3 posts tagged “money”
Ok, its been almost a year since I have been able to have two jobs which allow me to save for the future. I have spent 7000 dollars of my savings in the past year. Money which could have been put to better use in a less expensive city. After paying a good deal today to have my car unbooted, I finally came to the realization that the employment situation is not getting better and that my savings is slowly being drained. I think this is the point where I decide to cut my losses and just GO. Sure, I would have liked to have had more in the bank than I have now, but my chances for employment in this city are looking slim, and if I can find a job elsewhere why not just do it? This is so unexpected, scary and well...exciting. I could be out of here by the end of May. Never saw it happening this way.
Contents-
1. 9mm Pistol
2. Several Hundred Dollars In Cash
3. Anti-Anxiety Medication
4. Passport (Canada anyone?)
So, I had to go to their office to pick up the check, since I could not trust them to send it to me. After waiting for the deadbeat to finish his phone conversation for at least five minutes I was forced to endure a small lecture before receiving my check. This purpose of this lecture was to inform me that my actions were "dick" ( this was the terminology used) for being so aggressive pursuing payment and for my nasty letter that I was forced to write them. ( I never made any personal attacks, unless calling someone incompetent is) and that, in fact they apparently wrote me multiple checks which, I never received. I find this amusing, because I was never told or shown this until I had to go to their office to recieve payment. (If you write a check to someone and they never cash it, you might want to inquire why this has happened.) Also, the range of excuses in the last week ranged from " I lost your invoice, I'm really sorry" to "We sent it, but it got lost in the mail" then "You'll be paid by next week" and finally "You'll be paid by the end of the month". I find the mail excuse interesting, because I have only been fed this line by people that have avoided paying me. Somehow all of my bills show up at my house without interruption, though.
This lecture was so amusing due to the fact that it was designed to illustrate the fact that, indeed they are an honest, moral business that's not trying to cheat anyone, when all of the evidence shows a pattern of duplicity, mismanagement and incompetence. Another interesting angle was that it was designed to make me feel like I'm some type of unreasonable person for just wanting to be paid after five months. Right. It was as if we were arguing what color the sky was. How dare they take their sweet ass time paying me, then force feeding me this sanctimonious speech about how they always strive to make the right choices and how much of a sacrifice it is to pay me at this time, especially when others are owed even more money than me. In fact, it was stated that their motivation to pay was not due to my threat of legal action, but from a sense of responsibility to make the just and moral choice. If you are reading this in disbelief you, my friends are not the only ones.
It wrapped up, and in closing I said, "Paul, I'm not a bad guy and I don't think that you are either, I really wish that I did not have to be nasty, write nasty letters and be ultra confrontational. I really don't like having to do this and act this way, it's not a part of my personality. At what point do I have to decide that I'm not going to be kicked in the teeth anymore? I really wish that I did not have to be here listening to this speech and having this debate with you but I need to collect what I'm owed. Goodbye."
Some or most of my friends would describe me as a cynic, but this is only one dimensional. Readers of this blog who have never met me probably can't get a clear picture of who I am, but in all honesty I'm not a cynic, even as hard as it can be at times. I expect and hope that my friends, business associates and even people that I'm in intimate relationships with will do the right thing, no matter how difficult it can be. Oh well. About a year ago when I was going through an bad breakup due to extreme cowardice from the person that I was involved with. A friend of mine probably gave me the best advice I had heard in a long time. "Just let her be human." Indeed. It's hard accepting that people are going to act less than human at times and exceed my lowest expectations. Hell, they're only humans, and so am I.
