I tuned a piano in a (local to me) swanky posh health spa in the UK. I left my invoice with reception who said they would pass it on to accounting. 2 months later when going through my records I saw I didn't get paid. I rang the spa and was told it was with accounting. I didn't get paid. I emailed accounting. I didn't get paid. I emailed the spa manager. I didn't get paid. I saw it as a lost cause, blacklisted them and told all the other piano tuners I know to do the same. 8 months later on a local FB page someone was asking what the spa was like, I replied saying the spa was great at taking their own payments but usless at paying their bills as they STILL haven't paid my invoice. I instantly get a message for the OWNER of the spa (I did check it wasn't a scammer) asking for the invoice details. After a brief search at her end she says accounting has lost the invoice and could I send her another? The new invoice included late fees, they paid up in full 3 days later :)
Oh, they fully intended to leave you unpaid. They only paid because you made a public statement about it. If you lose an invoice, you can the person and get another copy. They just didn't want to.
I‘m self employed and had to go nuclear once to get an invoice of 2800€ plus late fees payed. Went to court, got an enforcement title and went to the bailiff‘s office afterwards. The court ordered immediately to freeze the company’s accounts and charged the CEO with „delay in insolvency“ which is punishable by up to five years in prison in my country. I‘ve got my money within 24 hours. Costs on my side have been 50€ for the title. The charges were dropped because the company could provide information that they are not insolvent.
@@transsnack tbh this depends on if the owner actually runs the business or just checks on it from time to time. Or even checks it all the time, but for the most part trusts his managers to actually run the business. Since OP only talked to reception, managers and accounting, it may be that accounting for real lost the invoice and then pretended it never happens not to get reprimanded, or the managers scams contractors, without the owner knowing. Had OP escalated to the Legal, it may have been resolved too, as now it would involve another department and the internal investigation would raise some questions. I see it too often, lower ranking managers hiding the facts from the owner/board/etc just to not get scolded or get their bonus cut. So the higher manager/owners have to do an external audit from time to time. Or monitor the socials in the case of smaller businesses. It may as well be the owner is fully on board with the situation though. Both are equally possible imo.
Story about reviewing schoolwork. I told my kids K-5 teachers that they had the kid for over 6 hours a day, which was more time than I got with them awake. If they couldn't get schoolwork done in that amount of time, I was not giving up family time to make up for it. If they sent homework folders, I signed the sheet with a statement about family time and no homework. One teacher started punishing my kid for it, so I went the the principal, who liked me partly because I did a lot of volunteer labor for the school, and that teacher never gave us any more crap about homework. We did have the "tell me one new or interesting thing you learned today, what were the best and worst parts of your day" conversations at dinner time, read tons of books, and took advantage of learning opportunities, so we were not just being slackers.
My friends stepdad broke his gameboy when he said he couldn’t fit the beers in , and after trying his step father beat him for taking so long, as it was superbowl Sunday My friend had a meltdown because of how awful his step dad was , it wasn’t until his step dad brought out his super Nintendo and smashed it screaming at him to get the beers in it and my friend lost it and started throwing beers he threw about 8 until his step dad pinned him down and beat him unconscious, a neighbor called 911 and the step dad hid my friend in the garbage can and tried to clean up while threatening the neighbor with violence, long story short, step dad is arrested, his mom who defended that her new husband did nothing wrong lost my friend and his siblings to their father was glad to have his kids back
Story 3: Yeah, most of Canada has 2 seasons, like you said: Winter, and road construction. However, other parts of Canada also has 2 seasons: Pump, and Shovel.
Story 4: The kid missed a trick here... He was told to answer loudly every time.. Here's how it would have gone with my niece had she been told that. M: You need to answer loudly whenever I ask you a question N: Okay M: What is 7x4? N: Loudly M: Do you think your funny? N: Loudly M: Stop being silly and answer me properly. What is 7x4? N: Loudly
To be “three sheets to the wind” is to be drunk. The sheet is the line that controls the sails on a ship. If the line is not secured, the sail flops in the wind, and the ship loses headway and control. If all three sails are loose, the ship is out of control.
