pay me please

[flutes_and_fabric]

Here's the update as promised: No friggin check. We have resolved the whole $30 thing though. They indeed did make a mistake. I asked for a letter signed by the principal that clearly states that $30 of the $300 fee has been payed, and the service provider (me) is still owed $270 which will be payed in full in a separate check. I refused to leave the school until I got his signature on the letter which was written up and also signed by the teacher who hired me.

Now here's the big question: Is it actually in the mail yet? From his e-mails I've gathered that he believes the school has all ready placed the check in the mail. I don't think they have.

I sent an e-mail earlier today informing him that I had not received payment for my services yet. He didn't get back to me, so I just sent another e-mail offering to stop by the school to pick up the check.

[Andara Bledin]

'Tis Wednesday. Did you receive the check as promised?

^-.-^

[bainsidhe]

I look forward to the update. Good luck!

[Sheldonrs]

... and going for breaking things over skulls is rarely acceptable.

Not from New jersey, are you?

[Jetfire]

In the future too, when you do contracts like this, you should probably consider adding a late fee markup clause. If the agreed upon amount isn't paid in full by X-days after agreed upon time, then late fees of Y% per day will be added. (Make sure Y% isn't too high to avoid any local laws)

[Sparky]

I'm a bit surprised that no one has mentioned the obvious (to me) fact that flutes_and_fabric is dealing with a SC who is also a sucky employee. Ask to speak to the manager! And the manager in this case is the school's principal, who is probably a priest. I'd guess (though I could be wrong) that there's a rectory attached to the school, where the priests live. Had it been me, I'd have been knocking on that door.

Now that everything's all straightened out -- assuming the check comes as promised -- that's moot. But this teacher still did a piss poor job of representing the school, and his boss ought to know this. Send a letter.

[cinema guy]

, but said that if the check didn't come by wed. to contact him again.

Response: "If the cheque isn't here by Wednesday, I will be contacting my lawyer."

[eltf177]

Demand an extra 10% to make up for the check being so late! You've earned it!

[Erin]

So, the check is in the mail??

[flutes_and_fabric]

Pay me please, an update

So I understand that with the holiday there's no one at the school to get this sorted out, but because I had contacted the school multiple times before the holiday I thought someone might have been able to look into it before the holiday, but of course no one over there cares about me. (I used the phrase "before the holiday" multiple times on purpose because every person I talked to forgot that I had in fact contacted the school multiple times before the friggin holiday. BTW, I do love Christmas, so nothing against "the holiday." I just wish I could have gotten my money BEFORE THE HOLIDAY as promised in the contract so I could have bought x-mas and Hanukkah stuffs. Cookies all around this year.)

So today was the first day back to school and I finally get a reply from the teacher. He said he hadn't checked his e-mail at all during the break. Ok, I get that. So I resent the three e-mails I had sent before the break and asked what excuse he had for not replying to those.

Anywho, he claimed at 1st that everything was right, so I went into the school to personally show him the check that clearly said thirty dollars and not three hundred (big diff. by the way.) He never apologized, but said that if the check didn't come by wed. to contact him again. Yeah, keep ya posted.

[evilhomer]

Do *not* cash the $30 check, whatever you do.

Definately!!! I remember an episode of "The people's court" or some such show with a situation similar to this. I can't recall the exact details but basically the decision wound up being that since the cheque was cashed, it was deemed to be accepted as payment in full.


Getting away from the suck of the short payment, I can't get over what kind of moron this guy was about you not knowing your way around the complex. Fine, being Jewish may not be totally apparent, but I'm pretty sure the fact that you're female would be easily detectable. What kind of all male school is this guy running where any random girl off the street has complete knowledge of the layout?

[Broomjockey]

Namely being broken in half across the THICK SKULL of some RAVING IDIOT. ?

Getting darn close to that line of unacceptability. We've no evidence of any thick skulls or raving idiots as yet, and going for breaking things over skulls is rarely acceptable.

[Midorikawa]

No, it's when a church tries to not pay the professional musician that you lose your faith in humanity. (The organist used to go there, and the church gave her the "oh we thought you'd do it as a donation" line. They paid her, but tried to make her feel guilty for expecting it. At Christmas, when she could easily get paying work at any number of churches).

Wow. The church my brother and I used to go to tried that with him (he's a professional string bassist working on his masters in music education). Let's say there's a reason he wants nothing to do with them. They 1) stiffed him about $500, 2) pulled the guilt trip, 3) expected him to drop all other concerts and play shows that weren't in the original contract.

[Magpie]

No, it's when a church tries to not pay the professional musician that you lose your faith in humanity. (The organist used to go there, and the church gave her the "oh we thought you'd do it as a donation" line. They paid her, but tried to make her feel guilty for expecting it. At Christmas, when she could easily get paying work at any number of churches).

[eltf177]

Boy, when you get stiffed by a religious school of all things that can really crush your faith in humanity. If I ever worked for them again I would _insist_ on cash up front!

Hope you get paid soon!