In a message dated 4/30/01 3:36:56 PM, mightymezzo@h... writes:
<< Speaking from the viewpoint of my "real job," I would have wanted to know that one particularly accursed customer we had a few years ago was ALSO stiffing his landlord. We might not have been left holding the bag for $30K in services otherwise. >>
While I agree that nobody should be allowed to "stiff" someone who provides them goods or services, I understand that in many cases it is illegal to pass along that sort of information. (I speak from a personal experience with a similar "client" who left an agency that I worked for holding the bag for huge media and printing bills.) Even if it's not specifically illegal, anyone who does could be leaving themselves vulnerable to legal action--interference with a contractual relationship, slander, that sort of thing. Sometimes the law seems to favor the unscrupulous!
Incidentally, how would a voice teacher end up holding the bag for a lot of money? Don't almost all require payment either in advance or at the time of the lesson? Seems like any other policy would be too risky, especially with a new student who is not a "known quantity."
Judy
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