Monday Links from Nowhere Vol. LXIII

[OwlHoot]

I remember one place going bust on me with 30000 quid outstanding. ah me. unhappy days...

Holy carp! How/why in the World did you let it creep up to that amount?!

(Unless you're HMR&C )

[muhnkee_2]

Just in case anyone else has ended up here while trying to track down their money from Inginia Solutions...
I thought i would post this interesting little blog that I stumbled across. It appears that these guys really pissed some people off:
mockingtudor.wordpress.com
It looks like their companies owe contractors and suppliers at least £700,000.
My share of that is a relatively small £20,000.
I hope we get some justice, but I aint holding my breath, the cheeky git Michael Baker who runs Inginia solutions has even listed one of his other companies as a creditor to Inginia Solutions.
They are still operating as Empire RC and Execuit, stay well clear of them.
Cheers,
Greg

[OwlHoot]

I was taken on by a company in the group that included Inginia, for a month contract at a telcoms company in Slough in August 2010 to write some perl code for an Oracle data feed.

My proposed contribution was a fairly small part of the overall project, to be completed at the start, and it was anticipated the project as a whole would take several months including testing and user acceptance.

Before starting, I noticed my contract said I would be paid "following user acceptance". Not having anything else on the go at the time, and wanting a bit of Oracle experience even if only peripherally, I was quite keen to do the work but naturally very unhappy about this ridiculous condition.

So, despite them being very emphatic (suspiciously so) that I should FAX the signed contract back before starting, I deliberately "forgot", and was was two or three days in before I contacted the agency and said the payment condition was absurd and if not changed before I signed the contract then I would walk off the site.

By then I had a few preliminary results to show the end users, and not wanting to upset the users Inginia very reluctantly agreed to a 30 day term (which was bad enough itself, but at least not almost open-ended).

In the event, the contract was extended slightly to about six weeks and I then started at another clientco and carelessly let things slip regarding checking payment of my Inginia invoice for several thousand pounds. (In theory I could have applied for a winding up petition back in about october 2010, and certainly would have if I'd realized the rogues hadn't paid!)

But as I mentioned in an earlier post, as luck would have it, several months later, at the end of 2010, there was a requirement for a day's extra work at Inginia's clientco. To the MD's obvious irritation when I spoke to him on the phone, there was no one else they could readily lay their hands on who could do this.

Noticing then that my earlier invoice _still_ hadn't been paid, after six months, I said I would be willing to do this work but only once this was rectified.

According to the MD, it was all a lamentable oversight that had slipped through the net, and would have been sorted out in no time had I mentioned it earlier!

I bet they never paid the invoice for the day's work. Couldn't be bothered to check afterwards, as it was only a few hundred. If not then there was certainly no point once I received the administrator's
letter.

For what it's worth (nothing I know) you have my sympathies muhnkee_2. But again one has to ask how and why you let it get so much! Once an agency starts getting behind with payments, they'll never catch up.