{"id":1293,"date":"2010-10-05T17:04:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T06:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2010-10-06T17:12:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T06:12:34","slug":"a-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/10\/a-step-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"A step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had to deal with something unpleasant, and then experienced the relief when it is resolved in some way, especially in a positive way?<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I went to a VCAT hearing about outstanding payments from an ex-client.<\/p>\n<p>Background story: A client I thought was trustworthy requested various writing projects over a period of time but hasn&#8217;t paid me for them. This client has never indicated a problem with the invoices, but just hasn&#8217;t bothered paying &#8211; or asking for any extension or payment terms. Late last year, I sent statements with the message that although interest hadn&#8217;t been charged it would apply from January and further action would be taken if she didn&#8217;t respond by that time. She chose not to respond so I filed an application resulting in today&#8217;s hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Outcome: There is now a court order against her to pay me &#8211; and it is binding even if she goes into liquidation. I wonder if she knows the courts can go as far as <a title=\"Failing to meet court orders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcat.vic.gov.au\/CA256902000FE154\/Lookup\/miscellaneous_pdfs\/$file\/enforcement_of_orders_for_payment_of_money.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">repossessions<\/a>\u00a0if she ignores the order? Personally I think it is for the general good that an order can go on public record so others an see her reputation and be protected from her.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I would have much preferred to not go down this path and have been paid when I presented the invoice. It is an unfortunate risk in business that not everyone is honourable; fortunately, I have not had a lot of problems with payments and this client is certainly the worst in my seven years of running a business.<\/p>\n<p>There is a great sense of relief however to have the hearing over and know that she is\u00a0liable to pay me now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had to deal with something unpleasant, and then experienced the relief when it is resolved in some way, especially in a positive way? Last week, I went to a VCAT hearing about outstanding payments from an ex-client. Background story: A client I thought was trustworthy requested various writing projects over a period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50],"tags":[1119,1121,1118,1120],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-word-constructions","category-bit-off-track","tag-hearing","tag-order","tag-payment","tag-vcat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}