My best friend and wife are fighting. Should I try and mediate or stay out of it?
Your Boss/Mentor asking for your wife to do things outside the scope of the job is somewhat crappy and is definitely presumptuous, but since this didn’t effect how much she paid your wife, she didn’t complain that it wasn’t done, and she kept to the original agreement & paid her, I think it’s a non-issue. While a thank you and compliments about the job would be wonderful, being payment is the acknowledgment of a job well done. Future referrals would also serve the same purpose. As for the delay in payment, your wife thought she was to be paid on Friday, the same week as the job ended. While it would have been nice for Boss/Mentor to remember her checkbook as promised, her expectation of an invoice is completely reasonable and would have served as a reminder to write the check. I don’t think not bringing the check to a social event the next day is a grievous offense either. Again, it would have been better if she took care of it right away, but she sounds a little flakey, and flakey peo
