Originally posted by: skulkingghost
Here is the letter I a, sending the company that currently owes me a lot of money.
Hey Guys,
Attached is an PDF of all the invoices I have sent *** since I began working for the company. I know there are a few duplicates, and I did made sure not to put them in to my working total.
I went to my bank, and had them print a copy of every check I had deposited from *** since I began work for you in February of last year. I then took the amount from every invoice I submitted to you, and subtracted the two. The total currently due came to $3421.
You are welcome to check this with your own checkbook, I have attached the invoices as well so you can check too. If you would like a copy of all the checks, I can fax that too you as well.
I have all emails and personal files backed up as well, with the dates I submitted the invoices, as well as response emails I began working for the company. Since October of last year money just stopped coming in. Invoice amounts got screwed up, and I have not received payment for 300+ hours of work.
This frustrates me to end, as a student I have many bills to pay, and worked long and hard on many of the features of the website that are up today, but I have not received payment for. I was continually promised "the check is in the mail" but as of yet have not received any of these promised checks. A month ago when the website theme got messed up, I fixed it free, and ***** promised he would begin mailing out checks to repay the debt weekly. It is nearly 4 weeks later and I have not received a single one.
I do not know what caused the issue, whether it was mismanagement, or poor communication to whoever writes the checks, but I cannot continue on like this with the company. There are many open projects right now *****List of projects***** that I have not worked on in months, and refuse to work on due to the lack of payment. At this point I am parting ways with this company and only ask for the money owed by the 19th.
If the money is not received by the 19th I will pursue legal action. I do not have a problem obtaining a lawyer, and have all the necessary files and forms to file litigation. However I do not wish it to come to this, as that is a last resort method, and I know a very costly method for you to pursue as well.
Before I make a final note I would like to say that as of today I am ceasing work on all open issues with the website. Keep in mind that this means whatever is wrong with ****** not being able to add inspections, and any future upgrades or changes made to the website will not be able to be made unless you do them yourself. Things do break on sites such as this, and the site needs regular maintenance and security fixes to keep it running well and secure. To hire someone to do what I did for only $10 an hour will cost you ATLEAST $35/hour. If the same issues happen with someone like that as did with me, you have much bigger problems. Remember that a site as heavily trafficked can not just sit without maintenance, it needs to be kept up.
In conclusion I hope to have the check in my hands by the 19th so we can avoid any legal fees and complications. If I receive the check by the 19th, I will look in to ******* problem and fix it as well, free, simply to avoid burning bridges with the company.
I enjoyed my time working with *******, and the many challenging projects I got to work on, however at this time I resign, and request all unpaid invoices be paid by the 19th. Thank you for the time and experience.
