>
> At 13:41 30/05/98 EDT, you wrote:
> >Uhhhhhhhhhh............no. The school superintendant won't even say hi to me
> >in the school halls. He'll say hi to my husband and kids, but won't even
> look
> >me in the eyes.
So he feels guilt. So he knows he owes you.
> Send 'em an invoice for consulting services, specifying in detail all the
> recommendations you made and that they have since carried out. (Hope you
> kept all your prepartion documents). Intimate that if they don't come to a
> reasonable settlement, you have a very hungry law firm that will be just
> delighted to take your case on a percentage of the settlement.
You could do that. Doubt you'd get much money out of him. Or you could
walk up to him and tell him you forgive him. Tell him you understand the
problem with budgets, etc. Then ask if he could acknowledge the plan so
you could list him as a reference to help you get more business. Tell him
that that has a lot value to you, and you are willing to forgive and
forget to get that.
> Then issue a press release to the local media letting them know you're
> suing for theft of intellectual property. I'll be anything they'll
> settle...may not be much, but you'll get something plus a huge moral victory.
Do you want your kids to do well in school, to get good help when
they need it? Or do you want the teachers and school board members to hate
them?
I think that in the long run, you will get more business if you are
kind and understanding, than if you show you can be hard to deal with.
If this were a commercial entity, not a community entity, I might
think otherwise; but in no case would I blast them in the press till I was
absolutely sure they were real SOB's.
Face it, you have already lost what money you might have gained. Why
throw good money and good effort after bad? Salvage what value you can --
references and some good will.
Life is not about winning, it is about enduring. To do that, you
need friends, not enemies. It is by favors and forgivenesses that we
endure the long journey of life. (I had a lot of those favors returned to
me these past few weeks. They make one hell of a difference in life,
which is why I gave them when I could. Put humanity before
professionalism, but don't skimp on the professionalism.)
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