small claims court the next step?

[ERD50]

As I wrote before, Vic the finance guy in PA has no clue what Bill.com is doing.

I was relying on Vic to give me the correct information.
I do not know anything about how Bill.com system works.
That's his job!
All I cared about was when would I be getting paid.
And the most important piece of information was when was the check mailed?

Vic assumed that mailed was equivalent to "released".
Hence, his email to me on Friday 11/9 said that I "should be seeing it Tuesday/Wednesday".
Obviously he forgot about the federal holiday on 11/12, but he clearly thought the check was mailed on 11/9 .

My email to him with the photos was to show him that his assumption that "released" = "mailed" was incorrect.

If you and I know enough about how our banks worked, why didn't Vic ?

By the way, Vic had originally told me that the check was "released" on Tuesday 11/6 .

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And you totally ignored Texas Proud's question about the dates you had that were wrong. I had also noticed the inconsistency.

Just curious... you say they told you Fri the 9th and check was Tue the 11th... but the 11th was a Sun.... Tues was the 13th... so you must have made a mistake...

Methinks there is some confusion on both sides, which could have possibly played a part in the delay. We don't know, hearing only one side of the story, but considering this confusion over dates, and no acknowledgment of it, it makes me wonder.

You've got your check, cash it and move on.

-ERD50

 

[Choices]

Naw, Vic knows what “released” means or he really isn’t a “ finance guy”. I would say that on the 9 th your co. released the invoice for pmt. release then went to Bill.com....

 

[broadway]

And you totally ignored Texas Proud's question about the dates you had that were wrong. I had also noticed the inconsistency.
-ERD50

Oops, I wrote it wrong.
The check was dated 11/13 Tuesday.

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[mystang52]

You've got your check, cash it and move on.

-ERD50

+1 I'm happy you finally can close this issue. You went through some aggravation but at least it was a satisfactory ending.

 

[broadway]

Naw, Vic knows what “released” means or he really isn’t a “ finance guy”. I would say that on the 9 th your co. released the invoice for pmt. release then went to Bill.com....

Vic told me that my invoice was "released" by the CEO to be paid back in September.

I still have that in an email.

That was "released" #1.

And apparently there is a "released" #2 = 11/6 which got inexplicably changed to 11/9
And apparently there is a "released" #3 = check can be printed 11/9
And apparently there is a "released" #4 = check is printed 11/13
And apparently, there is a "mailed" = check is mailed date unknown

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[cathy63]

Assuming you never want to work for them again, you could always leave a review on Glassdoor.com with information about how hard it is to get paid. That might help future employees and contractors.

 

[ocean view]

I had a temp job just out of college in Accounts Payable dept of a company that apparently had cash flow issues. We would process the invoices on the standard timeline (net 30 days?), and print the checks. I got a lot of calls asking “where’s my check?”. My response was “here is the check number, the check is in the mail” as that’s what I was lead to believe. I later learned that checks were held in the safe for 1-2 weeks before mailing...sound familiar?

 

[audreyh1]

So I hope you aren’t doing any more work for them.

 

[pb4uski]

Or if you do it is only on a prepaid retainer.

 

[broadway]

So I hope you aren’t doing any more work for them.

h*ll NO !




I was dumped by the CEO, because he thought I wasn't good enough, not making fast enough progress etc.
In his mind the software worked before.
Nevermind, he didn't know which set of source code that was.
Nevermind that the hardware was a completely new design.
So, he hired back an ex-employee.

Last I heard, they were re-writing the software from scratch!

 

[broadway]

Assuming you never want to work for them again, you could always leave a review on Glassdoor.com with information about how hard it is to get paid. That might help future employees and contractors.

Yep, going to do that on Monday.

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