As Far As I Can Tell

I two new projects this week from Biggs-Gilmore. They run to the extremes of a project that you can feel good about the client and one where you have to hate them.

1. A Flash navigation for the Kalamazoo Arts Council (for their upcoming new site, not the current one).
2. A pop-up window promotion where people get a free Hummer when they buy a SeaRay boat (not the current pop-up on that site).

Free Hummer? Come on. Normally I’d say something along the lines of: “Oh well, at least it pays the bills”, but lately it hasn’t been. I’ve done over 175 hours worth of work for Biggs in the last three months, and haven’t seen a single check. Last week I told them I wouldn’t do anymore work for them until we could get this cleared up.

It seems that they sent the checks to my South St. address in Kalamazoo. Since I haven’t lived there in over a year, and since it wasn’t the last place I’ve lived besides moving to Chicago, the checks didn’t get forwarded. Doesn’t non-forwarded mail get sent back to the sender?

My current address is at the top of each of my invoices that I’ve sent them, but that seems to be beside the point. After numerous phone calls where they assured me they weren’t trying to screw me over, I accepted that this was just a mess-up. They’re going to cancel the checks and re-send them to my current address — but I still haven’t gotten them.

I’m confident that I’ll receive the money eventually, enough anyway that I’ve started doing work for them again. This, apparently, is the joy of freelancing.