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[Originally posted @ www.TellingTalesTold.com 06/02/12]
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Coming Soon to a Kindle near You? Soon to be a Minor Motion Picture? A Dark Comedy of Errors and Terrors at the Hands of the Heinous Anuses Who Too Often End Up (our asses) as our Employment Frenemies?
Here it is, folks, the story that started it all:
Pardon my riff, but to paraphrase Carl Sigman, “Where do I begin to tell the story of how great a shove (out the door and a kick to the curb) can be?” Or Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Why do I loathe thee? Let me recount the ways” in which I have unwillingly found myself sitting at the ‘ol pc, beginning a blog, having never blogged before and wondering exactly how and where to start, wondering if it’s best to begin with the opening paragraphs of a letter I recently sent to Viva, Don, Jim and Minnie concerning the matter at hand, and thinking it best -- if only to give myself a little more time to get my thoughts in order in order to share them, and the whole god damned story (and to let others share their god damned stories too) with you in order to provide an opportunity at a safe cyber place to get ourselves a little bit of what everybody seems to want these days – THE BIG C – CLOSURE – and to give others a chance to read all about it because, as our extended motto says:
“The truth, no matter how embarrassing (for some) is not defamatory.”
TO: Olympic Property Management: Viva Greco, President; Don Greco, Vice President; Jim Purdy; Minnie (Farr) Purdy
FROM: Christopher Corbett-Fiacco
DATE: March 14, 2012
In answer to the question, “Can’t he just get over it?” -- in the absence of a genuine resolution to the situation at hand: “No.”
If a company called Corbett-Fiacco Property Management and I had done to you what was done to me seven years ago by Olympic Property Management (OPM) and by each one of you as associated with the situation as it unfolded (even if, unlike Jim, your actions were unplanned and without outright malice), you would have sued me in an instant, and rightly so. And even if, for a variety of reasons, you had let seven years pass without consulting legal advisors, the answer would be the same for you, as it is for me, as iterated above.
Because, quite honestly and simply, regardless of the time frame in the history of our lives during which it took place, a wrong was done to me by OPM, and by you, which cost me my livelihood and my housing at the time, as well as a great deal of mental, emotional and physical pain and suffering, and although statutes-of-limitation have expired insofar as civil litigation is concerned, there is no statute-of-limitation on the truth, or on righting a wrong.
As a lawyer recently said to me, “Unfortunately, the only justice that our civil judicial system provides for is a check. You can’t make people feel bad for what they’ve done or stop them from doing it again. The only other form of justice available to us is karma.” But as I told him, I believe that in the absence of a western-style private-party remunerated settlement with non-disclosure agreement, telling the truth is the other way to right a wrong, no matter how long ago the wrong was committed, or by whom against whom. And I don’t believe in karma.
Although you and your legal representative(s) will of course depict my action here as an attempt at extortion (as you did my offer of sale of the copyright of “DFE in the Information Age” [a copy of which you and/or she probably still hold and which I must remind you is, indeed, copyrighted material which you cannot publish, copy or share in any manner without my express permission]), neither action in fact rises to the level of extortion, and my action here is to provide you with a final opportunity to right the wrongs committed against me as outlined below before I simply tell the truth of the story to whomever wishes to know it on the website www.TellingTalesTold.com.
I offer us all this opportunity because, quite honestly, after spending days coordinating, developing, writing and editing the information below, as presented, I honestly just don’t feel like spending any more time on this matter (launching the website, putting the information into biographical form [you know how anal-retentively obsessive-compulsive I am about even making silly property management forms and manuals read as perfectly as possible) -- and even though I honestly feel that such a website would provide for a long-needed opportunity for others like me to share their stories in order to achieve that sense of closure we desire and, frankly, need -- dealing with any legal issues you might raise [although I do remind you and your legal representative(s) that, regardless of how embarrassing or even humiliating it might seem to feel to have the truth openly revealed, the truth and opinion regarding it as presented is not defamatory, as my cousin recently learned when he threatened to sue me and other family members for defamation for statements of opinion and truth shared via social media]) and since I honestly believe that (while of course I may be wrong) with the exception of Jim, the rest of you, while personally culpable, did not pre-plan what was done to me with an actual malicious intent to harm me, even at this late date, and in the absence of any admission of corporate or personal wrongdoing, a settlement of issues at hand with that all-important non-disclosure agreement between all parties involved would enable us all to finally put the matter to rest forever so that none of us will speak again of the wrong that was done to me by you, after my exemplary and diligent job performance for OPM beginning May, 2003, when actions were pursued against me which resulted in the loss of my livelihood and housing as well as my suffering mental, emotional and physical pain continuing to the present in the absence of resolution, through the following deliberate actions, in both bulleted and timeline format (to further clarify the situation as it unfolded) as described below:
StrongTO BE CONTINUED… (‘cause it ain’t my full-time yob) with a taste of a tease of the story to come...unwarranted dismissal from my position... within the Business Office through fraudulent “lay off” on Thursday... with loss of salary of $27,040... Monday replacement within the office by Minnie... already Purdy’s extramarital lover... or... to make her available to Purdy for seduction... began between the two... at the same time as or in the immediate aftermath of... extramarital affair with OPM Receptionist... pregnant with her husband’s child in the midst of divorce proceedings... sued OPM and Purdy for Sexual Harassment... settlement [after she and her son were evicted by OPM in the midst of her Sexual Harassment Claim against OPM and Purdy])... whom many felt then and still feel to have been... a known sexual predator... of young, vulnerable female OPM staff... via letter dated May 2... unwarranted dismissal from my position as Resident Manager after superior performance at 4128 Wabash Avenue... required CCF to vacate the premises on or before May 20... Unemployed and with only two weeks to find housing... a tiny “moldy oldy” at $500/month... from imminent homelessness 5 days before OPM/Purdy’s May 20th deadline... to San Diego County Psychiatric Emergency Room at 3853 Rosecrans three times for suicidal ideation and panic attacks... OPM’s demonstrably false and defamatory statements to DFEH... “pornographic materials"... wrongdoing... sustained at the hands of those referenced above who injured me.
StrongAND COMING UP: Why is the San Diego Police Department questioning Olympic Property Management and Prime Asset Management staff about suspected involvement in a North Park hate crime at a former employee’s home? www.TellingTalesTold.com -- Because the truth, no matter how embarrassing (for some) is not defamatory.
