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pink floyd

02/05/08 8:31 PM

#29887 RE: Paracelsus777 #29886

I can agree with that. And "polite" should be emphasized. Too many have sent nasty accusative letters in the past. We will get nowhere that way.
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Big Mur

02/05/08 9:31 PM

#29892 RE: Paracelsus777 #29886

I do not intend to be confrontive with this question... this is just my thinking:

How many times does this have to be presented to management? They have even PR'd in the past that they are aware of shareholder concerns on these subjects.

IMO, nagging until you get what you want the way you want it when you want it is the technique more normally employed by children, starting from around the time they learn to walk.

If it were me (not that I'm any kind of accurate test subject) and I'd received months of phone calls, emails, nasty-grams, threats, harrassments, attempted fakes, demands and I'm sure there were plenty of "polite" requests as well... I might be inclined to ignore the requests out of spite (more like I'd entertain the thought, much like one entertains the day-dream of one day telling the boss to shove it). But if I thought I had legitimate reasons for handling information like I am, I would not give it out either, no matter what a bunch of people on an internet chat board have to say about it.
If it were me, I would be thinking "I don't even know who these people are! For all I know they could be a bunch of renegade garden gnomes on the lamb and looking to score some cash to fund their time on the lamb."
And if my previous experience with folks on internet message boards had been, that would even be more argument against just throwing information out there. Why? Because that previous experience would be that no matter who good the information, you still get slammed, bashed, criticized, etc. It's a given that you'll never please everyone, but that doesn't mean people need to go so far as to get nasty about it.

I can just imagine the discussion if someday Keith's kids or grandkids got on the internet one day and stumbled across iHub. They might get the impression that Keith were some kind of serial axe murderer that kicks dogs and runs over little old ladies crossing the street after reading some of the stuff that's appeared on this message board over the last year plus.

If it were me, and I'd just spent nearly a year dealing with people (one or two) who when I DID try to be accomodating, only took the information and spun it, and misrepresented it, and manipulated it for their own purposes, with disregard for what was best for the company or the other shareholders.... I would be inclined to just ignore any internet message boards, and keep my focus on running the company, and getting the work done, and keeping the priorities in their proper order. PRs would be released when it made the best business sense to do so, as determined by those within the business.
I'd be at the point where even "polite letters" would annoy the heck out of me, when it's over subjects that have been thrown at me so many times before. It would make me stiffen my neck and set my resolve to stick to my guns, and do what's best for the company, and what will help me be most effective in my role within the company.

Maybe if folks just gave it a rest for a while, there might be an appropriate time just down the road a little bit, when the questions can be politely brought up again.

But that's just me.