Just because you say something doesn't make it true

The sheer fuckwittery of some people leaves me speechless.

At work the other day I decided it was high time I started chasing up on some overdue debts from customers. So I sent out one of my beautifully worded "Group" E-Mails to all the customers that owed and hoped this gentle reminder would get some money coming in.

Therefore imagine my surprise when some lunatic sent me this response:

"Please don't spam mail me. I don't live there and haven't been living there since January. I have paid and i don't owe you anything. Please stop harassing me or I will take legal action. I know there are a lot of people who has many problems with you guys at #@£$%^&. So please don't mail my anymore. I have delivered the key and said farewell. I do not wish to hear from you again."

This would have been sort of OK except for the fact that the moron still owes my company something in the region of £6000.

Nice going you tool, tell me you've paid and I'll believe you. We don't keep records of these kind of things. If I were you I'd spend your money on your debts rather than legal action.

Also our "harassment" of this tool consisted of about three E-Mails and four debt recovery letters. Things we wouldn't have had to send if he had paid in the first place.

My favourite piece of this idiotic letter is the "I do not wish to hear from you again" like we'd just say "Oh sorry. Keep the money you owe us. I mean shit it's not like we did anything to earn it besides (deep breath) buying the land, getting planning permission ,constructing the building, furnishing the building, maintaining the building, paying the utility bills and generally keeping to our side of your contract. All this nob had to do was live there and sleep on the bed we had provided, not to mention pay what is slightly less than the standard rate for an en-suite room with shared kitchen in North London.

But fuck it, people stopped taking responsibility for their actions years ago. The only people who support landlords is the courts and our legal system is so slow that they get a year rent-free in the property before we can haul their lazy arses in front of a judge anyway.

In case you hadn't guessed I work for a property management company in London and let me tell you its a constant fucking struggle. People are so down on anyone that wants to build anything new in the city its crazy.

It's generally people who don't live in central London anyway that moan that the new buildings "ruin the character of the area etc". Considering most of our property is built on what was once wasteland next to railway stations I have to disagree. London needs a good clean and a lick of paint. Sure the old buildings are nice but so was the Reichstag.

New shit is the future, more new shit!

As I mentioned in my last post its time to wise up, its not down to governments, councils or charities to make our cities grow and prosper its up to us to allow commerce to continue, for development to flourish and for new enterprise to provide jobs.

Lets get our heads out of our arses and pay our bills! With a bit of self responsibility and a firm hand we can smash this recession.

Well with that patrotic tirade directed firmly at my zeroes of followers I'll continue to yell at my TV in what will most likely be an empty room.