Callie Bradleya year agoAm I out of touch? Omg guys UPDATE!! Apparently we just scheduled a big meeting with the accountant next week & the emails between my boss & the cpa firm are so nasty lol. Both sides seem super stressed 💀 Hi guys. Genuinely curious, hope you can give your opinions. I recently started working for a small biz who is (in my opinion) very slow to pay their bills. Owner thinks I’m being unreasonable when I bug him to pay vendors, he gets very annoyed when I ask more than once & it gets really awkward for me bc I’m the point of contact. I’m also the one who pays - doesn’t require any actions from the owner except to give me the go ahead. Imo - I feel small biz & independent contractors (notaries, landscapers, plumbers, photographers etc) should all be paid immediately when the work is done. Owner thinks it is fine to wait a few days. The worst case was with our photographer - we order diff properties to be photographed thru this guy’s website & he uploads the pics same day/next day that he goes out. When I first started, I saw that we had outstanding bills from this guy dating 5months back. About 5 of them. Roughly $200 each. When I asked my boss if I should pay them, he told me to pay 1 or 2 of them but not all. The photographer kept asking me about it, he was excited a new admin had started bc he had been under the impression my boss was just too swamped to remember to pay. I had no excuse as to why I couldn’t pay all of them. This guy’s small photography biz is just him. He’s not a big company. Shouldn’t he be paid immediately? Shouldn’t all small biz’s be paid asap? I can understand only paying a large chain/retail supplier monthly. My boss makes it seem like I just don’t understand the business world. If you’re in b2b - how quickly do you pay/expect to be paid by your partners? 0170
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