Too little, a trifle early

Some fool has paid their debts and suddenly we’re awash with funds.  Well, damp around the toes, anyway.  There’s still the distant howl of creditors outside, but we’ve enough to sustain us for a few more days.

Meanwhile, the emailed orders are flooding in.  OK, I’m overexcited, but there have been a lot of them.  Well quite a few. All for rather small amounts, but more than in the last few days than for the same number of weeks before.  And none of the biggies is coming in.  But there’s sufficient to believe that one of the monsters must also fall, soon.

This self-delusion is an aspect of my Loftex brain-washing I’m not at all happy about.  When I started here I could tell you that 10 licences at £500 each was £5000.  These days when asked what my 10-licence order amounts to I’m more likely to round it up to £10k.  Our erstwhile CEO would have rounded still further and by the time you heard it back from the other offices you’d scored a £90k deal with potential for a further million.

If my brain hadn’t been washed I wouldn’t be so happy getting my pitiful salary 7 days early, which is (bizzarely) what’s happened.  I’m still owed mega-oodles in commissions etc., so why am I feeling grateful?  And why have they paid it early?

Meanwhile chasing the channels that haven’t paid up continues.  I’ve done debt chasing before, but usually for larger corporates and usually for debt that’s over a month late.  Once the scheduled payment date is past, one of us is on the phone, and when the amount is less than £200 its starting to become obvious we’re in fairly desperate straits.  All in the cause, of course, and if I had any confidence some of it would find its way to paying something other than the bare minimum I’d have more enthusiasm.

So if you’re reading this, Mr. Foreign Channel that owes me/us $973.27 (and you know who you are), pay up now so we can buy our children Christmas presents.

Please!