2
Nov
Posted in Runty Rants | 1 Comment »
photo credit: splityarn
Few things make me more cranky than waiting for money that’s due to me. I’ve trained myself not to even expect a check until after the first 30 days post invoicing, but when someone tells you it’s going to be sent on one day, and then it isn’t, it’s even worse than if they’d told you it was going to be 60 days in the first place.
That said, I realize companies have their own systems of paying you, and I’m sure those are highly intricate and complex machinations, but God, man! I have my own needs for the money I’ve earned (past tense) from you.
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Tags: 30 days past due, 60 days, accounts payable, ap, bella, COBRA, cranky monday, edward, freelancing, indian food, invoice 4, invoicing, jacob, money due, new moon, payback, paychecks, spoof, twilight, unwanted, vampires, vendors, waiting to get paid
25
Oct
Posted in A Layoff Story | 1 Comment »
I was reminded by a former coworker that yesterday was the one-year anniversary of our dear old departed mag folding.
I remember that day fairly vividly: the confusion when my direct deposit paycheck didn’t go into my account (once in the office we were handed “live checks” by the suits who came to deliver the bad news); my anger that once again the bigwigs were trying to skinflint us (we’d been plagued with financial problems in that last month or three and my job had became, essentially, arguing with AP to get our freelancers paid); my heated conversation with the editor-in-chief over what he was doing to protect us…
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Tags: accounts payable, chaos outside the boardroom, dmv express, east side, editor in chief, fighting the good fight, final destination: the magazine, magazines folding, nostalgia, office problems, one year anniversary of layoff, snarky, temporary offices, west side, work family