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A friend (and sometime fan, maybe) suggested I start this morning’s post with pics of the two ‘hate crime’ incidents (San Diego Police Department verdicts, not mine) to which I referred in yesterday’s COMING UP finale rather than the TO BE CONTINUED continuation of my recent letter to the Grecos and Purdys with which I started out, and then continue with the TO BE CONTINUED continuation after beginning this morning’s post with these pics. (I don’t mean to, it just sometimes comes out of my head and through my fingers to the keyboard onto the screen this way…)
Picture it (as Sophia so often told Dorothy, Rose and Blanche): May, 2012, a sleepy (but not unattractive [okay, ‘for his age’]) 51 year-old man opens the front door to retrieve his newspaper from half-way down the outside concrete stairway and on his way back into his 2nd floor apt, he sees this:
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Bear in mind that this was the morning after I was confronted by 3 angry Olympic Prop Mgmt and Prime Asset Mgmt staff women who loudly pronounced me both "sick" and "mental" while I was posting information about the website at a Pacific Beach parking lot.
So I put on the coffee (yes, I do know that I switched from third- to first-person narrative, thanks [I don’t mean to, it just sometimes comes out of my head and through my fingers to the keyboard onto the screen this way…]) snapped a couple of photos and called information for the number of the San Diego Police Department (non-emergency number, thank you – I do know the difference between an emergency, and urgency, and something they can reply to as soon as they can without giving fleeing robbers, rapists and murderers a head start) and I called and reported the incident and the SDPD takes hate crimes (their verdict, not mine) so seriously that two cruisers with four cops responded within minutes (just like the time frame within which Miss Jane Hathaway cautioned Ellie Mae Clampett that Jethro would be arrested for boycotting the bank with a big sign for some Jethro-related reason or other) and they took photos, took my statement, told me how seriously the City of San Diego and its fine police force take such criminal activity, and they made a report they have entitled “Case # 12-018896.” (18,896 police reports as of mid-May? That would be about 40,000 projected for the year? I can’t decide whether I think that’s a lot or not for a city of 1,301,617 [give or take 17]).
Meanwhile, I went about my business, and the following week, same scenario (see Paragraph 2, above) and, on the Sunday morning after I'd put post cards in several coffee houses around town the previous evening, I was greeted with this:
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So the Good Old SDPD responded again and took photos and notes and they didn't seem to think it was coincidental, either. I am, of course, ABSOLUTELY NOT accusing ANYONE of committing these crimes, but time will tell what happens, and then, you betcha, I'll tell you.
BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE! Just the other day I opened my home address mail box at the building I now live in (an address I never use because I’ve moved so often as a Res Apt & Prop Mgr that I got myself a POB years ago, so the only mail I ever get at the home address box is ‘occupant’ crap etc) and lo (or I should say “low”) and behold, an envelope addressed to Telling Tales with no return address listed, and inside, a small article torn from a newspaper headlined, “Man dropped off at hospital after apparently being shot in the leg.” NORTH PARK, it says, “San Diego police are investigating after a man who said he was shot in North Park showed up at a hospital Wednesday night with a gunshot wound to the leg. The 21 year-old said he was walking on University Avenue near 30th Street about 7:50 p.m. when he heard a shot from behind him, police said. He realized he had been hit and fell to the ground.”
Now… how far away from my building do you suppose that incident took place? Three blocks, that’s how far away. Now… who do you suppose might be connected with somebody who’d send somebody something like that under the circumstances in which several of us find ourselves this season?... Yeah, well, me, too. However: (Ahem) “I am, of course, ABSOLUTELY NOT accusing ANYONE of committing these crimes, but time will tell what happens, and then, you betcha, I'll tell you.”
So of course I called Detective J.J., who is in charge of the case and whose silent side-kick wears dark sunglasses he doesn’t take off even inside of the homes of those whose calls they investigate with regard to such matters, and he’s got the envelope and the clipping and since this is in fact considered a threat that was sent through the United States Postal Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will most likely become involved.
Whell!... I done said it afore and I say it agin: Time will tell what happens, and then, you betcha, I'll tell you!
Now I think I’ve written about all I can this morning, and copying and pasting from my letter to the Grecos and Purdys and then reviewing the post before posting will take a little longer than i've got right now, so can I call it a day and leave y’all with this guarantee?...
StrongCOMING UP... “unwarranted dismissal from my position... within the Business Office through fraudulent “lay off” on Thursday... with loss of salary of $27,040... Monday replacement within the office by Minnie... already Purdy’s extramarital lover... or... to make her available to Purdy for seduction... began between the two... at the same time as or in the immediate aftermath of... extramarital affair with OPM Receptionist... pregnant with her husband’s child in the midst of divorce proceedings... sued OPM and Purdy for Sexual Harassment... settlement [after she and her son were evicted by OPM in the midst of her Sexual Harassment Claim against OPM and Purdy])... whom many felt then and still feel to have been... a known sexual predator... of young, vulnerable female OPM staff... via letter dated May 2... unwarranted dismissal from my position as Resident Manager after superior performance at 4128 Wabash Avenue... required CCF to vacate the premises on or before May 20... Unemployed and with only two weeks to find housing... a tiny “moldy oldy” at $500/month... from imminent homelessness 5 days before OPM/Purdy’s May 20th deadline... to San Diego County Psychiatric Emergency Room at 3853 Rosecrans three times for suicidal ideation and panic attacks... OPM’s demonstrably false and defamatory statements to DFEH... “pornographic materials"... wrongdoing... sustained at the hands of those referenced above who injured me."
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I decided to just go ahead and print the entire letter outlining the bare facts even though this template won't accept my MS Word bullets and numbering, so it all comes out in a strict block paragraph format. No biggie. The information is still the same, and has always been the truth.
Coming Soon: The Story Itself as it unfolded and as I lived it along with coworkers and family(ies) and friends who lived it right along with me, for anybody who cares to know it.
Happy Sunday, everybody!
– Chris.
TO: Olympic Property Management: Viva Greco, President; Don Greco*, Vice President; James Purdy; Minnie (Farr) Purdy
FROM: Christopher Corbett-Fiacco
DATE: March 13, 2012
In answer to the question, “Can’t he just get over it?” -- in the absence of a genuine resolution to the situation at hand: “No.”
