Long story short and no names to protect everyone's privacy:

We had a fund raiser for our charity this last weekend. We came into conflict with the promotions person about some money. We tried to be exceedingly polite and professional with this person but they became increasingly defensive and rude. We called the Police to investigate, did not want to. We wanted to work with the promoter in a civilized and professional manner. Now the Police and the lawyers are involved.

The promoter then sent an e-mail threatening to call the IRS, the Health Department and the SPCA on us (for what we don't know really, just harassment). They have at least followed through with the Health Department. I called them Monday morning and they said they did have a complaint from this person. I INVITED them here for an inspection, as we have nothing to hide.

I guess the sheik new way of getting revenge on someone is to use a government agency Last year a person quit and proceeded to call the State Medical Inspector on Dr. Spector, our organization President, he was cleared of any wrongdoing. Then they called Adult Family Services claiming Dr. Spector had been abused. Again cleared off all suspicion.

I try to remain professional and polite, but, I am beginning to loathe this crap, and these people!

From this point on we do all fund-raising in-house.

[This message has been edited by tutnkmn (edited 07-26-2007).]

Tres chic...this isn't the beginning of a good trend for you involving women, is it?

We get that all of the time. When bids for work are read aloud at a public letting, Everyone knows what everyone else's bid price is. There's one company in particular that, if we beat their price, we can count on having the fire marshall, the building inspectors, DHEC, OSHA and OCRM all breathing down our necks within a few days. All from "annonymous" tips. We also get every single one of our dump trucks pulled over and inspected. Most of the time we just brush it off and move on. But one time we got sick of it and put in an annonymous tip of our own. Ended up costing the guy a good bit because he was caught using offroad diesel fuel in his onroad trucks. A big no no in South Carolina. But that only kept him quiet for about six months. Then he was right back at it.

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Over a fund raiser thats just petty.

I deal with inspections from OSHA from the union getting pissy when I under bid them. They learned not to picket my place of business (home).

quote Originally posted by whadeduck: Ended up costing the guy a good bit because he was caught using offroad diesel fuel in his onroad trucks. A big no no in South Carolina.

A big "no no" here too

Sadly people are using government agencies for revenge often. My mom was a social worker for years and she'd always get BS calls from people not really needing to be called on just someone wanting revenge. Calls like this take away from the calls that really need investagated and I'm sure that goes for all agencies like this. This makes me miss the days when a quick fight in the yard would settle most disagreements and everything was cool again afterwards.
Angie

Fight fire with fire. What is good for the goose, is good for the gander. Who does not have a skeleton in the closet?