First an update as promised: we've been having issues with a Payment Services Provider for a while, and we've been working with them (or trying to) to sort out who owes who what. They started off by claiming an amount around 200k, and then supplied documents to our accountants who came back and said that the documents were seriously poor quality, but from them we were owed 1M. Obviously I liked that number, and equally obviously it couldn't be right either. We spent the next 12 months arguing with a special kind of idiot on the PSP side who first wanted us to add the numbers up her way ("we use standard international accounting rules, not yours," said our accountant), then trying intimidation ("just pay me now!") and finally got herself sacked (woohoo!) The next sixth months was her replacement looking at what she'd done and failing to understand any of it too, and discovering that he couldn't find any of the documents we needed (a simple list of transactions in and transactions out, nothing more!). So we had a call yesterday after yet another person on the PSP side sent us a bill for 800k, leaving me sat there in disbelief trying to choose between 'extortion' and 'usary'. In which I proposed paying half of their original estimate on the grounds of cost of accountants on my side and the sheer incompetence on his side (though not him personally, thankfully) -- and we seem to have an agreement. I won, I think. Curiously enough, if I could have fit that meaningfully into four lines, it would have been today's prose :)
Validation Deborah had been escorted from the building by medical professionals and a fireman after it became apparent that the sealed hazmat suit was causing her serious problems and each problem either exacerbated or caused another. Anthony waved the judge over sadly to have the board validated as the final position, forced to concede defeat with his partner incapacitated. "Very nice," said the judge, nodding, "TRANSLOCATION is in the running for longest word of the tournament. I'm very surprised you never challenged ENG though, that's British English... weirdoes."
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First an update as promised: we've been having issues with a Payment Services Provider for a while, and we've been working with them (or trying to) to sort out who owes who what. They started off by claiming an amount around 200k, and then supplied documents to our accountants who came back and said that the documents were seriously poor quality, but from them we were owed 1M. Obviously I liked that number, and equally obviously it couldn't be right either.
We spent the next 12 months arguing with a special kind of idiot on the PSP side who first wanted us to add the numbers up her way ("we use standard international accounting rules, not yours," said our accountant), then trying intimidation ("just pay me now!") and finally got herself sacked (woohoo!) The next sixth months was her replacement looking at what she'd done and failing to understand any of it too, and discovering that he couldn't find any of the documents we needed (a simple list of transactions in and transactions out, nothing more!).
So we had a call yesterday after yet another person on the PSP side sent us a bill for 800k, leaving me sat there in disbelief trying to choose between 'extortion' and 'usary'. In which I proposed paying half of their original estimate on the grounds of cost of accountants on my side and the sheer incompetence on his side (though not him personally, thankfully) -- and we seem to have an agreement.
I won, I think. Curiously enough, if I could have fit that meaningfully into four lines, it would have been today's prose :)
Validation
Deborah had been escorted from the building by medical professionals and a fireman after it became apparent that the sealed hazmat suit was causing her serious problems and each problem either exacerbated or caused another. Anthony waved the judge over sadly to have the board validated as the final position, forced to concede defeat with his partner incapacitated.
"Very nice," said the judge, nodding, "TRANSLOCATION is in the running for longest word of the tournament. I'm very surprised you never challenged ENG though, that's British English... weirdoes."
Greg - that's remarkable. I would have stuck with the million dollar payment in, but I can see why you wouldn't go that route...
Regardless! Congrats are in order for bringing things to a resolution, more than anything else I think.
Hah! I like this judge.
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