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The fee was a set daily rate for 3 days work - thurs,fri, sat.
As it turned they expected me to start immediately on the monday - the emails asking me for things etc clearly prove this, and it was just as well I did, due to all the mid way changes.
They are not only lowering the fee, but are only counting the 3 days.
It is also clear from the emails that I often worked well into the evening, sending emails, images etc at 10-11 at night, so they cannot claim I did not put the hours in.
A meeting is not possible as they are on the other end of the country, and also I feel it would not go well - this girl is very snotty and argumentative.
I feel she is going on the blame shifting and outcome, not what happened in between.
There is also a lot to say and I know I would either forget to mention it or get talked over, so I thing a letter would be best - it is quite long due to the extent of the problem - it also includes copies of emails backing up what I am saying.
This was a single job, no future or prior stuff.
In terms of explaining why, it is simply viewed from their point of view - i.e,
a certain item wasn't the one requested, so in their eyes I have not done the job properly - the fact that I had got the item at the start, it was correct and okayed, and then the day before, the item spec was changed, and I simplky didn;t have time to research, locate and purchase the new items - especially since I was required also to identify the equipment item from a music video, sent to me in a link that would not work - a specific style, brand and type!
- this is the problem here. This sort of thing happened numerous times.
I had planned my working week, when each thing would be tackled to make full use of shop opening hours etc, but they kept demanding I do thing when they wanted and changing things so I ended up wasting about 2 whole