Diana Waring aka Diane Corrigano wanted to work as a subcontractor for a small business. I started this business after becoming disabled years ago. My husband does not own this business yet is also being attacked by her. He became a certified home inspector after having a double organ transplant in 1996 and until he got congestive heart failure and colon cancer was a popular and terrific inspector. After this, we also got involved in Field Service Inspections working for Vendors across the country and built a good reputation with many of them. We work for the three largest and more still. During the last 13 years we have sub-contracted many wonderful people and only a few that did not work out either because they did not want to or they did not like the work, contracts etc. This was their choice.
Ms. Waring worked for three months as a sub contractor. I never met her in person and took her at her word that honoring a contract and performing contracted work was something she was familiar with and she both signed one and submitted a W-9. As allowed, one change she did not like was made to the contract so she opted not to work as well as indicating she may want to move back to Florida where she had come from. It is well within her right to quit, however, rather than submit a final invoice to me for payment as all do. She first filed for unemployment but had no credits prior to working for me in order to collect it. She had not been working. She immediately filed a claim against me with the Dept. Of Labor, along with a friend of hers, 3 weeks prior to any date she would have been paid had she submitted her final invoice and log! She did this deliberately knowing I was out of state and I would not be notified. At the same time she was posting damning and damaging information about myself, my business and my family all over the internet which I have copied, pasted and printed.
I am not sure why she refused to submit her invoice after attempting to circumvent the proper return of keys used in this business and entrusted to her. She then lied to the DOL, indicating that she was an employee and submitted an unsigned contract along with partial or handpicked emails leaving out the rest in order to gain a favorable outcome. Because I was out of state, managing the lives of two sick people and a husband on many medicines, she knew I had to have this hearing by phone. She also, at the same time, filed an SS-8 against me with the IRS, whom I have never had a problem with as well as other paperwork. She is on a witch hunt. She is part of an online group of people who damn people in the industry who do what I do and work with who I work with. She has systematically ruined day after day of work for me as I have to speak to lawyers, send paperwork, answer questions and submit evidence. I has become more than the nuisance I thought it was in that this personal attack has affected my family, my health and most of all my trust in sub contractors.
I always carried the insurance which I won't do anymore. I always gave bonuses to hard working people because I was given them by companies but stopped because it has been told this is treating the like an employee. For someone I never met in person, someone I gave work to when they wanted it and even more someone I told time and again I would pay immediately if she sent in her paperwork, it was a deliberate and nasty attempt to get money out of me as if I were making millions. I own this business because I like it, I don't have to sit around and collect disability and most of all because after 13 years, I have met some of the best people and companies in this industry. All hard working companies like myself. If you hire her and she does not like you, she will sue you in every possible way and post it all over the place in an attempt to ruin your reputation. Fortunately, those who know me, know better, however, damage is damage. Be careful because if you are a small business, doing inspections in a few states, her and her group of friends are dangerous to you and your business. There was no good reason for any of it.
She simply did not want to follow the rules she agreed to and I got sued for it. Unfortunately, if she does not follow them, she blames myself and went so far as to trash other inspectors who had the audacity to say a good word about me. This too is copied, pasted and printed. I hope this gets to the people who are considering working with her because in the end, the attorney fees will add up for no good and true reason. I assumed that telling the truth to the DOL in NH was the right thing to do, not knowing she would stoop so low as to indicate that she was never under contract. Low, even for someone who had a right to sue, but she didn't. She could have been paid over two months ago but refused! That too is printed. Be careful if you contract her or the other people she converses with about good, bad and other companies. She does not know them well enough to make comment as she has not even been in this business much more than a minute. It could be you next!
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