If a company called Corbett-Fiacco Property Management and I had done to you what was done to me seven years ago by Olympic Property Manager [sic] (OPM)* and by each one of you as associated with the situation as it unfolded (even if, unlike Jim, your actions were unplanned and without outright malice), you would have sued me in an instant, and rightly so. And even if, for a variety of reasons, you had let seven years pass without consulting legal advisors, the answer would be the same for you, as it is for me, as iterated above.
Because, quite honestly and simply, regardless of the time frame in the history of our lives during which it took place, a wrong was done to me by OPM, and by you, which cost me my livelihood and my housing at the time, as well as a great deal of mental, emotional and physical pain and suffering, and although statutes-of-limitation have expired insofar as civil litigation is concerned, there is no statute-of-limitations on the truth, or on righting a wrong.
As a lawyer recently said to me, “Unfortunately, the only justice that our civil judicial system provides for is a check. You can’t make people feel bad for what they’ve done or stop them from doing it again. The only other form of justice available to us is karma.” But as I told him, I believe that in the absence of a western-style private-party remunerated settlement with non-disclosure agreement, telling the truth is the other way to right a wrong, no matter how long ago the wrong was committed, or by whom against whom. And I don’t believe in karma.
Although you and your legal representative(s) [time having passed so that I no longer know whether Alison Borkenheim still represents you or not, I send this to you personally at the only addresses to which I feel secure that your own copies of the memo will reach each one of you] will of course depict my action here as an attempt at extortion (as you did my offer of sale of the copyright of “DFE in the Information Age” [a copy of which you and/or she probably still hold and which I must remind you is, indeed, copyrighted material which you cannot publish, copy or share in any manner without my express permission]), neither action in fact rises to the level of extortion, and my action here is to provide you with a final opportunity to right the wrongs committed against me as outlined below before I simply telling [sic] the truth of the story to whomever wishes to know it on the website www.TellingTalesTold.com.
I offer us all this opportunity because, quite honestly, after spending days coordinating, developing, writing and editing the information below, as presented, I honestly just don’t feel like spending any more time on this matter (launching the website, putting the information into biographical form [you know how anal-retentively obsessive-compulsive I am about even making silly property management forms and manuals read as perfectly as possible) -- and even though I honestly feel that such a website would provide for a long-needed opportunity for others like me to share their stories in order to achieve that sense of closure we desire and, frankly, need -- dealing with any legal issues you might raise [although I do remind you and your legal representative(s) that, regardless of how embarrassing or even humiliating it might seem to feel to have the truth openly revealed, the truth and opinion regarding it as presented is not defamatory, as my cousin recently learned when he threatened to sue me and other family members for defamation for statements of opinion and truth shared via social media]) and since I honestly believe that (while of course I may be wrong) with the exception of Jim, the rest of you, while personally culpable, did not pre-plan what was done to me with an actual malicious intent to harm me, even at this late date, and in the absence of any admission of corporate or personal wrongdoing, a settlement of issues at hand with that all-important non-disclosure agreement between all parties involved would enable us all to finally put the matter to rest forever so that none of us will speak again of the wrong that was done to me by you, after my exemplary and diligent job performance for OPM beginning May, 2003, when actions were pursued against me which resulted in the loss of my livelihood and housing as well as my suffering mental, emotional and physical pain continuing to the present in the absence of resolution, through the following deliberate actions, in both bulleted and timeline format (to further clarify the situation as it unfolded):
Strong1. OPM’s unwarranted dismissal of me from my position as Executive Assistant within the Business Office through fictitious “lay off” on Thursday, February 17, 2005 with loss of salary of $13/hour ($27,040 annual) in order to place Minnie Farr in that position on the following Monday morning for nefarious reasons.
Strong2. My Monday, February 21, 2005 replacement within the office by Minnie in order that:
( A ) Farr, already Purdy’s extramarital lover (Purdy then still married to his first wife, B*; Farr not yet Mrs. Purdy) was provided gainful employment at my expense;
or,
( B ) Farr was employed at the OPM Business Office in order to make her available to Purdy for seduction in extramarital affair which began between the two either at the same time as or in the immediate aftermath of Purdy’s extramarital affair with OPM Receptionist Mattie A* (an emotionally and financially vulnerable mid-twenty year-old woman trying to support herself and her 10 or 11 year-old son on $10-$11/hour who found herself pregnant with her husband’s child in the midst of divorce proceedings [and openly weeping in the office at the prospect of abortion as the only means of keeping herself and her son from poverty] and for whom Jim Purdy coordinated an OPM-managed apartment unit, providing her with furniture and other gifts, money, etc., whom he thereafter seduced and with whom he had an extramarital affair which lasted up to and possibly beyond his seduction of and extramarital affair with Farr, but who eventually sued OPM and Purdy for Sexual Harassment and probably elicited a mid-to-high five figure or higher settlement [after she and her son were evicted by OPM in the midst of her Sexual Harassment Claim against Purdy]) -- this after a history of such seductions and extramarital affairs by Purdy with other young female OPM staff including at least one known by the first name of Yvette, a history known to the Grecos, and therefore facilitated by OPM as employer of an individual (Purdy) whom many felt then and still feel to have been (at least at that time if not even today) a known sexual predator of young, vulnerable female OPM staff.
OPM’s unwarranted dismissal of me from me [sic] position as Resident Manager after superior performance at 4128 Wabash Avenue preceded by approximately one year of same at 4940 Comanche Drive, La Mesa, CA, resultant in loss of housing as well as salary of $792/month ($9,504 annual) plus $10/hour labor rate (estimated annual earnings: $5,000) probably in a bid to ensure my continued ignorance of the situation described above.
OPM’s demonstrably false and defamatory statements to DFEH regarding my claims of discrimination (as I was then unaware of Jim’s sexual history at OPM and extramarital affair with Minnie, believed myself to have been discriminated against on account of disability, being known by OPM staff to suffer from depression, anxiety disorder, migraine headache, and in recovery with alcoholism/addiction).
StrongTimeline / History of Events:
May, 2003: OPM hired CCF as Resident Manager at 18-unit apartment building located at 4940 Comanche Drive, La Mesa, CA.
Sept, 2003: OPM hired CCF as part-time Admin Assistant to Jim Purdy and Viva Greco in OPM Business Office @ approximately $11/hour.
Dec, 2003: ( A ) CCF to full-time employment as Executive Assistant to J. Purdy and V. Greco with increase to $13/hour. ( B ) CCF given $1,000+ year-end bonus by Greco Investments / OPM.
