taxi4ballet Posted October 18, 2014 Author Share Posted October 18, 2014 Hmm... well, since I'm freelance perhaps I might just let them know I'll be back at work just as soon as I've been paid! That urgent job I was working on for them won't be getting done any time soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Yep, that's what they usually recommend. I mean, why should you work your backside off for a client who won't pay? (I hope you have others who will!) You don't happen to do something vaguely creative, do you? If so, you could try pointing out that copyright remains yours until you're paid (and if that's not in your T&Cs, it should be!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 No, ironically it's financial! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon2 Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 We had to threaten small claims court when dc was owed wages for some casual work he did. Repeated asking and setting deadlines for payment were ignored. In the end told them that if money wasn't in account within a certain number of days the paperwork would be submitted to the court. Payment was received within 24 hours!! Good luck with sorting it out Taxi. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 I have a friend in London who is a self employed piano and violin teacher. The interesting thing is that the less well off people who can just about afford the lessons always pay on time. It's the people who live in the big houses in Hampstead who make excuses about paying on time and mess her about. She said they're all nice people on one level but she thinks that they are so out of touch that they don't seem to realise she actually has to live on the money she earns from the music lessons.........they probably think its a bit of extra she's doing on the side sort of thing!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 On the subject of bananas, I see Waitrose delivered a 6" spider in a bunch of bananas to an online customer. Perhaps all those people who split bunches in the greengrocery section are trying to avoid just such a catastrophe. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swanprincess Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 (I love how this thread is perfect for some rather random rants such as....) The fact that I had to take a nap this afternoon because I felt so tired, just about managed 3 hours of ballet class this evening, now at 1am I'm as energetic as a flipping Duracell bunny!!!! Whyyyy can't I sleep when I need to!!!! :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 It's known as getting your second wind. Happens to me a lot, which is why I'm still online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Fireworks going off for the last three nights and I know from past experience they'll continue until at least a week after 5th Nov. Must be hell for people with highly strung pets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 The fireworks are probably due to the Diwali festival this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Feliway diffuser is supposed to help with highly strung cats over the firework period. I have to let my cat out during the day and just keep her in at nights otherwise we wouldn't have any carpets left!! On another topic, shoppers who arrive at a store 10 minutes before closing and then are disgruntled when 10 minutes later the tills are not open - they are on time swtiches and have to close. Non-dd definitely wants to get out of retail! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Hmm... well, since I'm freelance perhaps I might just let them know I'll be back at work just as soon as I've been paid! That urgent job I was working on for them won't be getting done any time soon... Was just wondering if you have been paid yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Freaking bloody deer (pardon my French). We planted some apple trees in the lawn this spring and surrounded them with a makeshift netting fence to keep the deer away. That was successful but unsightly and it made it really difficult to get in there and mow round the trees. So once the leaves started to drop we took the fence down. Bad move. Two of the trees have now been reduced to a pile of sticks. Apparently the bloody things are reaching up to the high branches, pulling them down until they break, and stripping the leaves off them. So we've taken the leaves off the rest of the trees in the hopes of rescuing them, but it looks as though we'll have to put the fence back up around the remaining trees before the new shoots come in the spring. In the meantime the deer have stripped most of the leaves and quite a few of the branches off the fig tree, which I thought they wouldn't touch because of the latex. That tree was mostly killed by the extremely cold weather in March but has been regenerating from ground level, which of course makes it ideal for deer. So that tree will get the fence treatment too in the spring. You wouldn't think our back garden backed onto some woods (which I presume is where the snakes live), the way the deer seem to feel the need to come into the garden and strip everything bare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon2 Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 A local woodland hangs bars of soap from the branches of trees to deter the deer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 We have a spray that works pretty well, but we didn't realise we'd be needing it for the top of the trees. Apparently they don't like mint either so maybe we'll plant some of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 Was just wondering if you have been paid yet? Eventually yes, a couple of days ago thank goodness. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swanprincess Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Clumsiness!!! Quite contentedly walking home from school, when life decides 'you're having too much of a good day!' *Splat*! I fall over my own feet, go with a heavy thud on the pavement, ripped leggings, bruised knees, and... oh **** !!!! Very cracked IPhone screen!!!! (Which has no insurance, hefty screen-replacement bill coming right up.....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I read somewhere the other day that Timpsons offer that service now - but have no idea how much it costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 The joys of Christmas decorating. I was putting the last ornament on one of the smaller trees and the whole thing decided to keel over. Apparently the stand gave way - those cheap trees have stands made, as far as I can gather, out of plastic sheeting and optimism. As far as I can see there's only one broken ornament, which is amazing since the tree fell onto a wooden floor, not a carpet. Enough to cut my hand, of course, but that's just one of those things. I think this is the third time over the years that a tree stand has given way and led to a full-scale collapse of a fully decorated tree. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Christmas decorating???? I thought we were still in November! Such decorating as we do is usually done about 10 days to a week before! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Well, decorations have been in the shops since September... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I thought I was always a bit early, when I get my tree up in the first week in December! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Poison Pen Letters. I went out at the weekend with a friend, who has been subject to a spate of nasty, spiteful letters which are unsigned. I was just lost for words. How could anyone do such a terrible thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 A friend of mine received hate mail years ago now after an article in a newspaper at the time. You just would not believe what people wrote including death threats. She nearly had a nervous breakdown over it but it was truly terrifying. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 And sadly it is so much easier now with so much on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Williams Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Re. too-early Christmas buying, I was ticked off yesterday for even discussing the possibility of buying a tree this early! Horses for courses, though.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Illnesses. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Sorry Fiz. Didn`t mean to "like" it ,if you know what I mean. Hugs to you.xxx 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 (edited) Poison Pen Letters. I went out at the weekend with a friend, who has been subject to a spate of nasty, spiteful letters which are unsigned. I was just lost for words. How could anyone do such a terrible thing? Anonymity makes bullies very bold. My husband has a YouTube channel where he posts videos about the Sun, and every so often he posts stuff about the climate, particularly global warming. He's had all sorts of, erm, interesting responses to the climate videos, including some private messages letting him know that "we know where you live." Edited November 19, 2014 by Melody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted November 20, 2014 Author Share Posted November 20, 2014 Viral cardiomyopathy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 That sounds horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted November 21, 2014 Author Share Posted November 21, 2014 It is, a young man we know distantly has had his heart so damaged by it in less than a week, that there is no hope unless he gets an urgent transplant. Awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 I don't know what to say. Truly terrible. I am so very sorry, Taxi. Hugs and love. x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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