Bing, Bang - Budway's Gone
Sure looks like Leslie was fired to me too. Kind of sad actually - I am sure that she performed some of her duties competently, but as an IR person she was, well, to put it as politely as possible, completely out of her depth. (And there was, of course, the 'Coco' incident.) There is really no point on beating this dead horse any more except to say that I would have canned her eons ago.
So much for Airys' campaign to replace Steve with Leslie. What boggled my mind about this campaign was the fact he thought that someone with such a pathetically poor grasp of the English language, and lips that are loose enough to sink a veritable navy, had what it takes to be the CEO of a public company. Then again, maybe all it really takes to be CEO is the willingness to get overly chummy with internet touts and dupes.
Speaking of chummy; Leslie and PV have always seemed to be unnaturally close, and she has always defended his supposed honor and integrity against the growing mountain of evidence that would seem to show that Mr. Vucicevich is anything but honorable and upstanding. Does leslie's departure and the immediate disconnection of her company cell phone foreshadow Steve distancing himself from PV, as well as any others who may be problematic?
Then again, what do I know - I don't even bother to call the company to try to get them to feed me their latest evasions, so, as Redskies would say, I know nothing.
Damn, that Kool-Aide sure is one hell of a powerful hallucinogen.