May, 2004: After sale of 4940 Comanche Drive property (at which time, CCF was offered the opportunity to continue as Resident Manager by new owners [employment which doubtless would not have ended in dismissal one year later (and certainly not in the manner of OPM/Purdy)] but declined upon Purdy appointing CCF as Resident Manager at 4128 Wabash Avenue, San Diego (under direct supervision of Don Greco) in order to remove then-Resident Manager Jorge Q because Jorge was not performing well. Jorge was then appointed Res Mgr at 3815(?) 5th Avenue (employment held until long after CCF was fired from 4128 Wabash Ave in May, 2005).
Dec, 2004: CCF given $1,000+ year-end bonus by Greco Investments / OPM.
Feb, 2005: CCF “laid off” by OPM (with Jim Purdy, Viva Greco and Don Greco in attendance in Jim Purdy’s office) purportedly as a job cut (position no longer necessary, duties to be spread among others throughout the office, etc.) and assured by all three parties (as well as by Jack Greco on CCF’s way out of the office) that it was not due to performance, personality or any other issues but strictly lay-off as a position cut.
On the Monday morning immediately following the Thursday afternoon “lay off” of CCF, Minnie Farr began working in the OPM business office performing tasks previously performed by CCF (as verified by a January 24, 2006 letter from an OPM office staff member to DFEH Investigator) which CCF discovered only upon calling the office in order to speak with Don and to hear Minnie answer the phone and tell him that she’d just started working in the office doing administrative work that very morning!
OPM falsely “verified” “layoff” to EDD re CCF application for unemployment benefits made online the Friday morning after Thursday job loss (before Farr’s replacement of CCF was even known to CCF).
Mar, 2005: Jim Purdy, Viva Greco and Don Greco provided CCF with Letters of Recommendation for employment.
May, 2005: Via letter dated May 2, Jim Purdy severed employment between OPM and CCF as Resident Manager at 4128 Wabash Ave and required CCF to vacate the premises on or before May 20. CCF worked with Don Greco to close out CCF’s employment such as by providing keys, files and forms in CCF’s possession, etc. which took place without incident.
Unemployed and with only two weeks to find housing while suffering from depression, anxiety with panic attacks, and migraine headaches, CCF was rejected by several landlords/agencies before seeing a tiny “moldy oldy” at $500/month whose 85 year-old owner rented to him upon finding out that CCF’s father was from the same NYS hometown and that CCF had grown up only 20 miles away and still had family in that town, thus saving CCF from imminent homelessness 5 days before OPM/Purdy’s May 20th deadline.
May-Jun ’05: CCF drove to San Diego County Psychiatric Emergency Room at 3853 Rosecrans Street three times for suicidal ideation and panic attacks directly resultant from above and entered ongoing-to-date psychiatric treatment at a San Diego County facility.
July, 2005: Angry and desperate, CCF (admittedly stupidly) attempted sale of copyright to manuscript entitled “DFE in the Information Age”** to OPM via Don Greco. All statements within the body of the manuscript were truthful and the sale of the copyright to a manuscript is not illegal. If it were and the offer rose to the level of extortion (as later claimed by OPM/Borkenheim to DFEH in an attempt to derail CCF’s Claim of Discrimination) CCF would have been investigated and possibly prosecuted for extortion, which never happened.
Nov, 2005: CCF filed two Complaints of Discrimination against OPM via DFEH (then believing himself to have been discriminated against on the basis of known mental health disability as well as gender [Purdy preferring to hire females]).
Dec, 2005: Attorney Borkenheim provided DFEH with reply to Complaints on behalf of OPM/etc in which demonstrably false and defamatory statements were made regarding CCF’s job performance and character.
2006:
(A) CCF provided material demonstrating falsity of OPM reply to DFEH.
( B ) OPM offered CCF $5,000 settlement of DFEH Complaints. CCF countered with $40K or $50K offer. (lol.) OPM withdrew offer of settlement.
(C) CCF learned from Amy M* details of Purdy’s activities while at OPM and of the three Grecos’ knowledge of (and thereby OPM’s complicity with regard (to such activities).
(D) Amy M* filed Sexual Harassment Complaint against OPM/Purdy.
(E) OPM offered CCF $7,500 settlement of DFEH Complaints. CCF countered with $10,000 offer. OPM withdrew offer of settlement.
(F) Borkenheim told DFEH that CCF had sent “pornographic materials” to OPM, a blatantly false, shocking, hurtful, harmful and defamatory statement.
(G) CCF closed DFEH Claim and received Right-to-Sue Letter with intent to sue OPM in civil court but depression and embarrassment over July 2005 attempted sale of manuscript derailed the effort.
June, 2008: CCF sent Borkenheim offer of CCF/OPM settlement with regard to the issues at hand. Borkenheim replied that the statute of limitations for DFEH Complaints had expired and that there were no issues to be settled.
To Present: The situation remains unresolved in my life and while I do not anticipate or require an insincere apology or even acknowledgement of wrongdoing, the fact that undeserved wrongs were clearly done to me which ended my employment, denied me housing, and greatly and negatively impacted my health and professional life (harm brought as well by Farr’s involvement [an OPM fellow-Resident Manager I’d considered a work friend and whom I trusted and had liked a great deal (I still remember Minnie asking me at the OPM Xmas party just months before the situation exploded if she could sit with me because she apparently felt a little out-of-place and lonely and we shared dinner, conversation and laughs together]) and in an attempt to put ‘old business’ to rest and to move on to new projects in my life, including perhaps a move to L.A., I seek recompense for injuries sustained at the hands of those referenced above who injured me.
As I lost two jobs (plus ad hoc hourly labor wages) and my housing through no fault of my own as a result of the actions taken against me as described above, and seeking no form of “pain and suffering award,” I seek a settlement from you which merely reimburses me for one year’s lost wages, which I believe to be both fair and justifiable in light of the situation as it unfolded, as follows:
( A ) As Executive Assistant: $27,040 + $1,000 year-end bonus: $28,040. ( B ) As Resident Manager and $10/Hour Laborer @ 4128 Wabash Ave: $9,528 + $5,000: $14,728.
Total Settlement Requested: $42,768.
Please have your legal representative(s) reply by letter via email or hard copy on or before my birthday, April 2nd.
Thank you all for your time and consideration with regard to the matter at hand.
** Publication of "DFE in the Information Age" to follow.
FINAL NOTE: I have to date received no reply to this letter. Let the chips fall where and on whom they may.
