Just In Got a Kick outta this one..............................

Do a lotta municipalities and county vehicles, emergency and police vehicles and such. In the last few years, we've had to go along with their new tactics of paying invoices.

Seems, they've all come up with this new policy of entering the invoice for payment at the next township meeting or whatever it's called in your neck of the woods, and they 'aye' it to be paid at the next meeting. Seems it now takes about 2 months to get most checks for lettering these things..... which I'm alright with, just don't like it very much. Just a way for them to put off paying for things right away.

So, we did a large trailer a while back and it took the normal 2 months to get paid, however, they overpaid by a few hundred dollars. So, I just sat on it, waiting for them to call.

It took about 3 days and they called Monday, wanting to know where their overpaid balance check was. I calmly said, it will go into next month's paperwork as you already missed this month's meeting. Then, it will be processed and sent out for payment at our following meeting. You should have your $308. by late October or no later than November.

Total silence and then she said..... WHAT ???? What do you mean ?? We must have that overpayment immediately. I said, well, that's what you guys do. She said, but not you. You must give us that payment immediately.

Okay, we'll get on it right away, just for you, but it will take the rest of the week, til we do the books on that sorta stuff.

By the way, Rebecca, that is a crazy way of doing business, huh ?? She said, yeah, I know, but our hands are tied.

Now, this is not a political thread, just a funny thing that happened to us, so please don' take this down the ol' political highway and ruin another thread. This was entered just to hear other peoples' renditions of getting the runaround by the authorities.

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Yowsa, that's some nasty sh!t.

 

Most of ours are like that, too. Only the municipalities take advantage of us. We have one company pays out every Tuesday and Thursday, so in some cases I can have it the next day. I like those big ones.