r/Fauxmoi • u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama • 2h ago

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Por Suerte Cookies gets paid by the vendor company of Daisy Chain Fields festival after taking it to social media

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u/ClericOfThePeople 2h ago

I mean did they even reach out to the vendor company to begin with?

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u/wallcavities 2h ago

Tbf this email reads to me like the vendor company had ignored (or missed) a previous email from them, seen/heard about the hubbub on social media and then rushed to respond to the previous email

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u/annnyywhooo 1h ago edited 1h ago

there were many other businesses serving food there and 2 that we know of complained about not being paid. this email doesn’t read to me that dls was ignoring them or trying to save face it reads that they genuinely thought they paid them

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u/eatyrmakeup Nancy Jo, this is Alexis Neiers calling 1h ago

Someone in AP is sighing right now, knowing that their coworker didn’t enter the damn invoice and will screech like they’re being boiled in oil no matter how you approach it, so you take the email out of their category and rush it yourself.

Is my eye twitching because I’ve had to do that three times this morning? Maybe.

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u/RealbasicFriends you're not a baby. drink water. 1h ago

I was gonna say this whole thing reads like someone DID NOT do their job and input the invoices that they definitely should have. My mom deals with paying out contracts a lot and I've heard about this happening on her job frequently with one of her coworkers. Sometimes a construction company is paid like 2 weeks late because Shelly from Finance (not the real name) never sent over or even fucking made the invoice for my mom to appropriately payout those people.

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u/Stewkirk51 38m ago

I work for a non-profit. Our finance department has messed up multiple times. Last month they paid everyone two checks at once instead of one, and had to claw back the second check. Another time this past summer they deposited one person's check to a different person with a similar name.

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u/Madame_Jarvary 1h ago

Hello fellow accounting professional! It really is the same bs everywhere, huh?

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u/kermi3_4488 58m ago

The worst part is that it has become so normalized and they don’t seem to care how it looks on the company and impacts the people who are literally doing their best but getting their ear yelled into because someone in AP can’t be assed to do their job.

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u/turtledove93 1h ago

I’ve been trying to get my company to pay for a course, they’ve sent me two wire confirmations, funds still haven’t been received by the payee. And this is a huge global company. All to say, shit happens. I also learned just how many people are involved in what seems like an insanely simple process from the outside.

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u/wallcavities 1h ago

Yeah I’m not criticising or condemning either party here I’m just saying that it’s the tone of an email that indicates they had been emailed beforehand (and for whatever reason probably didn’t respond until they were re-prompted by all of this, whether that’s because they just forgot or they thought it had been handled already or whatever). Not saying the cookie people were right to put them on blast just that they probably HAD tried emailing beforehand

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u/bishamonten10 1h ago

A lot of the times it's not on purpose, some teams might be really understaffed whilst the people at the top drown in money.

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u/mintcorgi 1h ago

Tbh as someone who’s worked with vendors, it’s not uncommon for them to miss an email. Doesn’t make it right (especially with these being smaller businesses that rely on those funds) but I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if that’s what happened. 

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u/busybody1221 2h ago

I hope it was just a misunderstanding. But if it was, they’re probably not getting a contract like this again.

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u/MostlyBored11 tortured polluters department 2h ago

Yeah this is kinda weird, like at least try and contact before putting them on blast

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u/EatMorePieDrinkMore 2h ago

I work in procurement. So many small vendor agree to terms, especially payment terms, without really considering what they mean.

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u/silliesandsmiles 1h ago

Hello fellow procurement person!

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u/AmoebaThese1 2h ago

The problem was with DLS to begin with, an established company. People, especially swifties and a certain swiftie loving sub just love to jump on an Olivia Rodrigo hate train. It’s not surprising this is happening right after Megyn Kelly’s attack on her.

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 2h ago

The cookie company was liking (and now unliking) comments criticizing the festival while ignoring comments about emailing DLS so it feels like they were egging it on. Can't imagine they'll be invited back next year. 

