A silly Christmas/New Year’s present for the silly season

And the recipient is: me!

For those, less informed about the subject, according to Wikipedia: “In Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, the silly season has come to refer to the Christmas/New Year festive period (which occurs during the summer season in the Southern Hemisphere) on account of the higher than usual number of social engagements where the consumption of alcohol is typical.”

Thanks to the silly season (I guess) bang on Christmas Eve, I received a direct email from Mr Hamish Tyrwhitt, Leighton Holdings’ CEO, where he implies, that the delivery of my (previously sent) message has been prevented due to my email address getting ‘blacklisted’.

So, after accepting messages from me written over various intervals for 13 months– he finally, says, ‘that’s it – no more’;

With the same move he also confirms indirectly, that he had received all of the ones I sent before getting ‘blacklisted’.

(part of the first ones I sent  is copied here, just to give a bit of a taste of topics I wanted for him to look at, for those in the know);

Thank you, Mr Tyrwhitt for clearing this issue up for me!

I can (obviously) no longer write to you directly, but I’m sure, someone else will forward you my thanks.

Have a happy New Year!

Z

From: Zolna Murray
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 3:54 PM
To: Riad T. Sadik; mohammed@habtoor.com; hamish.tyrwhitt@leighton.com.au; peter.gregg@leighton.com.au
Subject: blowing the whistle, again and again…
Importance: High

Good afternoon gentlemen!

 I’ve been with the company for just over 18 months.

I could have saved the company at least that many times 10 millions of dirhams had my advice been listened to by my superiors.

You may think you’ve seen it all and you can quietly tidy up the mess and close up the company with no damage to yourselves and those that own it.

Or at least no more damage than what has been already assessed.

You are wrong.

 Mafraq will blow up and haunt you for years. Qusahwira will too, as well as ADIB.

Al Bustan is nothing even close to being managed and will cost you hundreds of millions of dirhams to defend.

 I would be pleased to explain my reasons behind the above statements and strategies to recover, given the chance.

Regards,

Zolna Murray