Rod, at 09:11 on Feb 03 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

RS> Interesting fellow in many ways,

BG> A two-faced hypocrite, in fact.

RS> Interesting, wasnt sure if that was true or not, havent seen too much of
RS> him at all. Thats one of the odder things about people in that situation,
RS> you really do see the more markedly different people get into that 
RS> situation.

He may well be a very nice fellow, but ethically he leaves quite a bit to
be desired.  What's more, it makes it hard to take his protestations re
"the customer always comes first" seriously too.  I should have
realised anyway, as soon as I saw his and Randy's matching Commodore SVs. 
Bloody yuppies...

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

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

RS> The silly thing is that many people will actually do what
RS> he wanted in that situation anyway, albeit reluctantly.

Yep, that's essentially correct too.

RS> Doing it his way is guaranteed to piss them off totally.

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

BG> Since then, he's attemnpted to make things really difficult for
BG> me, WRT the replacement of a faulty 1.2Gb WD drive an my father's
BG> machine.  I also returned dad's faulty MS mouse late last year,
BG> and 9 weeks later, a replacement STILL hasn't arrived!

Still not here as of yesterday (Monday) either, despite their promises that
it was sent last Thursday.  We'll see, I guess...

BG> So much for their purportedly excellent customer service.

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

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

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

Regards, Bill

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