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Krashstar
05/18/09

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One of these days Viacom is going to decide that working for them counts as valuable 'experience', for which they should be billing you.

Then you'll look back at this flustercluck, and pine about 'the old days'.
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ninety_nine
05/18/09

In reply to Viacom Has 22 Reasons Not to Pay You
InvoiceWorks is an independent vendor. I used them via BearingPoint, and never had a problem with the system. It was actually one of the better third party expense management systems I've ever used. Understand that 'expense management' is a yield based industry that sells primarily on two fronts: minimizing back office overhead and treasury/cash management (read: loans to your client while wait for a check). The system is only as good or bad as the firm utilizing it. When a company wants to minimize cash flow, they turn up the heat on AP clerks running it -- they make less than most of the freelancers, and tend to be vindictive when they see the situation as poorly portrayed as this. Get your ducks in a row. If you don't understand invoicing, or POs or accounting, and you want to freelance, take a bookkeeping class; I'm sure Media Bistro has something that actually could be really useful.
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Carol Gardens
05/18/09

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I recently forgot to put the VIN number on an invoice and the person who processes the payments actually added it for me and sent me a reminder. So now I will always remember my VIN number! (I do think you are overreacting, actually. This is hardly a scandal. And actually, if someone did not know about VIN numbers it is because the person they work for didn't tell them. The memo went out January 6th.)
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OMG! Ponies!
05/18/09

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Invoice will be routed for approval within minutes.

Invoice will be rejected within months. Invoice will be paid in part within years.
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Mount_Prion
05/18/09

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Isn't "Sincerely, MTV Networks" an oxymoron?
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