[Originally posted @ www.TellingTalesTold.com 06/02/12]
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Coming Soon to a Kindle near You? Soon to be a Minor Motion Picture? A Dark Comedy of Errors and Terrors at the Hands of the Heinous Anuses Who Too Often End Up (our asses) as our Employment Frenemies?
Here it is, folks, the story that started it all:
Pardon my riff, but to paraphrase Carl Sigman, “Where do I begin to tell the story of how great a shove (out the door and a kick to the curb) can be?” Or Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Why do I loathe thee? Let me recount the ways” in which I have unwillingly found myself sitting at the ‘ol pc, beginning a blog, having never blogged before and wondering exactly how and where to start, wondering if it’s best to begin with the opening paragraphs of a letter I recently sent to Viva, Don, Jim and Minnie concerning the matter at hand, and thinking it best -- if only to give myself a little more time to get my thoughts in order in order to share them, and the whole god damned story (and to let others share their god damned stories too) with you in order to provide an opportunity at a safe cyber place to get ourselves a little bit of what everybody seems to want these days – THE BIG C – CLOSURE – and to give others a chance to read all about it because, as our extended motto says:
“The truth, no matter how embarrassing (for some) is not defamatory.”
TO: Olympic Property Management: Viva Greco, President; Don Greco, Vice President; Jim Purdy; Minnie (Farr) Purdy
FROM: Christopher Corbett-Fiacco
DATE: March 14, 2012
In answer to the question, “Can’t he just get over it?” -- in the absence of a genuine resolution to the situation at hand: “No.”
If a company called Corbett-Fiacco Property Management and I had done to you what was done to me seven years ago by Olympic Property Management (OPM) and by each one of you as associated with the situation as it unfolded (even if, unlike Jim, your actions were unplanned and without outright malice), you would have sued me in an instant, and rightly so. And even if, for a variety of reasons, you had let seven years pass without consulting legal advisors, the answer would be the same for you, as it is for me, as iterated above.
Because, quite honestly and simply, regardless of the time frame in the history of our lives during which it took place, a wrong was done to me by OPM, and by you, which cost me my livelihood and my housing at the time, as well as a great deal of mental, emotional and physical pain and suffering, and although statutes-of-limitation have expired insofar as civil litigation is concerned, there is no statute-of-limitation on the truth, or on righting a wrong.
As a lawyer recently said to me, “Unfortunately, the only justice that our civil judicial system provides for is a check. You can’t make people feel bad for what they’ve done or stop them from doing it again. The only other form of justice available to us is karma.” But as I told him, I believe that in the absence of a western-style private-party remunerated settlement with non-disclosure agreement, telling the truth is the other way to right a wrong, no matter how long ago the wrong was committed, or by whom against whom. And I don’t believe in karma.
Although you and your legal representative(s) will of course depict my action here as an attempt at extortion (as you did my offer of sale of the copyright of “DFE in the Information Age” [a copy of which you and/or she probably still hold and which I must remind you is, indeed, copyrighted material which you cannot publish, copy or share in any manner without my express permission]), neither action in fact rises to the level of extortion, and my action here is to provide you with a final opportunity to right the wrongs committed against me as outlined below before I simply tell the truth of the story to whomever wishes to know it on the website www.TellingTalesTold.com.
I offer us all this opportunity because, quite honestly, after spending days coordinating, developing, writing and editing the information below, as presented, I honestly just don’t feel like spending any more time on this matter (launching the website, putting the information into biographical form [you know how anal-retentively obsessive-compulsive I am about even making silly property management forms and manuals read as perfectly as possible) -- and even though I honestly feel that such a website would provide for a long-needed opportunity for others like me to share their stories in order to achieve that sense of closure we desire and, frankly, need -- dealing with any legal issues you might raise [although I do remind you and your legal representative(s) that, regardless of how embarrassing or even humiliating it might seem to feel to have the truth openly revealed, the truth and opinion regarding it as presented is not defamatory, as my cousin recently learned when he threatened to sue me and other family members for defamation for statements of opinion and truth shared via social media]) and since I honestly believe that (while of course I may be wrong) with the exception of Jim, the rest of you, while personally culpable, did not pre-plan what was done to me with an actual malicious intent to harm me, even at this late date, and in the absence of any admission of corporate or personal wrongdoing, a settlement of issues at hand with that all-important non-disclosure agreement between all parties involved would enable us all to finally put the matter to rest forever so that none of us will speak again of the wrong that was done to me by you, after my exemplary and diligent job performance for OPM beginning May, 2003, when actions were pursued against me which resulted in the loss of my livelihood and housing as well as my suffering mental, emotional and physical pain continuing to the present in the absence of resolution, through the following deliberate actions, in both bulleted and timeline format (to further clarify the situation as it unfolded) as described below:
StrongTO BE CONTINUED… (‘cause it ain’t my full-time yob) with a taste of a tease of the story to come...unwarranted dismissal from my position... within the Business Office through fraudulent “lay off” on Thursday... with loss of salary of $27,040... Monday replacement within the office by Minnie... already Purdy’s extramarital lover... or... to make her available to Purdy for seduction... began between the two... at the same time as or in the immediate aftermath of... extramarital affair with OPM Receptionist... pregnant with her husband’s child in the midst of divorce proceedings... sued OPM and Purdy for Sexual Harassment... settlement [after she and her son were evicted by OPM in the midst of her Sexual Harassment Claim against OPM and Purdy])... whom many felt then and still feel to have been... a known sexual predator... of young, vulnerable female OPM staff... via letter dated May 2... unwarranted dismissal from my position as Resident Manager after superior performance at 4128 Wabash Avenue... required CCF to vacate the premises on or before May 20... Unemployed and with only two weeks to find housing... a tiny “moldy oldy” at $500/month... from imminent homelessness 5 days before OPM/Purdy’s May 20th deadline... to San Diego County Psychiatric Emergency Room at 3853 Rosecrans three times for suicidal ideation and panic attacks... OPM’s demonstrably false and defamatory statements to DFEH... “pornographic materials"... wrongdoing... sustained at the hands of those referenced above who injured me.
StrongAND COMING UP: Why is the San Diego Police Department questioning Olympic Property Management and Prime Asset Management staff about suspected involvement in a North Park hate crime at a former employee’s home? www.TellingTalesTold.com -- Because the truth, no matter how embarrassing (for some) is not defamatory.
