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Bad day.
I have a hot-tempered sloppy brother in our family business
that often is late in filing stuff. He sat on my client’s tax return
for three months, that was supposed to be mailed. There may be penalties. Yes, it was my client mixed up with all the other tax return copies he sat on. Unfortunately, I told
the client I would not charge him $350 because of my screw-up (Well, my brother sat
on it, but I have to take responsibility). I had asked him three times if he
had mailed that return back in October, he said that he had. He lied, and it was in his stuffy box under the desk. So, I was angry and I told him I would reduce what I owed him by $350. It was only fair, and since we are both broke, partly due to his gross inefficiency, I am merely applying a credit to what I owe him.He then proceeded to blackmail me on my website. He said that he should have charged me $600 for my website, and
since I was playing this “game”, he called it, I should pay him $250. In other words,
he would reduce the $600 by the $350 I lost down to $250. We had no contract, he sat on my website for two years, and he verbally said pay me $250 initially for the website when I can. I had offered to satisfy that and some other monies
I owed him with the $350 I lost, but not before he turned to this blackmail on me.
The other part of this is that if I don’t pay him the $600 within 30 days, he will shutdown my website and kill my car club, since he has all the files. This really pisses me off. He screwed me over, and as usual, like a bratty 12 year old in a 30 year old body, victimizes me in the family business, costs me revenue and a potential client, and says he has been very nice to me so I owe it to him. He says for me to back off and we’ll be square, or pay up the $600. My Dad is a terrible listener and a poor communicator, and there is nothing I can do short of punching my brother’s lights out and going to jail, so what is the moral decision to make?
I have a hot-tempered sloppy brother in our family business
that often is late in filing stuff. He sat on my client’s tax return
for three months, that was supposed to be mailed. There may be penalties. Yes, it was my client mixed up with all the other tax return copies he sat on. Unfortunately, I told
the client I would not charge him $350 because of my screw-up (Well, my brother sat
on it, but I have to take responsibility). I had asked him three times if he
had mailed that return back in October, he said that he had. He lied, and it was in his stuffy box under the desk. So, I was angry and I told him I would reduce what I owed him by $350. It was only fair, and since we are both broke, partly due to his gross inefficiency, I am merely applying a credit to what I owe him.He then proceeded to blackmail me on my website. He said that he should have charged me $600 for my website, and
since I was playing this “game”, he called it, I should pay him $250. In other words,
he would reduce the $600 by the $350 I lost down to $250. We had no contract, he sat on my website for two years, and he verbally said pay me $250 initially for the website when I can. I had offered to satisfy that and some other monies
I owed him with the $350 I lost, but not before he turned to this blackmail on me.
The other part of this is that if I don’t pay him the $600 within 30 days, he will shutdown my website and kill my car club, since he has all the files. This really pisses me off. He screwed me over, and as usual, like a bratty 12 year old in a 30 year old body, victimizes me in the family business, costs me revenue and a potential client, and says he has been very nice to me so I owe it to him. He says for me to back off and we’ll be square, or pay up the $600. My Dad is a terrible listener and a poor communicator, and there is nothing I can do short of punching my brother’s lights out and going to jail, so what is the moral decision to make?