@kenasch wrote:
Never mind. I found the ICA with a simple google search. It does say ”around” which gives them plenty of leeway. Too bad we can’t submit our reports “around” their deadline.
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marketforce.desk.com]-–-us-shoppers-
Really, and why not... If one wishes to belabor the issue, let's try this one:
I'm an independent contractor. If MF or anyone I contract with gets too picky about my fulfilling of the "contract" then they risk making me a de-facto employee. Now let's say a few thousand shoppers somehow got this idea in their heads and said what's good for the goose is good for the gander, and, well, I'll leave the rest up to those with greater imaginations.
I dunno about you, but I do not need 'them', they need me, and I'm happy as a lark to make sure 'they' know this fact. It's particularly fascinating when it's my own client doing the educating on this. Like I kept telling the poor souls calling me from the Phillippines, I won't even get out of bed for $10, and you think I'll drive 30 miles and back and take several hours for $6 and higher cholesterol? No, you have a nice day.... Then they made the mistake of saying one thing, and when I caught it, cancelled the shop. Finally I simply stopped 'em from calling period. I saw this late payment coming almost a year ago, simply by paying attention to changes that were ever so slowly creeping along, sorta like the frog put into warm water that's being heated slowly. Frog (allegedly, andyway) does not recognize the danger and just gets cooked.
Suppose we put our thinking caps on, let's see if the following makes sense:
1) I have a right to be paid a fair amount for what I do.
2) You have a right to be paid a fair amount for what you do.
3) If Tiddlywinks MSing can get away with paying less to anybody, they will.
4) Tiddlywinks MSing can only get away if they find someone willing to stiff themselves.
5) If enough people are willing to stiff themselves, Tiddlywinks MSing sings their way to the bank.
6) I wanna sing MY way to the bank!
7) I want YOU to sing your way to the bank too!
8) I will not help Tiddlywinks MSing victimize anyone, not me, not you.
9) Would you?
There's a company I know of that provides a specialized service, using independent contractors. These contractors are sold on a rosey story about how much they can make by doing the service, and offered an amount per element of service that is fairly decent. When the contractor signs up, sure enough, after a while, the company tells the contractor they gotta accept a little bit less, and again, and again, all the while the company seeks new contractors at higher rates to replace the one's it's lowballing and go out of business. A revolving door of 'opportunity' followed by slowly forcing contractors bit by bit and starting the scheme with "new blood."
Here's a link that does not specifically point at what I'm talking about, however, it sure points in that direction:
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www.fiercehealthcare.com]
Thank all of your for your efforts to serve the greater good. Unfortunately, that may not be what what some businesses and individuals out there are doing, thus we exist. When you do not get paid on time, eyes are on that issue, don't doubt that fact. Pun was definitely intended.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/2019 01:34PM by ap7isback.