Dealing With A Brenda II

Being burnt by JM Kommunikation, Kadence is one of the violated creditors in the bankruptcy process, and as such got an update from the appointed solicitor by the
Danish Commercial Court.

Apparently the owner, Johan Håkansson, has refused to be of any assistance to the Court or hand over needed documents.

Imagine the amount of public resources used in order to force this unethical man to just follow the laws.

The lawyers can't find any of the company's statutory accounting, can't locate the money trail, and haven't found one ad contract for the inserts, Kadence was hired to write the content for.

Håkansson is a fraud to the bone alright!

On top of it, my intuition told me from the first second of meeting him that something was "off".

I didn't listen well enough and tried to rationalize my uneasiness by insisting I couldn't just walk away from a - potentially big - job "cos it didn't feel right". I was wrong, and I'm angry that he made me question my judgement, made me doubt me. That's real bad karma for ya!

Keith, as mentioned, most certainly would've dealt with the man in a much more direct & action packed manner. I don't do violence though, and I try to be zen about losing money, not ethics or friendships or self-respect.

But I do struggle with it!

Karma is a bitch!

You might as well accept the fact that evil is there and deal with it any way you can.
'Sympathy for the Devil' is a song that says 'Don't forget him. If you confront him,
then he's out of a job.'

That would certainly be true in the case of Johan Håkansson of JM Kommunikation.

The man is going out of business faster than I can say:
"So sick and tired of hanging around with jerks like you"!

Yet another freelance supplier burned by Johan Håkansson
Today I got a call from another freelance supplier, who's been burned by Håkansson.

Johan Håkansson got in touch with the person in question at one of the Danish
freelancer sites. And using the same dodgy tactic of heavily hinting at "12-14 big jobs
in the pipeline", as he used with me, he managed to persuade this freelancer into
delivering a week's job done in 24 hours!

Håkansson added some new lies to his "explanations" and then cashed in on
yet another "free" delivery by another small business owner, now bleeding!

But karma is a bitch, Johan Håkansson. Go google yourself!

Dealing With A Brenda

So I recently ran into a real prick of a client - a first! For real!
One true asshole, like Mick in the 80's, so by all means let's call him "Brenda".

His real name is Johan Håkansson, and he's behind the company JM Kommunikation
- as we speak crumbling in his unethical hands.

Håkansson ordered up one - with the potential of many more jobs to come - big job in January.

As a new client he had me slaving away to meet insane deadlines, breaking new grounds
and dealing with a bunch of unknown targetgroups. And a decent job I did!

It then turns out the bastard doesn't pay the bills! 

He's now gone into hiding, doesn't answer phone or mails, is filing for bankruptcy and has been in the process to do so since before he ordered a load of articles from Kadence.

What would Keith do?
...probably chase the idiot with a knife in his hand, or simply kick the wimp in the face...

At the end of the day you don't mess with me. There's no point in doing it.

So in trying to find my own knife-to-live-by I go with words. Mind you, they can be pretty powerful, once out there, you have to deal with them forever.

Johan Håkansson will have to face his shit like Spanish Tony Sanchez.

But for the sake of your self-respect and your pocket; Don't go near the bastard!