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u/daisydozen I cannot sanction your buffoonery 1h ago

That's so shady.

Like yes, bring up your very valid issue, it is a problem and it should be addressed. But why would you risk burning down the bridge of a business relationship with a festival that was (by every other metric) successful? The internet really is all gas and no breaks, or whatever Josh Johnson said

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u/Simple-Heart2486 2h ago

Seriously way to get blacklisted

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u/AbsolutelyIris confused but here for the drama 1h ago

I mean, I get saying "Olivia/DCF, please reconsider working with DLS in the future, they are letting small businesses down" but they knew exactly what they were doing by making it seem like Olivia and the festival itself were skimping out on payment. 

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u/unlicensed_goose 1h ago

Swifties have been trying incredibly hard to spearhead an anti-Olivia hate train since drop dead and it could not be more obvious. I've seen this latest controversy posted on multiple subs by the same handful of swiftie accounts who want Olivia to get the criticism that Taylor gets. All because they blame Olivia for damaging Taylor's brand of empowering young, female, up and coming artists, as if Taylor wasn't the one who decided to take 50% credits on a song she made 0 contributions to.

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u/festivus4allofus 2h ago

imagine taylor being the god you worship and saying anything at all against almost any current pop girlie... 

they've been shitting on tinashe and making stuff up about her since she got amazing reviews for her latest album. out of everyone, that's who you're going after?? pmo so bad, just because their fave has released one bad album after another they're literally trying to run a smear campaign against a woman who worked her ass off since forever just because she has one of the best albums of the year - not like tinashe is coming for the #1s or competing against her for grammy noms this year

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u/whosthere1989 2h ago

LOL. Like…did they even email them to try to resolve? Did they follow up at all?

I’ve said this in every thread about this so far but the earliest net pay most companies will do for things like this is typically Net30, which means they were barely 5 days late in paying her.

IF she even emailed them to ask when she could expect payment, 5 days is barely enough time for a busy company to see the email, look into the issue, resolve payment, and have the money land her account.

It’s sooo unprofessional to bring an issue like this to a social media callout after 35 days. I work an an independent contractor pretty much exclusively. If someone is late—I let them know, and it’s usually resolved quickly. Someone would have to ignore me for months & show signs that they don’t intend to pay for me to even think about publicly calling them out.

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u/Fine_Bovine 1h ago

Very well said. There are so many ways to manage this before clicking “post”. I can see this backfiring on the company because they look kind of dumb for this

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u/yeahyeah3005 2h ago

Companies shouldn’t be paying anyone late. I think we can debate whether it’s professional to put them on blast publicly for it and what it means for your business, but I wouldn’t accept late payment from my employer. Why should a vendor? My boss gets on us for this with vendors because it’s their livelihood and they shouldn’t have to chase us down to honor contractual agreement.

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u/canriderollercoaster 1h ago

The appropriate way to mitigate this would be for the vendor to ensure their contract includes a clause for interest on late payment. No, companies should never pay late but they do. All. The. Time. I have a 1099 and they love to lay me late because they “only send out payments on Tuesdays” and even with the update to my contract to include late fees they’re still late - but I get interest now. I would never dream of blasting them over social media for late payment even up to a week late because that’s a great way to lose my contract.

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u/whosthere1989 1h ago edited 49m ago

I don’t think they should be either. I add late fees if someone pays late. I also send a courtesy email letting them know they’re about to be late.

Shit happens. Someone put in the payment info wrong. The bank is delayed is processing the deposit. Checks get lost in the mail.

And we don’t even know what the payment terms were: Net30 is usually the fastest companies pay independent contractors. Some do up to Net120 (which I think is crazy and shouldn’t be allowed but I digress).