StrongThe Story That Started It All: Just the Facts (Page 2):
A friend (and sometime fan, maybe) suggested I start this morning’s post with pics of the two ‘hate crime’ incidents (San Diego Police Department verdicts, not mine) to which I referred in yesterday’s COMING UP finale rather than the TO BE CONTINUED continuation of my recent letter to the Grecos and Purdys with which I started out, and then continue with the TO BE CONTINUED continuation after beginning this morning’s post with these pics. (I don’t mean to, it just sometimes comes out of my head and through my fingers to the keyboard onto the screen this way…)
Picture it (as Sophia so often told Dorothy, Rose and Blanche): May, 2012, a sleepy (but not unattractive [okay, ‘for his age’]) 51 year-old man opens the front door to retrieve his newspaper from half-way down the outside concrete stairway and on his way back into his 2nd floor apt, he sees this:
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Bear in mind that this was the morning after I was confronted by 3 angry Olympic Prop Mgmt and Prime Asset Mgmt staff women who loudly pronounced me both "sick" and "mental" while I was posting information about the website at a Pacific Beach parking lot.
So I put on the coffee (yes, I do know that I switched from third- to first-person narrative, thanks [I don’t mean to, it just sometimes comes out of my head and through my fingers to the keyboard onto the screen this way…]) snapped a couple of photos and called information for the number of the San Diego Police Department (non-emergency number, thank you – I do know the difference between an emergency, and urgency, and something they can reply to as soon as they can without giving fleeing robbers, rapists and murderers a head start) and I called and reported the incident and the SDPD takes hate crimes (their verdict, not mine) so seriously that two cruisers with four cops responded within minutes (just like the time frame within which Miss Jane Hathaway cautioned Ellie Mae Clampett that Jethro would be arrested for boycotting the bank with a big sign for some Jethro-related reason or other) and they took photos, took my statement, told me how seriously the City of San Diego and its fine police force take such criminal activity, and they made a report they have entitled “Case # 12-018896.” (18,896 police reports as of mid-May? That would be about 40,000 projected for the year? I can’t decide whether I think that’s a lot or not for a city of 1,301,617 [give or take 17]).
Meanwhile, I went about my business, and the following week, same scenario (see Paragraph 2, above) and, on the Sunday morning after I'd put post cards in several coffee houses around town the previous evening, I was greeted with this:
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So the Good Old SDPD responded again and took photos and notes and they didn't seem to think it was coincidental, either. I am, of course, ABSOLUTELY NOT accusing ANYONE of committing these crimes, but time will tell what happens, and then, you betcha, I'll tell you.
BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE! Just the other day I opened my home address mail box at the building I now live in (an address I never use because I’ve moved so often as a Res Apt & Prop Mgr that I got myself a POB years ago, so the only mail I ever get at the home address box is ‘occupant’ crap etc) and lo (or I should say “low”) and behold, an envelope addressed to Telling Tales with no return address listed, and inside, a small article torn from a newspaper headlined, “Man dropped off at hospital after apparently being shot in the leg.” NORTH PARK, it says, “San Diego police are investigating after a man who said he was shot in North Park showed up at a hospital Wednesday night with a gunshot wound to the leg. The 21 year-old said he was walking on University Avenue near 30th Street about 7:50 p.m. when he heard a shot from behind him, police said. He realized he had been hit and fell to the ground.”
Now… how far away from my building do you suppose that incident took place? Three blocks, that’s how far away. Now… who do you suppose might be connected with somebody who’d send somebody something like that under the circumstances in which several of us find ourselves this season?... Yeah, well, me, too. However: (Ahem) “I am, of course, ABSOLUTELY NOT accusing ANYONE of committing these crimes, but time will tell what happens, and then, you betcha, I'll tell you.”
So of course I called Detective J.J., who is in charge of the case and whose silent side-kick wears dark sunglasses he doesn’t take off even inside of the homes of those whose calls they investigate with regard to such matters, and he’s got the envelope and the clipping and since this is in fact considered a threat that was sent through the United States Postal Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will most likely become involved.
Whell!... I done said it afore and I say it agin: Time will tell what happens, and then, you betcha, I'll tell you!
Now I think I’ve written about all I can this morning, and copying and pasting from my letter to the Grecos and Purdys and then reviewing the post before posting will take a little longer than i've got right now, so can I call it a day and leave y’all with this guarantee?...
StrongCOMING UP... “unwarranted dismissal from my position... within the Business Office through fraudulent “lay off” on Thursday... with loss of salary of $27,040... Monday replacement within the office by Minnie... already Purdy’s extramarital lover... or... to make her available to Purdy for seduction... began between the two... at the same time as or in the immediate aftermath of... extramarital affair with OPM Receptionist... pregnant with her husband’s child in the midst of divorce proceedings... sued OPM and Purdy for Sexual Harassment... settlement [after she and her son were evicted by OPM in the midst of her Sexual Harassment Claim against OPM and Purdy])... whom many felt then and still feel to have been... a known sexual predator... of young, vulnerable female OPM staff... via letter dated May 2... unwarranted dismissal from my position as Resident Manager after superior performance at 4128 Wabash Avenue... required CCF to vacate the premises on or before May 20... Unemployed and with only two weeks to find housing... a tiny “moldy oldy” at $500/month... from imminent homelessness 5 days before OPM/Purdy’s May 20th deadline... to San Diego County Psychiatric Emergency Room at 3853 Rosecrans three times for suicidal ideation and panic attacks... OPM’s demonstrably false and defamatory statements to DFEH... “pornographic materials"... wrongdoing... sustained at the hands of those referenced above who injured me."
StrongThe Story That Started It All: Just the Facts (Page 3):
I decided to just go ahead and print the entire letter outlining the bare facts even though this template won't accept my MS Word bullets and numbering, so it all comes out in a strict block paragraph format. No biggie. The information is still the same, and has always been the truth.
Coming Soon: The Story Itself as it unfolded and as I lived it along with coworkers and family(ies) and friends who lived it right along with me, for anybody who cares to know it.
Happy Sunday, everybody!
– Chris.
TO: Olympic Property Management: Viva Greco, President; Don Greco*, Vice President; James Purdy; Minnie (Farr) Purdy
FROM: Christopher Corbett-Fiacco
DATE: March 13, 2012
In answer to the question, “Can’t he just get over it?” -- in the absence of a genuine resolution to the situation at hand: “No.”
