<p>It must be nice to be omniscient and know all the answers. And still be green.</p>
<p>It must be nice to be omniscient and know all the answers. And still find the time xiggi-ing and zaggi-ing around the CC forum. :-)</p>
<p>Was that supposed to be a clever repartee?</p>
<p>No, only a Grade 1 exercise in sentence composition. Do you realize that I am still green? :-)</p>
<p>Clearly, it’s not easy being green.</p>
<p>Even more clearly, people blinded with emotion would take consolation rather than reasoning. :-)</p>
<p>Frankly, you are full of it. A belief that people should honor a contract and pay their bills is not being “blinded by emotion.”</p>
<p>You are entitled to your opinion. 
But this is a nation built on law, rather than the prevailing emotion of a mob. And yet there are people here unwilling to let the law take care of the situation. Then maybe you are, in fact, telling the world that you are full of it instead. :-)</p>
<p>Have you no concept of a contract? Do your really think it is routine for people to have to take contracts to litigation or arbitration in order to be paid? Why do you think people have contracts in the first place?</p>
<p>I have the impression that you are very young and unduly impressed with your own faux sophistication.</p>
<p>Have you no concept of time? Do your really think it is routine for people to turn back time in order to fix a transaction? Why do you think people have payment arranged through a bank LC, an escrow, or something equivalent, so that payment is already secured by a third party before delivery of product, in the first place? I have the impression that you are very old and unduly impressed with your own faux sophistication in crying over spilled milk. :-)</p>
<p>StillGreen, if payment for services or goods were as routinely onerous as you seem to want it to be, the economy would grind to a halt and the USA would just be another second or third-rate dump where no one trusts anyone except their immediate family. The importance of honoring contracts is the foundation of economic prosperity.</p>
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<p>Our Chinese subsidiary found a workaround for the above… Delay paying a software license contract for a year or more, eventually the vendor sent it to the home office (us) and after another year of internal debate between us and our subsidiary, we paid their bill…</p>
<p>The same subsidiary routinely wants access to everything we develop here, or in any of our other subsidiaries around the world (Consumer Electronics) but they will rarely share anything they develop with the rest of us - and usually after a visit by US brass.</p>
<p>"“StillGreen, if payment for services or goods were as routinely onerous as you seem to want it to be, the economy would grind to a halt and the USA would just be another second or third-rate dump where no one trusts anyone except their immediate family.”"</p>
<p>NJSue, understood very well. But where exactly did I want “payment for services or goods were as routinely onerous” ? Please be aware that someone may have already breached a contract. Then should we fantasize about turning back time to undo the breach or should we exercise available venues and also try to prevent similar incidents? There are too much preaching of what we would prefer here and too little consideration of what needed to be done after the rubber actually meets the road. :-)</p>
<p>"“The importance of honoring contracts is the foundation of economic prosperity.”"</p>
<p>…which is only part of the story. The other part is, we still need to deal with contractual disputes in real-life and it is more pragmatic to take proper action as the situation has evolved, than merely re-stating some well-known principles as if they can automatically take care of fallouts. :-)</p>
<p>Well, StillGreen, most people are ethical enough that if they find out their payments due to me haven’t happened, they actually act as though they care, are sorry for the inconvenience and want to do something about it. That hasn’t characterized the run-around and continued stalling I’ve gotten from this company at all. (The latest? My invoices don’t spell out “US Dollars,” just "USD $xx.xx.) But, hey, continue to defend it by saying “at least I’ve got the legal system as a back-up.” You’re the one who looks bad. Not me.</p>
<p>PG, I don’t care about looking good or bad at all. And you should be old enough to shed off the burden of vanity. When we hire people, other than we require a good grasp of ethics, we also want them to be versatile enough to handle come what may. And as such, merely preaching some well-known principles, but without taking proper action, is a non-starter for us. Don’t know about you… :-)</p>
<p>Madison paper running a big series on UW/China expansion.</p>
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<p>StillGreen,
Are you American or Chinese?</p>
<p>Bay, Multinational, British. Does it matter? :-)</p>
<p>It gives some insight into your ideas about business practices, I think.</p>
<p>Not another implicit attempt of stereotyping again, huh? :-)</p>