Wow those rooms got a super quick makeover after the fires from yesterday it looks like. You must have hired a whole team to get everything back in order lol! Great stories as always, especially the one with the kid I hope he goes far in life. Sometimes teachers ask parents to review with their kids partly to get the parents involved in their kid’s schooling and partly make sure the kids are remembering the material. Nowadays they are trying to cram so much learning into so little time,especially with teachers dealing in the aftermath of Covid and virtual learning that sadly several groups of students are behind and now trying desperately to catch up to where they should be had 2020 not happened.
I’m at the hospital with my wife holding our just born first child and I called the office to check on things and my boss started chewing me out about something trivial(a misspelled customer name). It really hurt because I had been in cloud nine and my wife could hear him yelling at me. A few years later that same boss tells me the company is in financial trouble and since I ran the most successful branch he and I should get the lease out from under the company and start our own business. I knew the landlord well and also that we were on month to month lease. Still pissed about him dressing me down at the birth of my kid I went to the landlord and got the lease but didn’t include my boss. The rub was he couldn’t tell corporate that I had done it because it would implicate him. He showed up at my house after 10pm and we almost had a Donnybrook in my front yard. I worked for the company until the day they moved and just stayed at the location.
After proving Boss wrong about the dress code, I'd have insisted on him writing himself up. It likely would have ended up in a screaming match. But I'm stubborn when I know I'm right
eh, its really tough, children do need a soft touch and a firm hand to grow correctly. Sometimes its reasonable to evenly split that between the parents, but it has been a pretty ingrained tradition that the father is normally responsible for punishment, and the mother reward. I think its fine, but its also necessary to still show the father loves and cares for them. being "strict" shouldn't be a 24/7 thing, but a thing used when they genuinely have done something wrong. the "wife can't punish" thing in this context is probably more a "well dad is laughing! " if one parent finds it funny and is making that clear infront of the child, it would be unfair for the other parent to punish the child.
The driving test one reminded me of two cases from my own family: (1) In New Mexico, there are regular drivers licences, instruction permits (what are called learner's permits in other places), and something called a "restricted instruction permit" which you can only use when you're enrolled in driver's ed and driving with the instructor for that class in the car with you. And you can't take driver's ed unless you have that restricted instruction permit, for which you must not only be enrolled but at least age "fourteen years plus eight months". I had been skipped ahead a couple of years in school, so I specifically signed up for driver's ed with the note that it would have to be in the spring semester (I wouldn't be eligible yet in the fall). And since classes were assigned to give preference to the older grades, so being a junior they naturally enrolled me in the fall semester anyway (the others my actual age would have been sophomores). Had to get them to change the enrollment so I could actually take the class. (2) My niece was born prematurely in October 1978. Shift to the summer of '96 and she wants to register to vote in the November election. While she would in fact turn eighteen by election day, they wouldn't let her register by the cutoff in September because she wasn't eighteen yet. Years later it occurred to me that if she hadn't insisted on being born ahead of schedule, her eighteenth birthday would have come a week or so *after* the election so she wouldn't have been able to register *or* vote that year.
There are two seasons in Canada: frostbite and flybite. Of course, some places have four seasons: this winter, last winter, the winter before, and four winters ago. (credit to Lorne Elliott)
And in one episode of Gilligan's Island. During the sequence where Gilligan and the Russian spy who's had plastic surgery to look like him are chasing each other through the jungle, the music alternates between a speeded-up version of the show's theme music, and that Russian song. To help clue the audience in on which of the two identical characters we're watching.
I tuned a piano in a (local to me) swanky posh health spa in the UK. I left my invoice with reception who said they would pass it on to accounting. 2 months later when going through my records I saw I didn't get paid. I rang the spa and was told it was with accounting. I didn't get paid. I emailed accounting. I didn't get paid. I emailed the spa manager. I didn't get paid. I saw it as a lost cause, blacklisted them and told all the other piano tuners I know to do the same. 8 months later on a local FB page someone was asking what the spa was like, I replied saying the spa was great at taking their own payments but usless at paying their bills as they STILL haven't paid my invoice. I instantly get a message for the OWNER of the spa (I did check it wasn't a scammer) asking for the invoice details. After a brief search at her end she says accounting has lost the invoice and could I send her another? The new invoice included late fees, they paid up in full 3 days later :)
Oh, they fully intended to leave you unpaid. They only paid because you made a public statement about it. If you lose an invoice, you can the person and get another copy. They just didn't want to.
