Everyone needs to give a big thank you to Paul McCall for hosting this list for almost 5 years. Paul stepped up when I was in a pretty tight pinch.
Five years ago, I was given 30 days to get all my hosted stuff off of my own company’s systems. Not cool. I had payroll, time clocks, accounting, inventory management, asterisk, NAT/SAN storage, web hosting, mailman, email, database, CNC manufacturing network, solidworks server, featurecam server and probably a few more. I had previously been told that I would have to start paying for this, I kept asking for a quote. Instead of a quote they started corrupting my data. Started with the PDF files, then the next day the Excel files, then the next day the word docs. Funny thing, a little voice in my head told me to get a clean backup. The very next day after the backup the corruption started. Then instead of a quote I got an eviction notice. Then at the end of 30 days they sued me. Which lasted for 4.5 years. In the end, financially, I am very glad they sued me... still not supposed to talk about it, they wanted it to be kept confidential. You can imagine why. I also have a non disparagement agreement that covers the company and the employees. Funny thing, a bit over a week ago those Beehive boys all got fired. Yep. Those three clowns that I hired, that I gave equity to that stabbed me in the back, helped to throw myself, the longtime CFO and a bunch of other people out of the company, took over our jobs and were the main actors in that lawsuit (they sued most of the people that were defenestrated). (your word for the day) So, those captains of business and industry that have made my life hell while showing me how it is done, showed me how it is done I guess... And since they are no longer employees my non disparagement & confidentiality agreement I signed as part of my settlement does not cover them! I do NOT include Bryan Scott in this list. He was not one of the three. He did not get fired. He quit about a year ago due to many “problems” within the company. He is now a college teacher. From my perspective he is the only one that didn’t lie during the depositions. So thanks Paul. And thanks to lots of people, many of you, that supported me through that rough patch.
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