My friend and I have been working on an online business. We’re supposed to make an online gym with video lessons on fitness and weight lifting. We agreed in the beginning that everything would be done 50-50. Meaning we put in 50% of the work and get 50% of the profits. We would split everything down the middle. The website is not up yet; however we are done filming all the lessons.
Since we’ve started the business, I’ve put in more work than he has. I bought the camera to film, I bought the mic for sound, and I store and edit all the videos on my computer. We also have a YouTube channel with free lessons to promote the website if it goes up. I manage the YouTube channel as well as all the social media aspects of our business. He also wants me to do the legwork for getting everything taken care of legally.
I would estimate that I do 80% of the work. The only thing he does is appear in the videos that we film together. I have talked to him about pulling his weight, but he keeps making excuses. He would say that he can’t handle the social media stuff because he doesn’t have a computer so he can’t type and take care of those things. He also says that he can’t afford to buy a computer because he doesn’t have money for it. He also says that he doesn’t have time to help because he’s so “busy” with his regular job and his family.
He would say these things, but when I go on Facebook, I see him posting pics of him going out pretty much every night. He would post pics of himself partying or going bowling and stuff like that. He also always posts pics of the food he eats. Judging by his Facebook, he eats out 3 times a day every day. So I don’t believe him when he says that he doesn’t have time or money to help with our business.
It seems like he just wants me to do most of the work while he reaps the rewards. For the past 3 months or so, I’ve been avoiding him. I just told him that I’m busy with my regular job so I don’t have time to see a lawyer and get our online business set up. He came to my work place recently and asked me to go for a drink with him for old-time’s sake.
Of course after meeting up and talking about other stuff, he started questioning me about our business again. I just told him that I’ll try to get it started when I have more time. But the truth is I don’t want to go into business with him because I don’t think that he’s responsible enough to manage a business. He spends all of his time and money on stuff he shouldn’t be spending it on. He does all this while expecting me to do all the work while get gets half of the profits.
I’ve told him that I should get a bigger share of the business and profit because I’ve done more work, but he refuses. He wants it to be 50-50 even though he does less work. At this point I’m not sure what to do. I can’t keep delaying and avoiding him forever. I feel like I should be upfront with him and tell him that I don’t want to go into business with him because he isn’t pulling his weight, but I know that would end our friendship.
What should I do about my predicament? I want him to stop pressuring me to start our business, but we’re probably not gonna be friends anymore if I tell him off.
Submitted February 05, 2017 at 06:10AM by LooseMage http://ift.tt/2jN0SLj
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