DISCLAIMER: I don't care if anyone believes me or not, I have pics to prove I was there!
Anyway, I tried to get there on Tuesday but couldn't make it and yesterday I was on Long Island most of the day. So I took the bus this morning from my hotel in NJ, the bus station (NY Port Authority) is not far from their office (less than 1/2 mile).
Apparently they were expecting me because when I came off the elevator on the 10th floor at approximately 9:35 AM EST, there was a screen door closed that prohibited any visitors from entering the reception area. These are the types of doors you see when a store at the mall is getting ready to open or close, it's not solid, you can see and hear through it.
Jeff the receptionist guy was not at the desk (I don't think he was there), and after a few minutes a woman who I'm 99.9% certain was Amy Johnson walked by in a hurry. I said "Are you open" and she said "yes we're open but I'm on a call" and disappeared. I could hear 1 other male voice in the back office somewhere. When Amy came by again a few minutes later, she said "we're going into a conference call and it'll be at least an hour", and she proceeded into a room just to the right of the reception area and closed the door. I waited around for a few more minutes but no one else came by and I heard no other voices, whoever was there was in that conference room. I was dressed in a suit and tie (and I looked damn good by the way), but she never asked who I was or why I was there which I found a bit strange, but she was in what I would call a "semi-frantic" state to get onto that conference call. MUST HAVE BEEN IMPORTANT (GIORDANO ON THE PHONE?)!
Also, when my associate was there a few weeks ago there were books and other things on and behind the reception desk (like normal). I didn't notice anything except the guest book and a small file cabinet so I peeked behind the desk thru the left side of the screen door and there was a box that was packed with 3 books on top of it, so it looks like a move out of that location is imminent.
So what does this all mean? In my opinion (and this is speculation only!), they are very close to finalizing whatever is happening. If a merger, they're packing up and getting ready to move to the new company. If restructuring, they'll be moving to a new office with a new business model most likely based on Spyder or some other application of the Kazaa technology. Remember Amy posted that video about the $25,000 office makeover 2-3 months ago, maybe they've had a gameplan for a restructure back then and when Fong's part was done he left and now they're bringing in Giordano to implement/finalize it? If there was nothing of value left, why bring in heavy hitters like Campbell and Giordano, it makes no sense to spend the kind of money they command if there's nothing to salvage.
I'm off to Connecticut soon, ya'll have a great day!
AI
