BG> He may well be a very nice fellow, but
BG> ethically he leaves quite a bit to be desired.

Yeah, thats seems pretty clear from how he faked away when Roger had
changed his mind. Not unusual, those sorts of small business people really
are pretty significantly ethically challenged many of them. Corse they
claim they dont have any choice given how competitive things are but IMO
they would behave like that anyway, even if things werent so competitive.

BG> What's more, it makes it hard to take his protestations
BG> re "the customer always comes first" seriously too.

True, they often dont even notice the massive holes in their claims.

BG> I was employed to replace a fellow who had burned himself out,
BG> but after 6 weeks, he (Roger) decided to come back, so my services
BG> were no longer required. Unfortunately, he chose not to be honest
BG> about this, and used some lame excuse about my not getting on with
BG> the other technical staff.  Utter bullshit too.

RS> Yeah, nothing more certain to piss people off than lies like
RS> that that you can see right thru. Particularly when its so
RS> clearly just faked up to get himself out of his predicament.

BG> What he failed to realise at the time is that had he
BG> been honest, I'd have happily stopped working there
BG> anyway, as it was simply too far away from here.

Yeah, meant to ask you about that. Some people will do that
for many years but I'm buggered if I ever would myself.

BG> The other down side is that I no longer recommend his business
BG> to prospective PC buyers either.  Even worse from his POV is that
BG> his company's name is now on the books as one which has attempted
BG> to renege on employer agreements by not paying all moneys owing.

Most of them dont basically give a damn about the later stuff.
A couple of the locals have a similar reputation for that sort
of thing and they appear to think that it saves them enough
doing that to be worth the opinion people have of them. And
thats in a relatively small town where the word soon gets around.

BG> So much for their purportedly excellent customer service.

RS> Yeah, they usually do resort to that
RS> sort of deliberately jerking you around.

BG> Funny thing is that he was a great one for extolling the value of word
BG> of mouth advetising, yet he's put himself in a position where anything
BG> I say about CHH will likely be bad.  Talk about a massive foot shot.

Yeah, usual small minded foot shot.

BG> Yeah, it looks like he's trying awfully hard to make life difficult
BG> for me, but if he wants to involve Jack in this pettiness, he's going
BG> to get a very nasty shock.  Maybe a few messages re his attitude
BG> in Z3_TECH or AUST_ADS would help him see the error of his ways?

BG> Fuck him, maybe I'll do so anyway.  :)

RS> Could be amusing |-)

BG> It'd actually be very interesting to see what position he adopted, whether
BG> he'd attempt to deny everything in an attempt to make me look bad, or what.
BG> Either way, the publicity would be completely negative from his POV.

True, its not like politics where you can argue it doesnt matter
a stuff what people say, all you care about is that you get noticed.
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