QUOTE (Sengir @ Mar 30 2010, 12:07 PM)
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- End of 2009: CGL figures out there is something wrong, starts to analyze their accounts and figure out what and how the Colemans have to pay back
- One week before that work is finalized, the operations manager leaves
- The very day it gets serviced, the accountant quits
- Another week later the party line is "the process of paying back goes according to plan"
Those who quit made it quite certain that they wouldn't work with the "old guard" again.
the timeline: we basically already knew all that. we already knew from the first thread that they had been doing an internal audit, and the times that the two employees left (including the fact that their bookkeeper, Jennifer Harding, had quit just as the whole situation was coming to a head, and that the operations manager had quit a week prior). we already knew catalyst was planning to get the person to pay it back. this is not new information to anyone who has been paying attention.
and those who quit already had the information, and didn't need any public leaks to be aware of who they weren't going to be working for again.
this is still not relevant to the fans in general. certainly, it is relevant to the people who quit because of mr coleman's actions, and the response (or insufficient response, i suppose) of the company. but it doesn't mean a damn thing to you or me. i didn't quit my job at catalyst because of mr coleman's actions, and neither did you (this is no doubt due in large part to the fact that we were not working for catalyst in the first place). had we been working for catalyst, we would have had the information, and would have been able to make a decision whether to continue working for them or not based on that information, and we would not have needed any information to be leaked to the general public in order to do so.
again: what benefit is to be had to us, the fans, from this private correspondence being made public? because as BTFreelancer has pointed out, it can certainly potentially cause harm to the freelancers, and as has been also pointed out, you can bet that catalyst won't be talking to their freelancers any more now, which means the people who *do* have a stake in knowing, who actually *are* directly affected, financially, by this situation, are no longer going to be kept up-to-date. to me, this sounds suspiciously like it hasn't helped anyone who needed it, and has only potentially harmed people.
we didn't really gain anything needed. oh, it was perhaps nice to know the reasoning behind mr randall's decision, but it really isn't *needed*.