Life - Doesn’t get any Easier…
Bit of a dig at one or two clients here – so you may wish to avert your eyes!
How about the customer who signs a contract with a payment term of 21 days then – and only then – when the invoice has been overdue for a week – tells us that their …. ‘Accounting system has been changed and they can’t pay us for another 45 days’. So we are looking at over 70 days after invoice before we see a penny…
Strange that their accounting system has been changed three times already this year…..
Duuh – how is a small to medium business supposed to grow!
The Quantity Surveyor (clear throat and spit) tells our accounts department that … ‘there is no point you going down the legal route’… because…. ‘by the time papers have been served – you will have been paid’.
At the other end of the supplier chain – my plant hire company and the tip to which the contaminated material has been sent – all require to be paid when due….on time…. or they wont continue to trade with us.
It appears as if the end client has no requirement to honour his obligations - ….yet still expects us to jump on the next project.
So here at Japanese Knotweed Solutions - it appears that…. we ….are funding the economic growth of the United Kingdom….
Mike C
Ps Anyone wishing to know the name of the client…give me a call 07766 901901
January 13th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
It could be any of around 1000.
I bet it starts with a letter between A-Z.
Thats Winter for you I guess.