If a company called Corbett-Fiacco Property Management and I had done to you what was done to me seven years ago by Olympic Property Manager [sic] (OPM)* and by each one of you as associated with the situation as it unfolded (even if, unlike Jim, your actions were unplanned and without outright malice), you would have sued me in an instant, and rightly so. And even if, for a variety of reasons, you had let seven years pass without consulting legal advisors, the answer would be the same for you, as it is for me, as iterated above.
Because, quite honestly and simply, regardless of the time frame in the history of our lives during which it took place, a wrong was done to me by OPM, and by you, which cost me my livelihood and my housing at the time, as well as a great deal of mental, emotional and physical pain and suffering, and although statutes-of-limitation have expired insofar as civil litigation is concerned, there is no statute-of-limitations on the truth, or on righting a wrong.
As a lawyer recently said to me, “Unfortunately, the only justice that our civil judicial system provides for is a check. You can’t make people feel bad for what they’ve done or stop them from doing it again. The only other form of justice available to us is karma.” But as I told him, I believe that in the absence of a western-style private-party remunerated settlement with non-disclosure agreement, telling the truth is the other way to right a wrong, no matter how long ago the wrong was committed, or by whom against whom. And I don’t believe in karma.
Although you and your legal representative(s) [time having passed so that I no longer know whether Alison Borkenheim still represents you or not, I send this to you personally at the only addresses to which I feel secure that your own copies of the memo will reach each one of you] will of course depict my action here as an attempt at extortion (as you did my offer of sale of the copyright of “DFE in the Information Age” [a copy of which you and/or she probably still hold and which I must remind you is, indeed, copyrighted material which you cannot publish, copy or share in any manner without my express permission]), neither action in fact rises to the level of extortion, and my action here is to provide you with a final opportunity to right the wrongs committed against me as outlined below before I simply telling [sic] the truth of the story to whomever wishes to know it on the website www.TellingTalesTold.com.
I offer us all this opportunity because, quite honestly, after spending days coordinating, developing, writing and editing the information below, as presented, I honestly just don’t feel like spending any more time on this matter (launching the website, putting the information into biographical form [you know how anal-retentively obsessive-compulsive I am about even making silly property management forms and manuals read as perfectly as possible) -- and even though I honestly feel that such a website would provide for a long-needed opportunity for others like me to share their stories in order to achieve that sense of closure we desire and, frankly, need -- dealing with any legal issues you might raise [although I do remind you and your legal representative(s) that, regardless of how embarrassing or even humiliating it might seem to feel to have the truth openly revealed, the truth and opinion regarding it as presented is not defamatory, as my cousin recently learned when he threatened to sue me and other family members for defamation for statements of opinion and truth shared via social media]) and since I honestly believe that (while of course I may be wrong) with the exception of Jim, the rest of you, while personally culpable, did not pre-plan what was done to me with an actual malicious intent to harm me, even at this late date, and in the absence of any admission of corporate or personal wrongdoing, a settlement of issues at hand with that all-important non-disclosure agreement between all parties involved would enable us all to finally put the matter to rest forever so that none of us will speak again of the wrong that was done to me by you, after my exemplary and diligent job performance for OPM beginning May, 2003, when actions were pursued against me which resulted in the loss of my livelihood and housing as well as my suffering mental, emotional and physical pain continuing to the present in the absence of resolution, through the following deliberate actions, in both bulleted and timeline format (to further clarify the situation as it unfolded):
Strong1. OPM’s unwarranted dismissal of me from my position as Executive Assistant within the Business Office through fictitious “lay off” on Thursday, February 17, 2005 with loss of salary of $13/hour ($27,040 annual) in order to place Minnie Farr in that position on the following Monday morning for nefarious reasons.
Strong2. My Monday, February 21, 2005 replacement within the office by Minnie in order that:
( A ) Farr, already Purdy’s extramarital lover (Purdy then still married to his first wife, B*; Farr not yet Mrs. Purdy) was provided gainful employment at my expense;
or,
( B ) Farr was employed at the OPM Business Office in order to make her available to Purdy for seduction in extramarital affair which began between the two either at the same time as or in the immediate aftermath of Purdy’s extramarital affair with OPM Receptionist Mattie A* (an emotionally and financially vulnerable mid-twenty year-old woman trying to support herself and her 10 or 11 year-old son on $10-$11/hour who found herself pregnant with her husband’s child in the midst of divorce proceedings [and openly weeping in the office at the prospect of abortion as the only means of keeping herself and her son from poverty] and for whom Jim Purdy coordinated an OPM-managed apartment unit, providing her with furniture and other gifts, money, etc., whom he thereafter seduced and with whom he had an extramarital affair which lasted up to and possibly beyond his seduction of and extramarital affair with Farr, but who eventually sued OPM and Purdy for Sexual Harassment and probably elicited a mid-to-high five figure or higher settlement [after she and her son were evicted by OPM in the midst of her Sexual Harassment Claim against Purdy]) -- this after a history of such seductions and extramarital affairs by Purdy with other young female OPM staff including at least one known by the first name of Yvette, a history known to the Grecos, and therefore facilitated by OPM as employer of an individual (Purdy) whom many felt then and still feel to have been (at least at that time if not even today) a known sexual predator of young, vulnerable female OPM staff.
OPM’s unwarranted dismissal of me from me [sic] position as Resident Manager after superior performance at 4128 Wabash Avenue preceded by approximately one year of same at 4940 Comanche Drive, La Mesa, CA, resultant in loss of housing as well as salary of $792/month ($9,504 annual) plus $10/hour labor rate (estimated annual earnings: $5,000) probably in a bid to ensure my continued ignorance of the situation described above.
OPM’s demonstrably false and defamatory statements to DFEH regarding my claims of discrimination (as I was then unaware of Jim’s sexual history at OPM and extramarital affair with Minnie, believed myself to have been discriminated against on account of disability, being known by OPM staff to suffer from depression, anxiety disorder, migraine headache, and in recovery with alcoholism/addiction).
StrongTimeline / History of Events:
May, 2003: OPM hired CCF as Resident Manager at 18-unit apartment building located at 4940 Comanche Drive, La Mesa, CA.
Sept, 2003: OPM hired CCF as part-time Admin Assistant to Jim Purdy and Viva Greco in OPM Business Office @ approximately $11/hour.
Dec, 2003: ( A ) CCF to full-time employment as Executive Assistant to J. Purdy and V. Greco with increase to $13/hour. ( B ) CCF given $1,000+ year-end bonus by Greco Investments / OPM.