I‘m self employed and had to go nuclear once to get an invoice of 2800€ plus late fees payed. Went to court, got an enforcement title and went to the bailiff‘s office afterwards. The court ordered immediately to freeze the company’s accounts and charged the CEO with „delay in insolvency“ which is punishable by up to five years in prison in my country. I‘ve got my money within 24 hours. Costs on my side have been 50€ for the title. The charges were dropped because the company could provide information that they are not insolvent.
@@transsnack tbh this depends on if the owner actually runs the business or just checks on it from time to time. Or even checks it all the time, but for the most part trusts his managers to actually run the business. Since OP only talked to reception, managers and accounting, it may be that accounting for real lost the invoice and then pretended it never happens not to get reprimanded, or the managers scams contractors, without the owner knowing.
Had OP escalated to the Legal, it may have been resolved too, as now it would involve another department and the internal investigation would raise some questions.
I see it too often, lower ranking managers hiding the facts from the owner/board/etc just to not get scolded or get their bonus cut. So the higher manager/owners have to do an external audit from time to time. Or monitor the socials in the case of smaller businesses.
It may as well be the owner is fully on board with the situation though. Both are equally possible imo.
Story about reviewing schoolwork. I told my kids K-5 teachers that they had the kid for over 6 hours a day, which was more time than I got with them awake. If they couldn't get schoolwork done in that amount of time, I was not giving up family time to make up for it. If they sent homework folders, I signed the sheet with a statement about family time and no homework. One teacher started punishing my kid for it, so I went the the principal, who liked me partly because I did a lot of volunteer labor for the school, and that teacher never gave us any more crap about homework. We did have the "tell me one new or interesting thing you learned today, what were the best and worst parts of your day" conversations at dinner time, read tons of books, and took advantage of learning opportunities, so we were not just being slackers.
My friends stepdad broke his gameboy when he said he couldn’t fit the beers in , and after trying his step father beat him for taking so long, as it was superbowl Sunday
My friend had a meltdown because of how awful his step dad was , it wasn’t until his step dad brought out his super Nintendo and smashed it screaming at him to get the beers in it and my friend lost it and started throwing beers he threw about 8 until his step dad pinned him down and beat him unconscious, a neighbor called 911 and the step dad hid my friend in the garbage can and tried to clean up while threatening the neighbor with violence, long story short, step dad is arrested, his mom who defended that her new husband did nothing wrong lost my friend and his siblings to their father was glad to have his kids back
Sorry that your friend went through that but I’m glad he got out of that crap hole of a situation
Yet another approach for story 1: remove items from the fridge to make room for the beers. And yeah, dad was already marinating, lol.
Story 3: Yeah, most of Canada has 2 seasons, like you said: Winter, and road construction.
However, other parts of Canada also has 2 seasons: Pump, and Shovel.
And of course the shortest distance between two points is always roadworks. 😅
Story 4: The kid missed a trick here... He was told to answer loudly every time.. Here's how it would have gone with my niece had she been told that.
M: You need to answer loudly whenever I ask you a question
N: Okay
M: What is 7x4?
N: Loudly
M: Do you think your funny?
N: Loudly
M: Stop being silly and answer me properly. What is 7x4?
N: Loudly
Rob? Where did the phrase three sheets to the wind originate? Lol
To be “three sheets to the wind” is to be drunk. The sheet is the line that controls the sails on a ship. If the line is not secured, the sail flops in the wind, and the ship loses headway and control. If all three sails are loose, the ship is out of control.
@@KarmaStoriesPodcastI learned something new. Neat.
My husband was definitely the fun one at the grocery store.
Wow those rooms got a super quick makeover after the fires from yesterday it looks like. You must have hired a whole team to get everything back in order lol! Great stories as always, especially the one with the kid I hope he goes far in life. Sometimes teachers ask parents to review with their kids partly to get the parents involved in their kid’s schooling and partly make sure the kids are remembering the material. Nowadays they are trying to cram so much learning into so little time,especially with teachers dealing in the aftermath of Covid and virtual learning that sadly several groups of students are behind and now trying desperately to catch up to where they should be had 2020 not happened.
