Quote: (Originally Posted by Genesis)
To buy Jerrod's story you have to believe that Barry was Halcyon's "Most Senior Manager", was paid a "healthy salary" (in relationship to his value to the company), and for reasons unexplained decided to intentionally damage Halcyon's vendor relationships, set up his own company and then steal $100k+ worth of raw materials and "trick" employees into doing work for his firm (while presumably on Halcyon's clock). You must believe that Barry thought that $100k worth of raw materials taken from a small company either could not be traced to him, or that it would not be discovered missing at all. You have to believe that someone of Barry's intelligence (which you must evaluate by what you know of either him or his products, as that's all you've got to go on) would believe he could "get away" with stealing the material (in whatever form "get away with" actually means to him.) Finally you have to believe that its unreasonable (or even unethical or worse) to file paperwork to set up your own company before formally resigning from your position.
One other thing you have to buy is that Barry would be stupid enough to leave the Halcyon shipping tags on all or some of the pilfered supplies. That seems to be a bit out of the realm of possibility in my mind. Anyone who is knowingly doing wrong with a touch of intelligence would remove anything linking the stolen goods to the rightful owner.
It seems to me that Barry had a fairly successful light business before Halcyon involvement and Jarrod expects people to believe that he would just up and work for Halcyon for just a salary. Most entrepeneurial people don't give up their freedom and provide the equipment to bolster a company's product line just for a paycheck.
Of course, if we look at the whole picture it would seem that Halcyon does quite a business of keeping lawyers employed. Between the Sartek suit against Halcyon/Brownies and the Halcyon/Brownies suit against various manufacturers (rumored to be oxycheq and others) for their counterweight systems.
SDOC0049.pdf
and now, presumably, libel against Barry and whoever else posted on behalf of Salvo it would seem they're spending an awful lot of time taking from others while fighting against those they claim are taking from them.
If Halcyon was such an above board company then I doubt Sartek would have won their patent infringement suit for the lights.
Based on Halcyon's history, I'll lean towards believing Barry's side of the story.