Post by Stevenelsonfanclub on Apr 20, 2004 14:07:39 GMT 1
Its so far-fetched that I can't believe that anyone would write just drivel....
A company gets into severe financial difficulties by its association with another company. The people in charge deny all knowledge of the issues and claim they were unaware. The speak to their hard-core customers, who like their product so much, and can get it nowhere else, that they agree to help the company so they can continue buying the product.
The customers organise them selves and then go out to ask other potential customers to pay them some money to keep the company going, so they could buy the products sometimes too.
Whilst this is going on, lots of people ring and write to the company to ask if there is anything they can do to help the situation. Some offer money, others offer commercial skills and time to save the company. Unfortunately, no-one from the company rings back to the people who want to help them, even though they have been contacted several times over the matter of weeks.
Eventually, people at the company start to become concerned that they are not going to be able to keep working, as they have no money coming into their houses. A kind person contacts the company and offers to cover the costs and other items, so that the important people can continue to work and try to get the products up for sale again. Unfortunately, no-one at the company contacts the kind person, so they just wiothdraw back into the crowd.
Then the company contact the people making all this money, via a third party, and tell the people how they wish the money to be paid to them. The people collecting the money are concerned, as the company do not wish to tell them what the money is for, but they want it anyway. The collectors have to arrnge amongst themselves what they may need to spend the money on, without the company giving them that information.
During all of these things, the head of the money raisers tries to speak to the company, he attempts to telephone them, and indeed writes to them on three occasions over three weeks to try to get to speak to them, the company never respond to him. He bumps into one of the company directors and they just expalin that everything will be alright, pat him on the head, thank him and then carry on as usual.
Finally, the directors of the company reveal that there are major issues within the company and that they are unsure how to keep going, but they wish to, as the nasty bank people have followed due financial process and now, in effect, own the company. To try to ensure that they are not seen as associated with this, they attempt to sway the customers against the bank by reveling these facts.
During the novel so far, the company people only seem to have acknowledged the presence of the people trying to help about 4 times and I'm now 350-odd pages into the book. In adition, these have yet to admit that, despite being in charge, that they have any responsibility to those customers and the potential non-availibility of their favourite product.
The latest chapter I read also indicates that the company are only allowing information to pass to third parties via a local news organisation. The latest twist also appears to be that the there are a few people who have more money than the customers collecting money, but the directors are cautous about this, as they wish to stay at the company, despite the current situation.
Now guys, there are still another 200-odd pages for me to read. Should I continue to read it? I'm dead against it myself as I cannot believe that people would write about such an extreme, hypothetical, situation. I mean after all, its a good job that nothing could happen like this in real life isn't it??
A company gets into severe financial difficulties by its association with another company. The people in charge deny all knowledge of the issues and claim they were unaware. The speak to their hard-core customers, who like their product so much, and can get it nowhere else, that they agree to help the company so they can continue buying the product.
The customers organise them selves and then go out to ask other potential customers to pay them some money to keep the company going, so they could buy the products sometimes too.
Whilst this is going on, lots of people ring and write to the company to ask if there is anything they can do to help the situation. Some offer money, others offer commercial skills and time to save the company. Unfortunately, no-one from the company rings back to the people who want to help them, even though they have been contacted several times over the matter of weeks.
Eventually, people at the company start to become concerned that they are not going to be able to keep working, as they have no money coming into their houses. A kind person contacts the company and offers to cover the costs and other items, so that the important people can continue to work and try to get the products up for sale again. Unfortunately, no-one at the company contacts the kind person, so they just wiothdraw back into the crowd.
Then the company contact the people making all this money, via a third party, and tell the people how they wish the money to be paid to them. The people collecting the money are concerned, as the company do not wish to tell them what the money is for, but they want it anyway. The collectors have to arrnge amongst themselves what they may need to spend the money on, without the company giving them that information.
During all of these things, the head of the money raisers tries to speak to the company, he attempts to telephone them, and indeed writes to them on three occasions over three weeks to try to get to speak to them, the company never respond to him. He bumps into one of the company directors and they just expalin that everything will be alright, pat him on the head, thank him and then carry on as usual.
Finally, the directors of the company reveal that there are major issues within the company and that they are unsure how to keep going, but they wish to, as the nasty bank people have followed due financial process and now, in effect, own the company. To try to ensure that they are not seen as associated with this, they attempt to sway the customers against the bank by reveling these facts.
During the novel so far, the company people only seem to have acknowledged the presence of the people trying to help about 4 times and I'm now 350-odd pages into the book. In adition, these have yet to admit that, despite being in charge, that they have any responsibility to those customers and the potential non-availibility of their favourite product.
The latest chapter I read also indicates that the company are only allowing information to pass to third parties via a local news organisation. The latest twist also appears to be that the there are a few people who have more money than the customers collecting money, but the directors are cautous about this, as they wish to stay at the company, despite the current situation.
Now guys, there are still another 200-odd pages for me to read. Should I continue to read it? I'm dead against it myself as I cannot believe that people would write about such an extreme, hypothetical, situation. I mean after all, its a good job that nothing could happen like this in real life isn't it??