Rob, in Ontario, we have Winter and Mosquito season. Construction never stops
You do realize he lives there, right?
@@matteoinocencio9702 You do realize so do I, right? We're practically neighbours, as well as the author of the story. So, politely, stick it.
Definitely Canadian, but you forgot to say Sorry 🤣
@KarmaStoriesPodcast Thank you, Rob.
@@KarmaStoriesPodcast Sorry. I'm a frostbitten Ontario boy. Although today it is more wet.
I’m at the hospital with my wife holding our just born first child and I called the office to check on things and my boss started chewing me out about something trivial(a misspelled customer name). It really hurt because I had been in cloud nine and my wife could hear him yelling at me. A few years later that same boss tells me the company is in financial trouble and since I ran the most successful branch he and I should get the lease out from under the company and start our own business. I knew the landlord well and also that we were on month to month lease. Still pissed about him dressing me down at the birth of my kid I went to the landlord and got the lease but didn’t include my boss. The rub was he couldn’t tell corporate that I had done it because it would implicate him. He showed up at my house after 10pm and we almost had a Donnybrook in my front yard. I worked for the company until the day they moved and just stayed at the location.
"you didn't let me scam other people you asshole" - the final story
It's the church, what did you expect?
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo yep churches are evil
Good afternoon Rob 👍 Have a terrific Tuesday everyone 👋🤗
After proving Boss wrong about the dress code, I'd have insisted on him writing himself up. It likely would have ended up in a screaming match. But I'm stubborn when I know I'm right
eh, its really tough, children do need a soft touch and a firm hand to grow correctly. Sometimes its reasonable to evenly split that between the parents, but it has been a pretty ingrained tradition that the father is normally responsible for punishment, and the mother reward. I think its fine, but its also necessary to still show the father loves and cares for them. being "strict" shouldn't be a 24/7 thing, but a thing used when they genuinely have done something wrong. the "wife can't punish" thing in this context is probably more a "well dad is laughing! " if one parent finds it funny and is making that clear infront of the child, it would be unfair for the other parent to punish the child.
The driving test one reminded me of two cases from my own family:
(1) In New Mexico, there are regular drivers licences, instruction permits (what are called learner's permits in other places), and something called a "restricted instruction permit" which you can only use when you're enrolled in driver's ed and driving with the instructor for that class in the car with you. And you can't take driver's ed unless you have that restricted instruction permit, for which you must not only be enrolled but at least age "fourteen years plus eight months". I had been skipped ahead a couple of years in school, so I specifically signed up for driver's ed with the note that it would have to be in the spring semester (I wouldn't be eligible yet in the fall). And since classes were assigned to give preference to the older grades, so being a junior they naturally enrolled me in the fall semester anyway (the others my actual age would have been sophomores). Had to get them to change the enrollment so I could actually take the class.
(2) My niece was born prematurely in October 1978. Shift to the summer of '96 and she wants to register to vote in the November election. While she would in fact turn eighteen by election day, they wouldn't let her register by the cutoff in September because she wasn't eighteen yet. Years later it occurred to me that if she hadn't insisted on being born ahead of schedule, her eighteenth birthday would have come a week or so *after* the election so she wouldn't have been able to register *or* vote that year.
There are two seasons in Canada: frostbite and flybite. Of course, some places have four seasons: this winter, last winter, the winter before, and four winters ago. (credit to Lorne Elliott)
Story one is reminding me of the Russian song used in every modern Tetris game.
And in one episode of Gilligan's Island. During the sequence where Gilligan and the Russian spy who's had plastic surgery to look like him are chasing each other through the jungle, the music alternates between a speeded-up version of the show's theme music, and that Russian song. To help clue the audience in on which of the two identical characters we're watching.
@@dadoctah oh that's funny.
Hi!
>tutoring your kid all weekend on top of making them go to the public education system
That should find a child abuse
There should be a balance, but tutoring children outside of school hours is absolutely acceptable. But you reward them for that work.
Good afternoon
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