Adi Granov Instagram – Update: Accounting sorted it out in no time after 6 months of incompetence and disrespect from the editor Robert Redman. He messed up the process, didn’t give me any info I needed, didn’t acknowledge receipt of my work and didn’t inform me that it was being published. Due to his actions accounting weren’t even aware of a problem, but he refused to give me any further contact, a former employee did it on Facebook. As soon as I reached them, it was sorted.
I wrote an article for @imaginefxmagazine last year which was published in their January issue.
They still haven’t paid.
The art director who commissioned the work never acknowledged the receipt of the work, never informed me that it was accepted and published, didn’t send me the PO number or inform me that I could invoice. It was only when someone on my social media alerted me to the article being published that I found out and had to chase, for him then to display complete ignorance of their own system and payment processes.
Imagine FX/Future are now months beyond the payment terms in their own contract, and this is not counting the four months before I was finally given the PO number. All in, it’s now about five months overdue.
The art director’s constant line is that it’s not his job to get me paid, only to sign off on the work, even though their own paperwork makes him my one and only contact, but he completely ignores my requests for contact information for anyone whose job it is to sort it.
It’s only £200 and I will neither starve nor lose sleep over the money alone, but as a matter of principle I will also not let it go. Further more, it’s really a caution to anyone who might want to do work for them as if they can be so unprofessional over such a small amount to an artist who doesn’t need this work, I fear to think what they might be like towards those afraid to upset them.
This isn’t something requiring sympathy. I certainly don’t feel bad about it, just irritated by this useless person and the lack of professionalism. I post about this because their unprofessional practices need to be known. I won’t do any more work for them or support any of their magazines. | Posted on 06/Jun/2024 15:16:44
