Post by talon on May 27, 2023 15:37:32 GMT
Hi, I'm trying to get some good advice here. I signed up because I thought this may have happened to other scopers. I have a very nice thing going and have three really good reporters who I work for constantly. I was sought out by a reporter in New York. She's with the Southern District Court of New York and she found a very old ad I had up somewhere from years ago and she literally begged me to help her with a trial she had coming up. I told her I'm extremely busy. She had called me before some years ago and I talked to her for a long time and she really wanted to use me, but I was super busy then too. This time she wore me down. It was a very high profile case and I hadn't done an actual trial for a long time, just depo work. I told her I'd have to ask my regulars if they could spare me for a little while, which was kind of a big deal. They all agreed and I reserved this reporter my time for this trial. She rode me HARD!! She called me at least six times a day, every single day, lecturing me how perfect I needed to be. She would make me sit on the phone with her in silence while the files loaded to make sure I had everything. She took up SO MUCH of my time!! She had me working well past normal working hours. The entire trial was a daily. I worked my ASS off for her. I also, brought up more than once that I had been cheated by reporters before and I wanted a show of good faith on payment. She had me do a sample job for her a month before the trial and I billed her for it and she never paid me, so I said, pay that before the trial so I can see that you actually pay. She refused, said I was being ridiculous and that of course she would pay me. She's an OFFICIAL court reporter, blah blah. I feel very very foolish now. But of course she has never paid me for the trial work I did or the sample work I did either. It's in the thousands of dollars. I'm so upset. I'm in California and she is in New York. What can I do? I actually got the number to the judge's chambers where she did the trial and called there one day. I didn't tell the clerk what it was about, but I said I was "looking for her." She found out I did that and had the nerve to call me and leave a message saying never ever do that again. LOL I'm so angry, I don't know what to do. Any thoughts?