I know paying upfront should be a policy for things like this. But at the same time, most people aren't ordering that many pies.
As a business, if you have an outlandish order like this - demand the payment upfront.
She should’ve, at the very least, taken a deposit and had them sign a contract. That said, this is stuff you learn by being exposed to it, and it looks like she might be new to big corporate clients.
Big corporate clients do shit like this all, the, time.
The Tesla worker reportedly told the black business owner — beloved by other Silicon Valley heavyweights — that company wanted the pies delivered the following week for an event to commemorate Black History Month.
Oh, so Elton heard about it and vetoed it.
Yep:
When she inquired with Tesla about the cancellation, she was told the decision came from upper management.
Tesla will end up paying I bet. Bad PR and as long as the owner can prove the order with emails / receipts / whatever, you gotta think they'll pay up right?
I know that if there is enough of a correspondence it does constitute legal obligations. A verbal contract is still viable in most cases in terms of torts. They can sue for damages. Might take awhile though.
Musk fired the PR department in 2020.
Far out. I hope some Silicon Valley saviour comes to the rescue.
When no one was looking, Elon Musk defaulted on four-thousand pies. He abandoned 4-thousand pies.
That's as many as 4 thousands. And that's terrible.
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