Excerpts from experiences
How often we fall? or most appropriately why do we fall? Do we plan or falls? This looks a real tomfoolery, isn't it? Well, I think we many a times plan our falls, and fall and then make a big hue and cry all over it...
I had one such fall but then fighting tooth and nail to set things right. As a freelancer, we always received alerts from www.translationdirectory.com repeatedly asking us not to accept projects from Adith Multilingual Pvt Limited, Bangalore.
Well, there I was hearing all the warning bells and the song in background "Golmaal hai bhai golmaal hai, har seedhe raaste ki ek tedi chaal hai" Warning bells went unheard and the Golmaal song tho went tossing in air. The higher it went, it went unheard..
And soon I accepted 4 projects from them. completed them within the deadlines and waited for the next formalities to take its course. I was given the Purchase Order number after 2 months of the completion of the project. I received and after preparing an Invoice sent it back to them asking them for my payment which never happened.
I wonder which great man said this "
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
Repeated calls to the project co-ordinator never came up with a open talk of my payment. All that they told me very vaguely they would inform the Procurement Department.. Patience tearing within and cursing myself as to what a fool I had been, gave a final call to the Project co-ordinator Priya who hadn't even bothered to respond to my persistent calls and messages (mails) Wrote in a mail to Bangalore Commissioner explaining him everything..
It was then, my complaint was forwarded to the K.R. Puram Police Station. The Sub-Inspector in charge listened to my woes and promised me that he would help me and my friend get back the payment. Waited for 2 days more, and it was yesterday (2nd November) that the Company's MD Ms. Sharmila P, called and apologized for the undue delay and and also said that she would get back to me.
There has been no response. Will wait and come up with more episodes of my tirade with Adith... and the Bangalore Commissioner as my bandwagon to raise to cudgels against this company. How
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