Ripped Off at Work
 

A somewhat complicated saga of the car-biz, so I'll try to make this quick.

A customer (also a former employee) owes me $600 from 4 different invoices dating back 4-6 weeks.

Last week he paid me on one invoice, but deducted $200. I was baffled, then it was explained to me that my employee had a friend who had some work by this customer and neglected to pay him. This friend has nothing to with my biz or the transactions.

I should also mention that this employee is the nephew of my customer.

My employee said he didn't pay because the work wasn't done on time. I suspect that the money was intercepted by my employee, but have no proof.

My employee said he'd call the friend to get the $, but I have yet to see it.

I told my customer this was bs, he agreed and said that my employee probably pocketed the cash. Duh... I told him that wasn't my problem. I got another check today, but am still $225 short.

Should I deduct $225 from my employee's pay? Or should I keep on the customer and break his knees?

Geez, I hate word problems. :D

C'mon man, gimme somethin' to work with! :)

I hate weaselly people.

That's the best I can do.

B

Only your customer owes you money; the rest of it they all have to work out themselves like grown ups do.

You're being chiseled. Whenever I hear a complicated B.S.story I know I'm being screwed.

I thought maybe my employee was in cahoots with his uncle. Goddamn, who knows... :mad:

(If I'm reading this correctly...)

Yes, it is your problem. He works for you.
You allowed an employee to handle the money and now it may be in his hands. You can’t prove it is, so you can’t deducted it from his pay.
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You can’t prove the customer didn’t pay via the employee, so getting on to him is mute as well.

The only thing you really can do:
You need to realize you just got a $225.00 education, and move on.

Watch the employee like a hawk. Don’t allow him to handle any of the company money.

You can do with the customer as you see fit. That being, either continue to do business with him, however with a different payment plan. Or, refuse to do business with him all together.

BTW: You may want to consider not writing three more invoices when the first hasn’t been paid, as well.

Getting paid on time was never a problem before this former employee worked for my customer. I'm sure he's playing a game with this guy as well, so I can't really blame a confused customer.

I'll probably go after this guy and get my money. In a nice way though. :D

Cripes, a word problem with a multiple choice answer . . . SAT flashback here I come.

Consider it a lesson, if the employee will steal $225 there's nothing stopping him from stealing tools, business, more money yada yada. He's the kind of guy that will steal something from a customers vehicle and your problems increase my much more than $225.00

Solution: Get a new employee and make sure all payments are on a signed receipt.

I'm not sure if he stole it, but it makes sense since he's a "reformed" gambling addict with money problems.

Come to think of it, most people in the car biz have money problems. F'n amazing. The car biz is full of desperate, sad people.

Well you learned a lesson. From now on you should have your employees, if they deal with money sign there names on the receipt saying they accepted it. This way you know who handled the money. if money is missing then the employee that signed the receipt will be liable.

The transaction was in no way related to my biz.

My employee owed my ex-employee/customer's worker/uncle $200. Well, actually it was his friend-- his friend either neglected to pay the ex-employee or my guy intercepted the money.

The ex-employee/customer's worker knocked $200 of an invoice, most likely unbenonst to his boss.

If it was one of my deals, the employee would be long gone.

In that case...I guess I didn't read it correctly........:o