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“Investigator” with law firm called me
Posted on 9/17/19 at 9:54 pm
Posted on 9/17/19 at 9:54 pm
My former employer filed for Chapter 11 a few months ago. Many stockholders are filing lawsuits because the stock has crashed over the last year or two due to cheap oil and bad business decisions.
I get a call today from a California number and a guy introduced himself as an investigator for a law firm that has clients with a pending class action lawsuit against my former employer.
I told him I never held shares or stock in my former employer and wasn’t interested in joining a class action.
But wait.... he didn’t want me to join. In professional terms he told me he wanted dirt on the company from an internal source. I told him in professional terms to get fricked.
Do these dirtbags really have lots of success in cold calling former employees and getting them to go on record and reveal confidential information? And at that, not even selling me on the benefits if I did spill some beans? Just blew my mind that he had the nerve.
I get a call today from a California number and a guy introduced himself as an investigator for a law firm that has clients with a pending class action lawsuit against my former employer.
I told him I never held shares or stock in my former employer and wasn’t interested in joining a class action.
But wait.... he didn’t want me to join. In professional terms he told me he wanted dirt on the company from an internal source. I told him in professional terms to get fricked.
Do these dirtbags really have lots of success in cold calling former employees and getting them to go on record and reveal confidential information? And at that, not even selling me on the benefits if I did spill some beans? Just blew my mind that he had the nerve.
This post was edited on 9/17/19 at 9:56 pm
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Posted on 9/17/19 at 9:57 pm to jcaz
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I get a call today from a California number
I'm glad you told he/him/she/shem/shir/sham/hem to frick off.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 9:58 pm to jcaz
Weatherford?
Posted on 9/17/19 at 9:58 pm to jcaz
Some people are angry at their old employer when they lose their jobs. Hell, some take guns and shoot up the place. You really think that everyone has absolute loyalty to the old employer?
Posted on 9/17/19 at 9:58 pm to jcaz
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Do these dirtbags really have lots of success in cold calling former employees and getting them to go on record and reveal confidential information?
It only takes one.
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Just blew my mind that he had the nerve.
Maybe he thought you'd do the ethical thing and help out the shareholders your former company likely defrauded.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:04 pm to jcaz
Enjoy the subpoena and deposition. Those things are a party.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:06 pm to JohnnyKilroy
I don’t care about the shareholders or execs. They are the reason the company went downhill so fast. So obsessed with impossible exponential growth and had no clue about the industry it operated in. No fraud, just typical accountants and MBA’s that have no practical field experience.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:06 pm to buzwa
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Weatherford?
Negative. But yeah, oil field related.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:07 pm to jcaz
Sounds like you should do the right thing and return your salary over the last few years. Puppet.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:10 pm to Sao
Ah so it was you that called me.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:14 pm to jcaz
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Do these dirtbags really have lots of success in cold calling former employees and getting them to go on record and reveal confidential information?
All it takes is to find one former employee with an ax to grind.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:15 pm to jcaz
No, my Admin. You're part of the problem not the something or some such. Anyway, we paid someone else for the intel.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:16 pm to jcaz
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No fraud, just typical accountants and MBA’s that have no practical field experience.
I’d guess plenty of the stockholders were screwed by the execs just like you think you were. And most had no influence on running your business.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:16 pm to jcaz
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Do these dirtbags really have lots of success in cold calling former employees and getting them to go on record and reveal confidential information?
No, that never happens. If an investigator took the time to contact you directly, it means you're in the crosshairs.
What do you know and when did you know it?
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:18 pm to jcaz
Gotta protect Muh wage overlords
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:19 pm to NIH
Yep. He's a Ponzi punk.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:22 pm to jcaz
Yes they do.
A company I worked for went bk in a small town and burned some people that wanted payback.
These people started paying a guy to start talking to employees to dig up dirt on the owners.
I was roommates with one of the owners and they wanted me,to give dirt on him and his brother. So I pretended to be pissed and wanted to hurt them, guy spills the beans on everything everyone has told him and could I verify it and testify.
I wasn't going to give up crap but I go to my roommates dad's house that night and tell them who all had thrown them under the bus from butthurt feelings and the next day I met with the guy and he thought I was going to drop all the info I knew on him....i just started laughing and told him thanks for the info and to get fricked.
I didn't do it in a professional manner.
So, yes they have great success.
A company I worked for went bk in a small town and burned some people that wanted payback.
These people started paying a guy to start talking to employees to dig up dirt on the owners.
I was roommates with one of the owners and they wanted me,to give dirt on him and his brother. So I pretended to be pissed and wanted to hurt them, guy spills the beans on everything everyone has told him and could I verify it and testify.
I wasn't going to give up crap but I go to my roommates dad's house that night and tell them who all had thrown them under the bus from butthurt feelings and the next day I met with the guy and he thought I was going to drop all the info I knew on him....i just started laughing and told him thanks for the info and to get fricked.
I didn't do it in a professional manner.
So, yes they have great success.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:23 pm to jcaz
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No fraud, just typical accountants and MBA’s that have no practical field experience.
More common than not.
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:25 pm to PowerTool
I have a LinkedIn profile and came up when he searched for employees of the company. I doubt they have crosshairs on some low level admin.
I also left for a better job way before the bankruptcy happened. I’m not bitter towards them.
I also left for a better job way before the bankruptcy happened. I’m not bitter towards them.
This post was edited on 9/17/19 at 10:27 pm
Posted on 9/17/19 at 10:28 pm to jcaz
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Do these dirtbags really have lots of success in cold calling former employees and getting them to go on record
Did he ask you to go on record?
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