I need some advice... ( Archived) (14)

Today something strange happened. Two of my friends had to translate some scientific papers and i told them i could translate them. That was at the start of this month. They told me the had a deadline which was the end of this month. I told them 5 days before that i was too busy and i couldn't do it for them. And today one of them came, angry, and told me i should have let them now earlier that i can't do the task...She also told me the deadline was 20 of the month not 30. I told her that the other friend said the task was for the 30th. She didn't replied and left...


Who's wrong in this situation. I notified them early enough...

So, about a week after they asked you to translate the papers, you thought it through
and let them know that you wouldn't have time to do it. That would have been about
on the 8th of June. They have a week now to get the job done.

Sounds like a complicated mess. Doesn't sound like you did anything wrong. You
thought about it and it was going to be too much to do at this time for you.

Maybe you could help them find someone who could do the job for them. Ask around.
If you apologized and have taken some kind of action to help them, Let it go.
If they choose to be angry - that is theirs to embrace.
Unless, of course, you did have the time.

Please forgive me if I haven't fully understood this. But 5 days before the deadline is rather late. You had cut it a bit fine to tell them then as they must feel they haven't enough time to find an alternative. I appreciate they would be angry but maybe their response to you was a little harsh. Having said that, the all-encompassing fact is that they were up against a deadline. Deadlines HAVE TO BE met!! I know that only too well, the pressure is immense, it has simply had the usual knock-on effect to you?? Mind you, they really shouldn't bring the target date forward as such short notice, though it may be that couldn't be avoided, that instruction would have come from elsewhere, where they clearly have to be accountable, hence, again, the knowck-on effect.
JMO.

They told me the deadline was at the 30 of this month. But today they told me it was 20. They didn't even knew for sure when the deadline was.

hi algarion,couldnt it be a fairly straightforward job on computer that they could do themselves?

Hi there! I don't know...The thing is they told me a wrong deadline. It was not my fault. So i guess a friendship ends today. But one of the two insulted my dignity. And i am not that kind of person....It's unfair....

Well, as I say they did leave it late to bring the target date forward. If they can't see that?? They do need to take responsibility for that, so no its not fair on you!!

They brought it upon themselves ,because they weren't willing to do it with there own brain.

What's what i believe...Thank you Urhotman. Come on let's dring a cold beer and forget...