- Joined
- Aug 11, 2020
Several things
-I'm fucking pissed off. I'm a translator who works mainly with one company, but I've worked with several over the years. One was a company from Spain (for context, I'm not in or from Spain) specializing in game localization. Last year, they stopped paying me, and when pressed, they told me they were going out of business and were trying to find a way to pay. They didn't. They said lawyers were involved and that I'd be notified when something came out of it. Then they stopped answering entirely. They owed me around 12 hundred Euro.
Yesterday I get an email from their lawyer saying the process is closed. I ask what am I supposed to do, and point out this is the first time I hear about anything since they stopped answering. They replied that the process had been posted officially for everyone to see, and that I had time to enter my claims in court but hadn't. How could I know? I wasn't notified as I should have, being a creditor of the company, and not being in Spain I had no way to find out or enter my claim.
What's more, the court decided that only entities who were owed at least 5% of the total worth of the company and its assets could enter a claim to be paid. And it turns out that's almost 100 times more than what I was owed.
So I was fucked from the start.
I had already given up on the 12 hundred Euro, but this makes me angrier. A company fucks up its finances and doesn't pay? It sucks, it's shit, but yeah companies are assholes. THE COURTS decide Nah you get fucked, now that's some fucking shit.
The lawyer said I can take action but I'll have to contact some other lawyer in Spain and cover whatever costs that process takes, for my measly 12 hundred Euro. Not worth it.
I could ask the woman I'm seeing (who is a lawyer, and lived in Spain for a time) for advice, and probably will, but it's clear pursuing anything would be a waste of time, energy, and money, with no guarantee of any success.
-Oh yeah, as of late I've been seeing a woman who is a lawyer, but also and more importantly, even a bigger rock-head than I am. She's cool. I don't get my hopes up but it'd be nice if it worked. She seems pretty hype about me too, but that's happened and fizzled out with others before, so.
-After Dog's accident a couple months ago (he's anxious about being alone, tried to escape, broke a window and hurt himself horribly with the glass and the metal window protections, he's ok now; for details see my posts in this thread around November), I've been very apprehensive about leaving him alone. I only leave him in the front yard for up to 15 minutes, and if I have to leave for longer, I plan around having my kid stay with him. He doesn't need like being watched all the time, just having someone in the house reassures him.
But I can't live like this forever. There may be an emergency that requires me to move fast; I want to go out with Kid sometimes; I want to go out with the rock-lady without having to get Kid to stay with him. And so on.
So I've been talking to a dog behavior expert, she said it's a long process to realign his behavior, but for the short term, she recommended some medication. Not natural calming crap, those pills and scents and shit, that does nothing. This is some actual antidepressant/anti-anxiety shit that supposedly helps them calm down a lot (and a doctor during the recovery process from the accident actually gave me a prescription for it, so that I could try it out on Dog when he was back to proper health). I have to test the dosage, though, so today I tried the initial dose they recommended, and... I think he was a bit woozy for a little while, and he reacted slightly less than he does normally when I went to the nearby shop and came back. It might work? Maybe he needs more? I'll try again some other day
-Trying to get my payment rates up. I haven't done it in years, so the companies better accept an adjustment, I'm not asking for anything crazy, Wish me luck.
-Sneed.
I know it hurts right now but don't trouble yourself with someone like her.
-I'm fucking pissed off. I'm a translator who works mainly with one company, but I've worked with several over the years. One was a company from Spain (for context, I'm not in or from Spain) specializing in game localization. Last year, they stopped paying me, and when pressed, they told me they were going out of business and were trying to find a way to pay. They didn't. They said lawyers were involved and that I'd be notified when something came out of it. Then they stopped answering entirely. They owed me around 12 hundred Euro.
Yesterday I get an email from their lawyer saying the process is closed. I ask what am I supposed to do, and point out this is the first time I hear about anything since they stopped answering. They replied that the process had been posted officially for everyone to see, and that I had time to enter my claims in court but hadn't. How could I know? I wasn't notified as I should have, being a creditor of the company, and not being in Spain I had no way to find out or enter my claim.
What's more, the court decided that only entities who were owed at least 5% of the total worth of the company and its assets could enter a claim to be paid. And it turns out that's almost 100 times more than what I was owed.
So I was fucked from the start.
I had already given up on the 12 hundred Euro, but this makes me angrier. A company fucks up its finances and doesn't pay? It sucks, it's shit, but yeah companies are assholes. THE COURTS decide Nah you get fucked, now that's some fucking shit.
The lawyer said I can take action but I'll have to contact some other lawyer in Spain and cover whatever costs that process takes, for my measly 12 hundred Euro. Not worth it.
I could ask the woman I'm seeing (who is a lawyer, and lived in Spain for a time) for advice, and probably will, but it's clear pursuing anything would be a waste of time, energy, and money, with no guarantee of any success.
-Oh yeah, as of late I've been seeing a woman who is a lawyer, but also and more importantly, even a bigger rock-head than I am. She's cool. I don't get my hopes up but it'd be nice if it worked. She seems pretty hype about me too, but that's happened and fizzled out with others before, so.
-After Dog's accident a couple months ago (he's anxious about being alone, tried to escape, broke a window and hurt himself horribly with the glass and the metal window protections, he's ok now; for details see my posts in this thread around November), I've been very apprehensive about leaving him alone. I only leave him in the front yard for up to 15 minutes, and if I have to leave for longer, I plan around having my kid stay with him. He doesn't need like being watched all the time, just having someone in the house reassures him.
But I can't live like this forever. There may be an emergency that requires me to move fast; I want to go out with Kid sometimes; I want to go out with the rock-lady without having to get Kid to stay with him. And so on.
So I've been talking to a dog behavior expert, she said it's a long process to realign his behavior, but for the short term, she recommended some medication. Not natural calming crap, those pills and scents and shit, that does nothing. This is some actual antidepressant/anti-anxiety shit that supposedly helps them calm down a lot (and a doctor during the recovery process from the accident actually gave me a prescription for it, so that I could try it out on Dog when he was back to proper health). I have to test the dosage, though, so today I tried the initial dose they recommended, and... I think he was a bit woozy for a little while, and he reacted slightly less than he does normally when I went to the nearby shop and came back. It might work? Maybe he needs more? I'll try again some other day
-Trying to get my payment rates up. I haven't done it in years, so the companies better accept an adjustment, I'm not asking for anything crazy, Wish me luck.
-Sneed.
Goes a bit beyond "it's not your fault". She's a straight up retard. She didn't want better, hell you were better, but she wanted abusive retardation.Not too good, thanks for asking. My mega super fine girlfriend just called it quits on me and left last night after saying she cheated on me with her physically abusive ex. I knew it was coming, and I know her choices arent my fault. It still sucks though. maybe if i'd just been better, something something blaming myself here.
I know it hurts right now but don't trouble yourself with someone like her.
