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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #44 from previous page: August 21, 2007, 06:23:09 AM »
Jim sounds like the hippest guy that was ever running Amiga!
I mean he managed to pick up hot chicks at an Amiga conference.  Do you understand how difficult that is?  I mean he did import them, but non-the-less!  Then on top this guy may have been snorting some coke.  Shame on Gateway, he should have been promoted!  I mean that.  He may have been able to close some deals.  
 

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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #45 on: August 21, 2007, 07:45:55 AM »
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Please dammy... when HARASSMENT actually happens... and those times they actually lay under?


Wow, your employer has actually spent the money and time to send you to classes to cover this American law?  I can't tell you how many classes and videos I've had to endure over the years on this very subject.  How many classes has your employer(s) required you to attend to cover other US laws that includes Americans with Disabilities Act and other American civil rights acts?

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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #46 on: August 21, 2007, 07:53:31 AM »
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Wayne wrote:
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So .... yada yada... harrasment.

Neat. She really can't loose.

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I don't ... yada yada.  End of story.

Wayne


Ah :) Never mind then. Anyway I like the idea myself, and I'll try it out as soon as I get a female boss.

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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #47 on: August 21, 2007, 08:15:42 AM »
Wow so one of Petro's circus performers brought down the Amiga, bizarre!! (although noted that it takes 2 to tango)

I had never heard about this and ive been following the Amiga scene closely for about 17 years! Most likely because it was always through magazines rather than the net.
 

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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #48 on: August 21, 2007, 08:18:25 AM »
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don't know where ANY of this came from, since none of the people who were there have indicated ANY SUCH THING. She was not with Gateway (Annex were brought there under contract as paid performers), she did not hope to advance, there was ZERO court case.


Even as a contract worker, she still could have filed a law suit.  She could have easily stated she was pressed into doing it to keep her company in a good light with a married Gateway executive.  She was an imported talent, correct?  That could easily be playied up as Collas as a preditor praying on a vulnerable young woman in a strange land.  If Collas was just a janitor, I would agree with you there was no case.  He was in a precieved position of power as a GW Exec who could open many doors for her, or shut the her out of future GW contracts.  

I doubt it would be a huge money maker for her but I could easily see Gateway paying hush money to keep it out of the courts.  If he's done this once, he probably did it multiple times before getting caught. A law suit by contractor would probably spur actual GW employees to come forth with their stories and litigation.  Collas' attitude was probably just the icing on the cake.

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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #49 on: August 21, 2007, 09:12:40 AM »
sigh... I want Collas back!

Since you're all so informed, can anybody explain me why they fired Fleecy back in the days?

Thanks.
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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #50 on: August 21, 2007, 10:39:31 AM »
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sigh... I want Collas back!

Since you're all so informed, can anybody explain me why they fired Fleecy back in the days?

Thanks.


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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #51 on: August 21, 2007, 12:35:26 PM »
Is it just me or does anyone else think the Annex girl looks like a poor man's Gisele Bundchen?
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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #52 on: August 21, 2007, 12:57:54 PM »
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Even as a contract worker, she still could have {snip}

"could" being the only relevant part of that.  My point was that contrary to the direction of the thread, there were no lawsuits, there was no "hoping to advance", there was no sexual harrassment or anything else that some in this thread seem desperate to tangent out upon.

Truth to tell, ALL of this is speculative, because NONE of us were actually in that room at that time.  We can only relay what was widely regarded as fact at the time.  

We have zero *proof* that Collas actually got laid.  We only have the memory of second-hand rumor (from certain GW employees as well as the Annex group's loose-lipped gossip)  We have zero proof of the conversation between Ted and Collas.  

We're only speculating, but there's a difference between speculation on known "facts" and going on and on, making {bleep} up about lawsuits, harassment charges, and other things that had absolutely zero to do with this urban legend.

So far, the story of Jim's conquest is sounding like the story of the guy who accidentally bumped into the school bully in the hallway only to have it repeated back to him 5 years later as it becomes this huge legend about how the guy beat the bully to a violently bloody death in front of all the teachers and his girlfriend then walked away without any consequence..

Jim got laid.  Jim was let go.  End of story.  Actually, I wish I were that lucky.  As I recall, Collas' stock options with Gateway when cashed in were worth millions.

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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #53 on: August 21, 2007, 08:23:24 PM »
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ilgulamc wrote:

Since you're all so informed, can anybody explain me why they fired Fleecy back in the days?


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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #54 on: August 22, 2007, 06:18:38 AM »
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I dont understand.

Wow he had sex with a woman he's a grown man ffs he can do what he wants, he's perfectly able to make his own mistakes.



Yeah you don't understand (no disrespect to you intended).  You cannot do behavior that the company disapproves of or puts the company in a bad (public) light.  
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Yeah - shame on Jim Collas!
He dares to have sex with one (?) of the Annex girls without inviting us...
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Re: The real reason why Jim Collas left
« Reply #55 on: August 22, 2007, 04:58:36 PM »
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Dandy wrote:

Yeah - shame on Jim Collas!
He dares to have sex with one (?) of the Annex girls without inviting us...


Gateway spent lots of money to fly Annex to a show, the President of the division which spent that money then sleeps with one of the Annex girls, do you understand how as a stockholder for Gateway you might wonder whether Gateway needed to fly Annex to the show instead of say hiring another couple of programmers to work on new Amiga stuff, its almost like trying to name a convention site for the company without a product  :lol:
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