'It was... very petty of me: Project manager sends massive 600+ page email to spite finance department

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    Petty revenge against corporate finance department. So I work as a project manager for a small social business; we assist vulnerable people to obtain items they need. There is a large organization, and we use one of their small trading arms to purchase and deliver items to the vulnerable people we work with. We receive invoices from their large corporate finance department for payment. As
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    project manager, part of my role includes checking all these invoices, making sure they match the order we sent out and setting up the schedule so that our finance officer can make the payments. You can guarantee in a batch of invoices there will be multiple mistakes and I have to send them back to be corrected! I keep meticulous notes! I know what has been paid, what hasn't and why! This week I received an email with a zip file attached with
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    80 invoices inside and a rather abrupt email stating "these invoices have not been paid, make payment within 7 days and forward remittance advice to avoid further action" Well that I me off for starters! There was absolutely no way we had not paid 80 invoices!!! So doing my due diligence, I checked every single one just to be sure we hadn't missed any of them! It took me all afternoon, which I me off more because I
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    had other work to do! This was obviously due to them not doing data input and proper checks they needed to at their end... Out of 80 invoices, not one single one had been unpaid due to any issue at our end! I could have been nice and helpful, I could have pulled off just the information they required... But instead I chose petty revenge! I asked my finance officer to pull off remittances for all invoices from them since April 1st 2022 talking 600+ list (bear in
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    mind it doesn't list in invoice number order). Dear Corporate, Please be advised of the 80 invoices you have demanded payment for: -59 have been received and already paid -5 are not invoices intended for our company -11 are ones we have returned for corrections and not received back- please check previous emails
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    • 5 are duplicates which have been paid under different invoice numbers! Please ensure all relevant checks are completed before contacting us in the future, we are a small organisation and do not have the capacity to investigate invoices we have received, processed and paid correctly.
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    I attached the 600+ list of remittances on a PDF (so they couldn't copy and sort) and sent the email! Now I could have been nice, and sent them the document I had worked on, telling them specifically which invoices had been paid, which ones had been returned for corrections and which ones were not ours.... But, they don't pay me and I'm not doing their work for them!
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    The pleasure I got from knowing they would have to actually do the same, if not more work than I had done, searching through the zip file and remittance list, finding the 80 invoices, checking emails, checking for duplicates, ...well it was immense and very petty of me!
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    opschief0299 That was absolutely glorious! It actually made my day reading this! Fantastic job.
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    nakedwithoutmyhoodie I attached the 600+ list of remittances on a PDF (so they couldn't copy and sort) Oh...wow...that is such an incredible " you" power move, I'm just speechless. Well done!
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    Ramen Noodles620 What a ☐ on their end. Would think someone would have double checked to see if an organization really had not paid 80 of their invoices.
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    stunkshoezz Did they give you more grief after that email? i would be interested to know the aftermath.
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    Traditional-Panda-84 Please tell me it was a flattened, image-only PDF!

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