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| Posted on 06-Sep-2004 14:12 GMT by Anonymous (Edited on 2004-09-06 19:48:28 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 382 comments
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Due to censorship by Argo the thread is locked but it is interesting to see a major Anti Amiga Inc webmaster turn in to a Genesi attacker and a certain website defender.
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| Posted by Anonymous on 06-Sep-2004 15:39 GMT | From: "Paul Adams" <pauladams@genesi-usa.com>
Date: January 3, 2004 4:11:04 AM CET
To: "Wayne Hunt (E-mail)" <wayne@genesi-usa.com>
Cc: "Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-mail)" <bbrv@genesi.lu>
Subject: Official Corporate Position
Reply-To: <pauladams@genesi-usa.com>
Wayne
From all reports, you have completed your responsibilities to transfer all
required access data relative to the Genesi web sites. Now that we have
complete access to the site, we will evaluate what you have actually
delivered to Genesi and determine within the next two weeks whether or not
we believe you are owed any further consulting fees.
As for expenses, please scan and email to me the phone bill you mentioned in
your email of this afternoon. Also, regarding your New Orleans trip, please
send me an email breaking down those expenses, with scanned receipts as
well. Upon receipt of the breakdown, I will advise you on the timing of any
reimbursement.
Effective immediately, you are no longer to use the email address
wayne@genesi-usa.com for any purposes. That email address will be shut down
and forwarded to me. After this email, I will contact you on your amiga.org
address.
Now that all is safely within our corporate control, I will respond to your
actions over the past several days.
You were brought on as a consultant on April 9, 2003 with the task of
managing the Genesi web development effort and with the goal of having a
completed web site with a fully functional on line store completed by July
15, 2003. At your consulting rate of $5,000 a month, the budget for the
first phase of the web site was $15,000, not including the consulting fees
to the people you were required to manage.
You did not deliver the functional site and additional expenses were
incurred to conduct a web developers meeting in Sacramento to bring the
effort to focus. Each month, the site was delayed. Faced with a deadline
of October 15, 2003, you scrambled, coded with bubble gum and duct tape and
put a marginally functional site on line. Over the next two months, you
were requested to bring to the site the functionality you were being paid to
deliver. You never did.
As of today, you have been paid a total of $38,000 in consulting fees, which
represents full payment through December 1, 2003. You were paid more in
consulting fees than any other Genesi consultant and delivered the least.
As you may recall, you received your first check for a full month of
consulting 9 days after being brought on board. I am attaching a full
breakdown of payments that have been made to date. Even assuming you have
earned any consulting fees through December 30th, the most you would be owed
is $5,064.52.
Since you seem to think it may be somehow clever to disparage Genesi in your
online postings, please be advised that we are prepared to respond. Genesi
is a start up company, so delays in payment of obligations are not that
unusual. Should we be required to respond to any on line postings, we will
show that, for a start up, we exhibited a tremendous degree of tolerance for
your incompetence before terminating your consulting services.
You were paid over twice the budgeted amount for your services yet never
delivered the product you were contracted to deliver. In our dealings, you
demonstrated a fundamental inability to manage either people or products.
You also do not appear capable of even managing yourself.
Your action in changing the administrative password to deny access to the
site was appallingly unprofessional. Attempting to hold a web site hostage
while demanding twice what you may reasonably be owed is despicable. Your
mingling of corporate and personal data at zone edit jeopardized corporate
data and made the access transfer process much more difficult than it should
have been.
You have demonstrated without a doubt that you are not fit for any position
of trust. Your posting of inappropriate images on the web site demonstrated
your complete lack of judgment and fundamental unfitness for any position of
responsibility or discretion. Finally, your false statements to me that you
were told to post those pictures “ASAP” establishes your utter lack of
integrity.
You never seemed to understand that consulting fees are earned by
performance, not simply because you survived another 30 days. Considering
your poor performance and failure to deliver the contracted product, your
demand for anything demonstrates an incredible level of arrogance.
This email will be placed in the corporate records as the official position
of Genesi regarding your performance as a consultant. Should you desire to
provide a response to Genesi’s official position, I will include that in the
corporate records along with this document. Having said that, I have no
intention of engaging in a debate with you over your performance.
We have no intention of making any aspect of this position public. If,
however, you decide to commence an on line discussion of Genesi, I can
assure you that we will identify you as a disgruntled former consultant and
post a response containing the points outlined above to place your comments
into perspective.
Paul Adams
Chief Operating Officer
Genesi - USA
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Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.556 / Virus Database: 348 - Release Date: 12/26/2003
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