I spoke to a person at GCS…
I have personally called GCS over a dozen times, and on each of those occasions I alway got their answering service which gives a caller the very limited option of speaking only to someone in either (1) “sales” or (2) “support”. I recently discovered that GCS has a very hi-tech telephonic system that requires a caller to have a special “id-password” in order to get around this “sales or support” firewall, and to freely speak with anyone at the company … but I did not know that during the course of my dozen or so calls.
In all of those calls that I’ve made to the company, I always pushed #2 for “support”, thinking that “support” would be, well, “supportive” of my desire to speak to an actual human being about this trade. But after being utterly unsuccessful with such a rationale, THIS time I pushed #1 for “sales” … and I got an actual human being on the line.
The voice was male, and had a very brusque, no-nonsense ‘corporate’ wariness to it, so I abandoned all normal pleasantries and immediately cut-to-the-chase with my questions of him. After stating who I was I immediately asked him, in as bold a manner as I could summon, whether Global Convergence Solutions (1) was going to be a public company; and (2) whether Global Convergence Solutions was going to participate in a merger.
The “Voice”immediately (and in that very same brusque, no-nonsense ‘corporate’ manner) said that “we are not going to go public; and there will be no merger”.
In a daze I thanked him for his candor … and immediately hung up. And then I thought … whooooooooooooaaaa Clutch, you now possess some INSIDER information! This guy has just given you some INSIDER information!!!
But then that little voice in my mind that has protected me for over 50 years from leaping off ‘cliffs-of-faith’, calmly said to me: “But Clutch, why would a corporate employee give little ‘ol YOU (whom he doesn’t know from JACK) some very valuable INSIDER information, eh?”
And as I began think about that call to GCS, I immediately thought about all the many calls that I had previously made to that JUDAS-GOAT-SHILL by the name of Andrew Wells; and how he RELIGIOUSLY always told me that he was not permitted to answer any question that pertained to “insider information”.
And considering what Wells had told me (on SEVERAL occasions), I remembered that the GCS LOI was still very much an OPERATIVE agreement, as it hadn’t been cancelled; and therefore, ANY comment about the merger was, in fact, INSIDER information.
So then … was my call to GCS one of those “once-in-a-lifetime-moments-where-an-employee-blabs-the-truth … or was it a knee-jerk reaction on his part to give disinformation to one of the “FLIES” buzzing around the trade involving his company?
