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Subject:Re: Client from Hell redux From:"Jason A. Czekalski" <topsidefarm -at- mva -dot- net> To:TECHWR-L digest <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 08 Jun 2000 19:11:02 -0700
Sharon Burton-Hardin wrote:
<< We had 4 other manuals go really well and are about to be approved,
it is just these last 2
that are enough to make me and my writers crazy. >>
I don't mean to sound really paranoid in this situation, but my
sleaze-detector meter just spiked off the gage. My question is: How much
of the job have you been paid for to date? This sounds like a case of
someone trying to find a reason to stiff you on the final payment. An
associate of mine just had this happen. What a nightmare. Write down
every detail you can remember, and analyze the daylights out of their
drafts, And be prepared to get a lawyer involved at the first hint of
double-cross.
