Wasn’t sure where else to post for advice from knowledgeable person, so here goes…
Recently started working for well-known tutoring company as a tutor (surprisingly enough!). This company is known for getting clients to pay upfront so they- the company- are always quids in and not owed monies or so I thought.
Firstly, one of my temporary students recently said that they’d not taken payment from them. At all. V odd.
Then cut to yesterday- us tutors received an email from a client (a school) that basically said the company had told them they were no longer providing tutors and all invoices had to be paid ASAP. No work for us: all cancelled. INFORMED BY CLIENT, NOT tutoring company!
Today I emailed and called the tutoring company several times. No reply to email; phone call disconnects immediately. I have emailed other tutors that were cc’d in to email but again, no reply as of yet.
I’m not personally owed much money (payday was last week, thank fuck), but others will be.
Biggest issue and mora dilemma: so it looks like they’ve ceased trading but where does this leave my responsibility to my current clients through them? The ones who have paid upfront? I have a couple of lovely regulars who I believe have paid several lessons upfront. Wtf do I do? Do I go still and not get paid? Or do I leave them to fight for their cash?
What would you do? I don’t want to leave them high and dry but I can’t afford to work for free. The travel time and expense is already high, yet I don’t want the guilt of knowing they’ve paid upfront for…nothing.
And yes, if this matter is not resolved I will name and shame on here, Facebook and Twitter.