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wolfsbrideMy boss' cheating ways have caught up to her at last.
That client that we did the rush job for, whom she over charged on his original bill, came to pick some stuff up today and he brought with him two more invoices that she had sent him. One of which was for some adjustments that had to be made to the year ends after all the data was posted.
His question was, and rightly so, how come it's so much? I only talked to you a few times with changes.
What happened, and this is normal procedure for my boss, is I gave her my time for the adjustments, which was a couple of hours, and she turned around and billed him four times as much as it took me.
The most appalling thing about this whole situation is that apparently, the client called my boss to talk to her about the bill and SHE TOLD HIM TO TALK TO ME! AND THEN DIDN'T BOTHER TO GIVE ME THE HEADS UP ABOUT IT! All I got from her was 'you have to come in early because he's coming to see us today!' No mention of why or what.
So the guy shows up and I give him the stuff he wanted and then he says to me, I need to talk to you about this bill. And I'm like, uh... And that's when he tells me my boss told him to talk to me about the fact that he wasn't happy with it. So I looked at him and he looked at me. And then I said, do you want the truth? Or do you want the party line?
So, that's how much of an IDIOT my boss is. Did she really think I was going to LOOK SOMEONE IN THE EYE AND LIE ON HER BEHALF???? About something that I'm CONSTANTLY fighting her about???? I mean, I'm not a moron. I realize that businesses mark things up. That's how you make a profit. But there's marking stuff up and then there's out and out highway robbery. And I'm no Jesse James. And yes, I know he's a bank robber, but I figure no one is going to get any actually highwaymen references I make :)
So I tell him how things work with my boss. And he's unhappy but he's thanks me for being up front with him. Then he says he's going to have to take his business elsewhere. I suggest that before he does that, he talks to my boss. I mean,even if she cuts his bill in half, she's still coming out ahead.
Then he asks me when I'm planning to take over the business. So I give him a quick run down of why I shan't be buying the business. And then, and this is why I'm amused, he says you should start your own! How many clients do you need to make a living? I say ten. He looks at me and goes YOU WANT TO LIVE, DON'T YOU!!?!?!? You should think about making 100,000 a year!
I crack up. I mean seriously... What the hell would I spend 100,000 a year on? The only thing would be a house and with the prices the way they are, I don't think I'd want to get into that just yet. Besides, can you imagine how many clients I'd have to have in order to have 100,000 dollars profit :)
We chat for a while longer with him giving me what amounts to a rousing pep talk. And then he finishes with, you've worked for her for ten years, you don't owe her a thing. I'm really lucky he was such a good sport. That whole situation could have been a hell of a lot worse with a confrontation between me and a really irate and unhappy client.
I think it was REALLY inappropriate of my boss to put me on the spot about something that is her responsibility and that I have no control over. And when she gets back, we'll be having words.
That client that we did the rush job for, whom she over charged on his original bill, came to pick some stuff up today and he brought with him two more invoices that she had sent him. One of which was for some adjustments that had to be made to the year ends after all the data was posted.
His question was, and rightly so, how come it's so much? I only talked to you a few times with changes.
What happened, and this is normal procedure for my boss, is I gave her my time for the adjustments, which was a couple of hours, and she turned around and billed him four times as much as it took me.
The most appalling thing about this whole situation is that apparently, the client called my boss to talk to her about the bill and SHE TOLD HIM TO TALK TO ME! AND THEN DIDN'T BOTHER TO GIVE ME THE HEADS UP ABOUT IT! All I got from her was 'you have to come in early because he's coming to see us today!' No mention of why or what.
So the guy shows up and I give him the stuff he wanted and then he says to me, I need to talk to you about this bill. And I'm like, uh... And that's when he tells me my boss told him to talk to me about the fact that he wasn't happy with it. So I looked at him and he looked at me. And then I said, do you want the truth? Or do you want the party line?
So, that's how much of an IDIOT my boss is. Did she really think I was going to LOOK SOMEONE IN THE EYE AND LIE ON HER BEHALF???? About something that I'm CONSTANTLY fighting her about???? I mean, I'm not a moron. I realize that businesses mark things up. That's how you make a profit. But there's marking stuff up and then there's out and out highway robbery. And I'm no Jesse James. And yes, I know he's a bank robber, but I figure no one is going to get any actually highwaymen references I make :)
So I tell him how things work with my boss. And he's unhappy but he's thanks me for being up front with him. Then he says he's going to have to take his business elsewhere. I suggest that before he does that, he talks to my boss. I mean,even if she cuts his bill in half, she's still coming out ahead.
Then he asks me when I'm planning to take over the business. So I give him a quick run down of why I shan't be buying the business. And then, and this is why I'm amused, he says you should start your own! How many clients do you need to make a living? I say ten. He looks at me and goes YOU WANT TO LIVE, DON'T YOU!!?!?!? You should think about making 100,000 a year!
I crack up. I mean seriously... What the hell would I spend 100,000 a year on? The only thing would be a house and with the prices the way they are, I don't think I'd want to get into that just yet. Besides, can you imagine how many clients I'd have to have in order to have 100,000 dollars profit :)
We chat for a while longer with him giving me what amounts to a rousing pep talk. And then he finishes with, you've worked for her for ten years, you don't owe her a thing. I'm really lucky he was such a good sport. That whole situation could have been a hell of a lot worse with a confrontation between me and a really irate and unhappy client.
I think it was REALLY inappropriate of my boss to put me on the spot about something that is her responsibility and that I have no control over. And when she gets back, we'll be having words.
