plot detour in The Corrections.
2. If you're really fortunate, you're in on what appears to at least be approximately the ground floor of a completely legal and very pie in the sky company run by a chronic optimist.
3. If you're unlucky you've signed a retainer agreement that you probably cannot enforce given your nationality and/or the expense of doing so, and the likely "judgment proof" - read: broke - status of the company you're working for nearly guarantees that you will not be compensated or retained, and that there will be nothing for you to do about it.
I am, of course, a pessimist. I wish you the best and applaud your courage. I think you should be sure you leave college on good terms, though. May come in handy to go back.
My boss has a small company that he is looking to expand, and is heavily relying upon target community markets to be successful. He really can't afford (given his limited publicity at this point) to have someone publicly derailing him, calling him a scam artist, and pursuing him in court because he made a bunch of legal agreements that he couldn't uphold himself.
I have talked to legal consult myself who have said that the paperwork that I have signed does appear to be legally binding and legitimate, but yes, enforcing it if it is broken is going to be difficult considering one particular circumstance I cant mention here. (its not earth shattering or anything it just makes pursuing him legally very impractical and very likely not cost-efficient).
I will say this - if the guy is a scammer, then he has done a darn good job of creating a scam that he gets absolutely no benefit out of doing other being able to laugh at me that I fell for it.
If this doesn't work out in the summer, I come right back home and go right back to school next fall like nothing ever happened.