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During the last few weeks of my role in the supermarket one of the managers that I wasn't familiar with started picking on me. At first I thought he was picking on me because I came from a European background, later I found out he treated majority of the junior staff this way and I finally understood that he was doing it just because he could.

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Every company follows its own credit policy set by management. For some the credit period offered to the customer is a week while for other organizations it could be as long as a month. Problems start when payments are not forthcoming within the time agreed upon. This is when a company has to initiate the accounts receivable collection.

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