I have a client that has chosen not to pay for the work I did for her. Her name is Suzanne Taylor and the website is called "TheConversation.org". I did work for her and billed her, she agreed to pay after I gave line-by-line explanations of her invoice on the phone. The deadline by which she agreed to pay for the services rendered came and went - I called her and she then informed me by phone that she would not pay. [My guesses as to why she chose not to pay for the work I did are below] Her website is about crop circles, she also has another site called MightyCompanions.org which appears to be about... nothing. I googled her and I found a story called Tempus Fucks It and another story which contains the lovely quote "We lovingly fuck, and after it is finished, she walks to the chair across the back of which is slung the jacket..." and the byline is "Suzanne Taylor"! Funny - dirty old lady. She also has a thing on her site where she talks about how she likes to get naked and give speeches to groups of people. She's 68 for crying out loud. Feel free to discuss that on her elist. She also has a convenient form you can fill out to email her directly. No reply-to headers!

Dealing with her was nightmare. I feel like she totally took advantage of both my professionalism and my work ethic. Over 283 emails were exchanged in a 3 month period. That's a lot of email - even for me to deal with. She called me at midnight, she called me constantly really. She would call me on sunday mornings and leave insane rambling messages about emergencies and threatening that she was going to call the FBI. She was convinced that I had some how hacked her site and prevented only her computer from accessing her site - despite the fact that she had several friends check it and get to it just fine. I am so leet. Sigh.

I should have been ware when she mentioned all the previous web designers she's gone through in the past. It sounds to me like she has a basic MO and does this often. As soon as she got my bill she acquired another web guy - I can only assume this was so she wouldn't have to pay me and he could download all of the work I did and move it. His name is Allen Branson. He is a scary clown in leather pants. He's funny - seriously, check it out. After SUXANNE decided not to pay me, she sent this monkey after me to send me threatening html-formatted emails about how I violated the GPL. I violated the GPL? HA! I don't really even know what he was supposed to be threatening me with as I never even took any punitive action toward her. Despite the fact that her bill is now 15 days past due. I just today took down her account at the hosting company, but the leather pants monkey has already downloaded it and changed the DNS. I trusted her with net 30 credit terms too. Which means I did the work in good faith accepting that she would pay her bill like most honest people would.

Anyway, its just not cool to have an independent IT contractor do work for you and then not pay for it. Some people just make me lose faith in the world.