Ok I was hired on back in ought five to work for craig and his "magazines" About a month later one of the employees husbands committed suicide, so she left. Then his partner Todd left because "he wasn't paying the printers" Hmm. Okay. All the while "man were gonna make you creative director soon." Promises, promises. None of which were fullfilled.
Then the checks started to bounce causing me problems with my financial institution among others. Three checks bounced and on the third one, i'll never forget: Friday November 18th: "Here you go man there is the extra money I owed you and you can cash it today because I made a deposit yesterday." I go to his bank and ask to speak to the branch manager. He informed me that the funds were not there. I promptly called the authorities and asked them to meet me at the place of business so I could turn in my key without being accused of stealing anything (and to keep me from kicking his a*).
Well I headed down to the magistrate and filed a case. Case went to trial and I won. Obviously, the judge could see right through him. Well I was awarded three times the amount he owed me which came out to about 4800.00. He had thirty days to pay me and never did. The credit card that I had in my wallet with a zero balance had to be used to survive. I am still paying on this!
Almost a year went by and at this point in my life I was in the process of getting married and needed the money not only because that but because of the other bills incurred because of craig. So I did some research on Richland County's site and found another case where a party sued him for the same reason. I contacted this lawyer and told her what was going on and that I might need her services. I then emailed craig (I use lowercase because he's not worth the extra "shift") and told him that I had contacted a lawyer and that he had one week to give me what he owed. "oh that's too much money to come up with in a week, " he says. Being the naive guy that I am, not to mention I'm getting sick of him anyway, offer him half in one week, and the other half in two weeks. Well after some debate, he said okay.
I met him at Wachovia on friday and he said "all I can give you is $900 right now." I took the money and told him that I will be seeing him soon and I told him that Ruth would be contacting him and that the magistrate will also be notified. At this point I had started a new job and did not have the time to dealing with this.
Well the money never came and I heard about an "it" party at the Wild Hare. I met him and he said let's walk outside. I could tell he was scared of me. He kept saying man I promise your money is coming, you're at the top of my list. You're no. One, I've gotta pay you. I'll have your money by the end of the mo. My words exactly: "I don't fuc*&$ believe you, you know you can give me the imac as collateral until you pay me! Otherwise I don't fuc*&% care." "Oh, i can't do that I have a business to run." "Whatever, " I said and just walked away and that was that. I haven't heard from him since. I'm still 4 grand in the hole...
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