[ourlordcaffeine]

A friend was once owed about $2k, and did not receive payment on time. She phoned up the person processing payments, who told her that essentially the person running the shop had instructed them not to pay her.

She sent an email to the head of the company (small media company that works on documentaries), who told her that she would not get paid because there was a "grammatical error" in her work, and if she continued to ask for payment they would not hire her again (now I should mention the person she was working with was happy with the work, she gave them the opportunity to ask for alterations and they told her that the work was up to standard and she could bill them).

She fired an email back quoting the contract, and how the company told her in writing that they were happy with her work. Again she was told that she would not get paid and should stop asking or they wouldn't work with her again. She then got a lawyer to write to them and threaten legal action. They paid her that day, along with what a phone call from the boss calling her a "useless c*nt" along with a bunch of other insults directed towards the fact that she was female.

[not_a_cop75]

It seems like a pretty regular phenomenon in business, that if they believe you can be walked all over, that you will, in fact, be walked all over.