May, 2004: After sale of 4940 Comanche Drive property (at which time, CCF was offered the opportunity to continue as Resident Manager by new owners [employment which doubtless would not have ended in dismissal one year later (and certainly not in the manner of OPM/Purdy)] but declined upon Purdy appointing CCF as Resident Manager at 4128 Wabash Avenue, San Diego (under direct supervision of Don Greco) in order to remove then-Resident Manager Jorge Q because Jorge was not performing well. Jorge was then appointed Res Mgr at 3815(?) 5th Avenue (employment held until long after CCF was fired from 4128 Wabash Ave in May, 2005).
Dec, 2004: CCF given $1,000+ year-end bonus by Greco Investments / OPM.
Feb, 2005: CCF “laid off” by OPM (with Jim Purdy, Viva Greco and Don Greco in attendance in Jim Purdy’s office) purportedly as a job cut (position no longer necessary, duties to be spread among others throughout the office, etc.) and assured by all three parties (as well as by Jack Greco on CCF’s way out of the office) that it was not due to performance, personality or any other issues but strictly lay-off as a position cut.
On the Monday morning immediately following the Thursday afternoon “lay off” of CCF, Minnie Farr began working in the OPM business office performing tasks previously performed by CCF (as verified by a January 24, 2006 letter from an OPM office staff member to DFEH Investigator) which CCF discovered only upon calling the office in order to speak with Don and to hear Minnie answer the phone and tell him that she’d just started working in the office doing administrative work that very morning!
OPM falsely “verified” “layoff” to EDD re CCF application for unemployment benefits made online the Friday morning after Thursday job loss (before Farr’s replacement of CCF was even known to CCF).
Mar, 2005: Jim Purdy, Viva Greco and Don Greco provided CCF with Letters of Recommendation for employment.
May, 2005: Via letter dated May 2, Jim Purdy severed employment between OPM and CCF as Resident Manager at 4128 Wabash Ave and required CCF to vacate the premises on or before May 20. CCF worked with Don Greco to close out CCF’s employment such as by providing keys, files and forms in CCF’s possession, etc. which took place without incident.
Unemployed and with only two weeks to find housing while suffering from depression, anxiety with panic attacks, and migraine headaches, CCF was rejected by several landlords/agencies before seeing a tiny “moldy oldy” at $500/month whose 85 year-old owner rented to him upon finding out that CCF’s father was from the same NYS hometown and that CCF had grown up only 20 miles away and still had family in that town, thus saving CCF from imminent homelessness 5 days before OPM/Purdy’s May 20th deadline.
May-Jun ’05: CCF drove to San Diego County Psychiatric Emergency Room at 3853 Rosecrans Street three times for suicidal ideation and panic attacks directly resultant from above and entered ongoing-to-date psychiatric treatment at a San Diego County facility.
July, 2005: Angry and desperate, CCF (admittedly stupidly) attempted sale of copyright to manuscript entitled “DFE in the Information Age”** to OPM via Don Greco. All statements within the body of the manuscript were truthful and the sale of the copyright to a manuscript is not illegal. If it were and the offer rose to the level of extortion (as later claimed by OPM/Borkenheim to DFEH in an attempt to derail CCF’s Claim of Discrimination) CCF would have been investigated and possibly prosecuted for extortion, which never happened.
Nov, 2005: CCF filed two Complaints of Discrimination against OPM via DFEH (then believing himself to have been discriminated against on the basis of known mental health disability as well as gender [Purdy preferring to hire females]).
Dec, 2005: Attorney Borkenheim provided DFEH with reply to Complaints on behalf of OPM/etc in which demonstrably false and defamatory statements were made regarding CCF’s job performance and character.
2006:
(A) CCF provided material demonstrating falsity of OPM reply to DFEH.
( B ) OPM offered CCF $5,000 settlement of DFEH Complaints. CCF countered with $40K or $50K offer. (lol.) OPM withdrew offer of settlement.
(C) CCF learned from Amy M* details of Purdy’s activities while at OPM and of the three Grecos’ knowledge of (and thereby OPM’s complicity with regard (to such activities).
(D) Amy M* filed Sexual Harassment Complaint against OPM/Purdy.
(E) OPM offered CCF $7,500 settlement of DFEH Complaints. CCF countered with $10,000 offer. OPM withdrew offer of settlement.
(F) Borkenheim told DFEH that CCF had sent “pornographic materials” to OPM, a blatantly false, shocking, hurtful, harmful and defamatory statement.
(G) CCF closed DFEH Claim and received Right-to-Sue Letter with intent to sue OPM in civil court but depression and embarrassment over July 2005 attempted sale of manuscript derailed the effort.
June, 2008: CCF sent Borkenheim offer of CCF/OPM settlement with regard to the issues at hand. Borkenheim replied that the statute of limitations for DFEH Complaints had expired and that there were no issues to be settled.
To Present: The situation remains unresolved in my life and while I do not anticipate or require an insincere apology or even acknowledgement of wrongdoing, the fact that undeserved wrongs were clearly done to me which ended my employment, denied me housing, and greatly and negatively impacted my health and professional life (harm brought as well by Farr’s involvement [an OPM fellow-Resident Manager I’d considered a work friend and whom I trusted and had liked a great deal (I still remember Minnie asking me at the OPM Xmas party just months before the situation exploded if she could sit with me because she apparently felt a little out-of-place and lonely and we shared dinner, conversation and laughs together]) and in an attempt to put ‘old business’ to rest and to move on to new projects in my life, including perhaps a move to L.A., I seek recompense for injuries sustained at the hands of those referenced above who injured me.
As I lost two jobs (plus ad hoc hourly labor wages) and my housing through no fault of my own as a result of the actions taken against me as described above, and seeking no form of “pain and suffering award,” I seek a settlement from you which merely reimburses me for one year’s lost wages, which I believe to be both fair and justifiable in light of the situation as it unfolded, as follows:
( A ) As Executive Assistant: $27,040 + $1,000 year-end bonus: $28,040. ( B ) As Resident Manager and $10/Hour Laborer @ 4128 Wabash Ave: $9,528 + $5,000: $14,728.
Total Settlement Requested: $42,768.
Please have your legal representative(s) reply by letter via email or hard copy on or before my birthday, April 2nd.
Thank you all for your time and consideration with regard to the matter at hand.
** Publication of "DFE in the Information Age" to follow.
FINAL NOTE: I have to date received no reply to this letter. Let the chips fall where and on whom they may.