Would you please
get your unruly child Gammon get to behave in an orderly manner urgently, stop
his bullying activities and get him to clean up after his mess in the
playground.
Otherwise, we will
have no choice but to remove him from our well respected institution (other
parents have been complaining already);
Sincerely,
The Principal
Yeah, yeah – I’m still whinging- you may think.
But, there is a slight shift in the tone that you may have
missed.
I’m in the ‘upwards-and-onwards’ kind of a way, even if a
bit still rattled.
I have biiiiiig plans…just don’t tell anyone yet!
For the immediate next couple of days, I still have to
clean up after someone else’s crap.
(I do apologise for the language, but there is no nice
way to say this);
See, we all know the story by now:
Gammon scammed me into coming over the HK. Oh, silly me,
how could I walk into it?
Any attempt of my following the sacking to open the eyes
of the good people of Hong Kong how their scammers operate was an absolute
disaster;
(i.e. who cares, these are our scammers, we like them the
way they are – go away, stranger);
OK, fair enough.
Now, I say – OK Gammon, you won for the moment, I’m
out-of-here…
Can you please be a dear and tidy up the mess you created
(you know, all the long term contracts that we only got into because you
vouched for us?)
…. Guess what Gammon said when asked to do this in the
bestest civilised way I can do:
(Yes, I CAN behave in a civilised way)
‘We don’t want to know, it is a ‘personal’ matter’…..
PERSONAL?
You sure are right there…can’t remember any entity
pissing me off personally (sorry again about the language) as much as you had,
not even Leightons, and that is quite something!
So, due to your childish behaviour Gammon, I am
addressing your parent companies, Balfour Beatty and Jardines directly.
And, I expect and answer, swiftly!
As good parents you must exercise your right and duty to
discipline this child, just as much as you use every opportunity to boast when
the child appears to do something good for your financial performance (see both
of you reporting on Gammon winning the:
‘The HKSAR Highways
contract to construct the Southern Connection Viaduct Section of the Tuen Mun –
Chek Lap Kok Link (TM-CLKL) in Hong Kong is the largest solo civil engineering
contract ever awarded to Gammon Construction.’)
On this latter news, I’d be a bit cautious too – it will
blow up ‘big time’ in your face, let’s say in about 3 years, give or take 6
months. Though, one person will probably be out of harm’s way by then, John
Clark the current, Engineering Director at TMCLK Link - Southern Viaducts at
Gammon Construction Limited, as long as he reaches the magic 3-zero long
service bonus, no one will care that he may have been a bit hesitant regarding D&B
projects some time ago.
Still, dear Mr and Mrs J-BB (I wonder which one wears the
pants in this parent relationship) – I’m not asking you to believe me at this
stage that most of the projects your ‘almost golden goose’ is sitting on will spectacularly
fail in the future, that would be far too hopeful of me, considering that you do
not believe me about the factual events reported on that were happening at
present;
I’m only asking to get Gammon to front up to the schools
of my children and explain to them what happened, the residential agent and the
landlord that is losing out and pay the utility bills that are owed;
Peanuts considering what you are losing by kicking me
out.
But hey, time will tell you that. Unless your own long
service time limit kicks in before that.
There is for hope for you!
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