A post confirming stuff about MorphOS

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...and that would be just about typical for some people in this community.

As for you Wayne Hunt, do you have the courage to let others read this:

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Paul Adams"
Date: January 3, 2004 4:11:04 AM CET
To: "Wayne Hunt \(E-mail\)"
Cc: "Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck \(E-mail\)"
Subject: Official Corporate Position
Reply-To:

Wayne

From all reports, you have completed your responsibilities to transfer all required access data relative to the Genesi web sites. Now that we have complete access to the site, we will evaluate what you have actually delivered to Genesi and determine within the next two weeks whether or not we believe you are owed any further consulting fees.

As for expenses, please scan and email to me the phone bill you mentioned in your email of this afternoon. Also, regarding your New Orleans trip, please send me an email breaking down those expenses, with scanned receipts as well. Upon receipt of the breakdown, I will advise you on the timing of any reimbursement.

Effective immediately, you are no longer to use the email address wayne@genesi-usa.com for any purposes. That email address will be shut down and forwarded to me. After this email, I will contact you on your amiga.org address.

Now that all is safely within our corporate control, I will respond to your actions over the past several days.

You were brought on as a consultant on April 9, 2003 with the task of managing the Genesi web development effort and with the goal of having a completed web site with a fully functional on line store completed by July 15, 2003. At your consulting rate of $5,000 a month, the budget for the first phase of the web site was $15,000, not including the consulting fees to the people you were required to manage.

You did not deliver the functional site and additional expenses were incurred to conduct a web developers meeting in Sacramento to bring the effort to focus. Each month, the site was delayed. Faced with a deadline of October 15, 2003, you scrambled, coded with bubble gum and duct tape and put a marginally functional site on line. Over the next two months, you were requested to bring to the site the functionality you were being paid to deliver. You never did.

As of today, you have been paid a total of $38,000 in consulting fees, which represents full payment through December 1, 2003. You were paid more in consulting fees than any other Genesi consultant and delivered the least. As you may recall, you received your first check for a full month of consulting 9 days after being brought on board. I am attaching a full breakdown of payments that have been made to date. Even assuming you have earned any consulting fees through December 30th, the most you would be owed is $5,064.52.

Since you seem to think it may be somehow clever to disparage Genesi in your online postings, please be advised that we are prepared to respond. Genesi is a start up company, so delays in payment of obligations are not that unusual. Should we be required to respond to any on line postings, we will show that, for a start up, we exhibited a tremendous degree of tolerance for your incompetence before terminating your consulting services.

You were paid over twice the budgeted amount for your services yet never delivered the product you were contracted to deliver. In our dealings, you demonstrated a fundamental inability to manage either people or products.  You also do not appear capable of even managing yourself.

Your action in changing the administrative password to deny access to the site was appallingly unprofessional. Attempting to hold a web site hostage while demanding twice what you may reasonably be owed is despicable. Your mingling of corporate and personal data at zone edit jeopardized corporate data and made the access transfer process much more difficult than it should have been.

You have demonstrated without a doubt that you are not fit for any position of trust. Your posting of inappropriate images on the web site demonstrated your complete lack of judgment and fundamental unfitness for any position of responsibility or discretion. Finally, your false statements to me that you were told to post those pictures “ASAP” establishes your utter lack of integrity.

You never seemed to understand that consulting fees are earned by performance, not simply because you survived another 30 days. Considering your poor performance and failure to deliver the contracted product, your demand for anything demonstrates an incredible level of arrogance.

This email will be placed in the corporate records as the official position of Genesi regarding your performance as a consultant. Should you desire to provide a response to Genesi’s official position, I will include that in the corporate records along with this document. Having said that, I have no intention of engaging in a debate with you over your performance.

We have no intention of making any aspect of this position public. If, however, you decide to commence an on line discussion of Genesi, I can assure you that we will identify you as a disgruntled former consultant and post a response containing the points outlined above to place your comments into perspective.

Paul Adams
Chief Operating Officer
Genesi - USA

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R&B

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Yes, Wayne, *you* did open Pandora's box...

1. We do not owe you anything.  You had no contract and failed to perform the work required.  After Paul's email and the review of the situation we decided you were seriously over-paid.  No amount of name calling will change that.

2. There are others who unlike you we do feel need to be compensated for contributing something.  These people include Thomas, Jennifer, David, Kermit and Nate.  In Europe, there are others including Jacek, Grzegorz, Michal, Felix, David and Stefan.  We have made a pledge to them and we will keep it.  In fact, on that list every single one of them has received at least one partial payment (and some more) in 2004 with the exception of Kermit.  As far as we are concerned that is the complete list.  We have also fully paid many other people.

We came to visit you and Melissa in October 2004 and spent three days in Huntsville just to understand if you had the ability to really do what needed to be done.  You were fully informed of the difficult situation.  Your rants here only further confirm our opinion of your character, which unlike you we have not posted.

R&B  

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Wayne did not have a contract.  

Wayne was never an employee.

Read the email from Paul.

Wayne was paid far too much for far too little performance.

End of story.

R&B

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Wayne, you screwed yourself.  

You did it here on this site and did it when you worked for Genesi.  

Actions speak louder than words, Wayne.

We all stand before ourselves and our maker one day.

Best wishes,

Bill Buck

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That is a great idea T_Bone!  :-)  Please conduct the experiment and post ALL the information on this site.  Please provide all "breach of contract" information, or anything you can, or Wayne can, or anyone else can for that matter.  We cannot wait to see the results.



1. Surprise!  The "performers" are still being paid.  :-)

2. The Lawyers did a great job.  And, BTW, if we there one peep out of you know who about anything concerning MorphOS, bplan or Genesi...they'll be back.

And, Darrin, climb out of this mess.  You do not belong here.

R&B

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P.S. kgrach, could you post some proof, any proof about any of the serious allegations you made.  We are looking forward to the information you will document.

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@kgrach

No, you must not know what you talking about.  The injunctions issued under false pretenses were removed.  Further, we sold nearly all of our VisCorp stock and own all the VisCorp patents to this day.  How did that happen?  Guess you did not get the full story.  How about you do a little more research and post something more than what just spews from your mouth next time.

BTW, who said Carl never did his job?  We never did.  And, check with Carl while you are at it.  He got his last pay check.

Bill