Suggestions for sending a stern e-mail without sounding ANGRY.?

Dear National Director

Re. Outstanding $200 reimbursement

I have contacted your company on 15 June 2009 regarding the 200 dollar reimbursement that is outstanding. You have notified me the last time we spoke that I would get a response in one week. I am still waiting for your feedback on this issue. Kindly reply as soon as possible.

Regards

Your name

It sounds like either the people who owe you money are either trying to avoid you, or they are busy with other things, or they may have forgotten. Unless you can prove that they are in fact trying to avoid paying you, it might be risky sending an angry e-mail, even a stern one, if they mean no harm and actually just forgot. You should just express that you earned your 200$ reimbursement and that you have waited too much longer than you had to. Maybe you could say that it would be nice to (finally) receive it A.S.A.P.? Be polite, though. However, if e-mails do not seem to work, a face-to-face appointment would probably be more fruitful. It's more threatening to hear you owe money face-to-face to a former employee than in e-mails.

Hope it works out for you

Just say something along the lines of: To whom it may concern. I still have about 200$ left for you to pay me in reimbursement. I am sorry to disturb you, but I am slightly unhappy with the way I have been treated. The national director meant to get back to me within a week ,and that was a while ago. Please get back to me soon.

{your name}

Honestly, the best thing to do when you are this mad is to just be SUPER professional and as short as possible in any interaction. I normally go with something like the following, and make sure to FW: the previous email into the body of the follow up email:

*******

Mr[s] ___:

Please advise as to the status of ___.

*******

Optionally, you can also go with:

*******

Please advise as to the status of ___, which I originally emailed about on ___.

*******

I say the shorter the better personally, since you only really need to get your point across, and saying anymore could risk your anger being obvious.

I wish to follow up with you on our conversation last Monday concerning the $200.00 payment still owed to me by [the company name/location]. During our last conversation, you stated that you would investigate the matter. I would appreciate an update on the status of the payment and when I may expect the compensation owed.

Thank you for your time and attention.

[your name and contact information]

Simply state in another e-mail that you've been patiently waiting for his reply, and you think it would be the right thing to do to get back to you as soon as he is able to, not when he wants to.

remember this is your money, and your time wasted, you have no reason to hold back, but I can understand why you wouldn't want to come off as rude.

Another thing you can do, is show up at your work place and demand ( without being rude ofcourse) your pay.

and ofcourse... there's always small claims court

Be perfectly Polite. Do not use any slang and make sure to use PERFECT GRAMMAR. Also mention you have filled out a Department of Labor Complaint for Unpaid wages.

email again, be firm but nice. End with something like.....thanks for looking into this prompty.

just ask them for the money try not to curse them the **** out even if you really want to say stuff like please and thing like that