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Definetly not very professional of this guy but I would think twice before taking this company down the drain. I would present this tape to the business owner and give him the opportunity to apologize and deal with the VP. I don't think it is fair to the business owner, and the other employees who would be harmed by a slow down in business, to hammer this company in the media. I would give the owner a chance to make things right before doing something so drastic.

I would have to agree with these first two replies.

It did not cost you any money for him to leave that type of voice mail message.

You might have problems with your own reputation, because you never know how the news media will handle it, or what his response will be.

Who knows what people this guy is connected with.

I had a similar problem, except the business owner I have dealt with has cost me money because of the quality of work he did. I have pictures and video, as well as eye witnesses to the quality of work he did. I contacted the BBB in regards to his work, and within two days someone was pounding at my door at 4 in the morning, and had some other problems.

To make a long story short, I decided not to pursue the issue any more, and will mark up the loss and damages from his work.

Does anyone know of laws that help to protect the consumer? It seems there are alot of illegitimate contractors.

State consumer protection laws are overseen by the State Attorney General.

If someone you made a complaint against showed at the door at 4AM that is considered harrassment. I would have called the police. How scary that must have been....

You would also have recourse against the shoddy work in small claims court.

I too do not think its a wise idea to pursue this publicly.

You still need to let the employer know. This person represents the company, and he is doing the company harm. Who on this forum would not want to know that their employer was behaving like this? There is no reason for this type of behavior.

I also think you should leave the media out of this. It only makes matters worse. I would contact the owner and see how he or she resolves this. Now, a word of advice: take a person with you if you go to this company, a person with a cool disposition. The potential for this to get uglier is very high. Be careful. And know when to just walk away.

Thanks for all the advice

I difused the situation really easily by explaining to him why I stopped payment and encourged him to stop over to my personal residence to pick up another check, which he did and he apologized for leaving the message. He explained that he was fired from the company just a few weeks prior where he was VP of. He also thought I was trying to get back at him because he didn't allow me to return 2 pieces of product.

I thought about informing the company that he respresents, because he is a Dealer of their product (man this is hard without divulging the companies names lol).

We put the situation behind us, but an apology doesn't alleviate consequences. If anyone has a Sprint phone number you can hear how far over the line he crossed. I mean, if all anyone did was apologize, then we wouldn't need a legal system.

I don't want to defamate or slander the company he was just fired from, nor the company he is working with, but there should be a consequence when he told me that he was "Going to bury me in the F*****ing ground" and "Kick my F*****ing A**"

I am not angry by any means and laughed that he thought he could roll over a 22 year old (he's 30 years my senior). We both apologized, but he crossed the line, not me.

If you think you let him off too easily with the apology, I would go back to the earlier posts and think about what you wanted beyond that. If you want him to give you a financial benefit or something, then you need to lay out why and go back to him. I do think giving him a chance to make amends privately is important before you resort to public shaming

They don't call it the high road because everyone can do it. You so far have taken the high road. Let it go and move on. This person slipped, realized he slipped and tried to make amends. What is to be gained from anything further? Who knows, down the road you may really need him and because of how you treated him he repays the favor.

I showed up to a recording session that we were paying over $20,000 for. Well, the receptionist took one look at me as I walked through the door and said, "deliveries are around back." Without skipping a beat, I responded, "cool, if I see a delivery person I'll let them know. I'm the client." She apologized, I accepted. As a matter of fact, went out of my way to make sure she knew we were cool. Well, during a really rough period of time, I was super broke. I get a call for a really nice freelance assignment out of the blue. I do the assignment and while we are recording the radio spots at another studio, I asked, "how did you find me?" And they said, "so and so said you were a pleasure to work with and a great writer." The receptionist from the other studio was now a sales rep at this one. Advertising where I work is too small a community to nuke a relationship.

We need more friends in our struggle to run our businesses than foes.