Yes, definitely a sequel is in need! Regards, Chuck
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Jay Weekley <[email protected]> wrote: > I think a sequel to "Sleeping with the boss" would be a best seller. > > Chuck McCown wrote: > >> There has always been McCown Tech since the early 19902.. It was the >> owner of intellectual property (Patents, designs, trademarks etc) as well >> as the owner of all critical production machinery. My wife and I own this >> 100% >> Beehive Telephone Company was started in 1963 by Art Brothers. He died a >> couple of weeks ago. >> I worked for Beehive Telephone off and on for about 30 years. Quit 4 >> times fired twice. >> I actually came from Oregon Telephone. Art hired me to get him out of >> trouble with the REA (now called RUS) in 1986 as he had used materials that >> were not allowed under the loan program and they were denying him loan >> draw downs. I was a central office installer and a REA contract inspector >> in Oregon so I knew the proper way to do things. Art did nothing >> properly. So I helped Art learn how to properly build a telephone >> company and get out of trouble with the feds. (It was a mess, crappy PBX >> systems in semi trailers in the desert as central offices). >> I had a hard time working for him and his wife de jour for any length of >> time and went to Quincy Illinois, started MTC and manufactured airborne PBX >> systems for head of state, corporate and military aircraft. Art kept >> trying to get me to come back to Beehive. I did as a consultant and >> contractor and eventually stayed in 1999. >> In 2003 I used the insurance settlement from a personal tragedy and >> started the WISP Wireless Beehive with Art Brothers. 50/50 >> I started WB Manufacturing a couple of years later having developed some >> antennas used by Wireless Beehive. >> In 2013, we sold to Digis. Art told his wife (7th wife, about 40 years >> his junior, second Russian wife (6th if you don’t count common law)) that >> we got $90M and I would not give him any. He was a character. >> Prevaricator and confabulator without peer. She started to get paranoid I >> think (a common trait amongst Russians). >> During Wispapalloza the fall of 2013, while I was in Vegas, Art, his wife >> and her attorney rolled in and cleaned out a bunch of bank accounts. He >> told all the employees he was dying of a brain tumor and was going to >> travel the world. They engineered a takeover firing of myself, CFO, COO >> and several others. Most of the employees I hired and gave equity to all >> sided with the coup. (A regular paycheck is more powerful that integrity >> and loyalty I guess. ) Brain tumor never reappeared... >> And then they started suing almost everyone that got fired. This has >> been going on for a couple of years. >> So, no I was not about to continue to operate WB Manufacturing to the >> benefit of a guy the was suing me. WBM is also subject to the lawsuit as is >> my wife, the wife of the CFO, and a handful of other going concerns they >> shut down the the frenzy of attempting to rain fire from the sky. (Then >> even bought the mortgage of my factory building from Zions bank, told me >> they were now my banker, declared me a risk and said I was in default due >> to extraordinary risk and were going to foreclose. I was never late on a >> payment, they even returned payments they had accepted and refused to take >> any more payments... I have a TRO against them and a pending suit against >> them on that too) >> MTC was in operation and was a going concern and owned all the IP and >> rights to everything. So MTC just started selling what it already owned. >> WB Manufacturing is in mothballs and has been for a long time pending >> litigation and liquidation. >> Art has done this before. 21 years ago this month, he did almost the >> exact same thing to his kids. Threw them out, sued them, and really never >> talked to them since. >> He was a ward of the state growing up. Lived in 13 different foster >> families. Learned to burn every bridge, take every advantage and make no >> permanent friends. He has burned everyone that has spent more than a >> handful of years with him and every business partner he ever had that had >> skin in the game. I knew what he was like when I came back to Beehive in >> 1999. That is the reason MTC solely owns the IP, critical production >> equipment and all rights. It is also the reason I owned (I thought) my own >> building... >> The 30 somethings (sycophants?) that he assigned to take the jobs that >> were vacated are currently living high on being captains of business and >> industry and trying to continue to show the old guys how difficult they can >> make things for us. Tough guys, real hard ball players... >> Hubris Writ Large. >> As long as they keep the Russian happy, they will probably have jobs... >> So, did that answer the question? >> *From:* Rory Conaway <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Sunday, April 17, 2016 9:01 PM >> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Subject:* [AFMUG] what is the difference between mccown tech and beehive? >> >> Are they 2 separate companies now? >> >> *Rory Conaway **• Triad Wireless •**CEO* >> >> *4226 S. 37^th Street • Phoenix • AZ 85040* >> >> *602-426-0542* >> >> *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>* >> >> *www.triadwireless.net <http://www.triadwireless.net/>* >> >> ** >> >> “I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.” >> >> >