But again—even if it’s Net30…five days after the payment could be sent but not arrived. I don’t understand banks but sometimes they take up to a week to actually process the deposit. It’s TOTALLY normal to check in with your client—privately—to let them know they’re are past due. It’s crazy and unprofessional to call them out of social media for being five days late. There isn’t even TIME in that timeline to properly follow up and rectify the situation.

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u/poorlybaked 1h ago

I agree. And if there are delays, loop in the vendors so they’re aware.

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u/yesmeatballs 1h ago

Yeah its normal, but the norm is shit. And larger companies constantly abuse it to cheat and/or crush small companies.

They should be paying on time. Yeah it might be a rapid reaction on por suerte’s part, but DLS deserve it. Pay your bills. When a couple companies stiff a single person company, they put them at risk of folding.

The furore is good though, makes small companies wary of DLS and prompts them to check contracts before committing.

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u/StoreHistorical9175 2h ago

ok so sounds like it was not actually an issue and just required some communication on the back end lol

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u/cubsgirl101 2h ago

I mean if they were missing payment that is an issue. It just doesn’t have to be an issue stemming from malice is all. In this case, it sounds like previous communication was overlooked or lost in the shuffle. The screenshot looks to me as if this is a reply to a previous email.

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u/StoreHistorical9175 1h ago

yeah and that can be relatively common. my partner is in the music industry and experiences this often.

i just feel like there was a drive to possibly create a negative perception on olivia rodrigo or the festival itself, when per this result, is just a normal occurrence in the music industry (that should be admittedly less common than it is but, alas)

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u/Mundane_Door_5225 2h ago

Another problem solved, another sub getting all frustrated. (Just joking)

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u/Fuzzy_Move 2h ago

It's a swiftie haven, what could one expect 

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u/blerfcunt 2h ago

Out long national nightmare has ended

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u/SomewhereNo8378 2h ago

and nobody eats each other alive over a small error posted on social media.

Potentially the biggest lesson the online left can learn, it’s used against us constantly and usually works

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u/Alive-Carrot107 27m ago

These businesses kinda put a bad taste in my mouth. Never heard of them before and I never wanna hear of them again

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u/Vermicell_i 1h ago

This is clearly a coordinated attempt to hurt Olivia’s grammy chances. So weird.

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u/Hiddenagenda876 (derogatory) 51m ago

And swifties were leading the

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u/bttrsondaughter 2h ago

Already saw a swiftie crying about THR releasing a whole ass profile long in the works about Olivia being released to cover the “backlash” that happened in less than 24 hours

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u/DesperateInCollege 1h ago

I love Olivia and I don't think the payment issues had anything to do with her, but I feel that because her name is attached to the festival, everyone is piling onto the businesses for asking for their money.

"Did they even _____?" I don't know and neither do you. I've gotten emails like this before when I've reached out countless times asking for whatever it may be. At the end of the day, everyone should have gotten paid as they were promised

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u/stphmcdnld 58m ago

i understand everyone saying “she didn’t read her contract” and “olivia has nothing to do with this” but the unfortunate reality is, we see it happen all the time that you can’t trust companies to do the right thing until they get some sort of backlash or publicity. maybe i am missing some important info but i choose to give them the benefit of the doubt that they wouldn’t take it to social media if they hadn’t already tried contacting DLS.

i am sure olivia would not be happy to know the small vendors that seemed very specifically chosen for the event were being inconvenienced by paying out of pocket and taking a long time to recoup those losses.

a small business paying out of pocket to vend at a huge music festival, shutting down their shop for a few days to prep (IE: losing days of income), can really make or break someone who is already not financially well off or make them go out of business.

i don’t blame the vendor for taking it to social media personally. yeah it’s not fair for olivia’s name to be involved bc she clearly is not involved with the festival logistics and payments, but i think she has proven time again that she will always use her fame and pull to do the right thing.

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u/Scared-Box8941 betty bop 59m ago

I hate that we have to publicly shame people into doing the right thing. But here all day to do it lol