Interpreting the Alticor / Amway Spin, Part I

Dear Readers,

Included in this first posting on the IAA, you will find an official posting from the Alticor Media Blog in black along with my Clarified Interpretation in bold, italics, and blue. I welcome and look forward to your feedback!

- The Honcho



Posted on the Alticor Medial Blog (http://media.alticorblogs.com/)
October 24th, 2007 @ 8:45 pm ET…

Why we fight, part 1

After being on the defensive for 20 straight legal attacks, we filed suit yesterday against the corporation that owns TEAM.

Clarified Interpretation: After starting an offensive on August 9th and not effectively stopping TEAM, we filed another frivolous lawsuit again yesterday against the corporation that owns TEAM.

We filed suit because the single legal case we brought (and won) in this matter listed Orrin Woodward as a defendant—but Woodward then claimed to have magically disappeared as the manager of TEAM before the case was heard. (A legal trick like that is like pretending Rich and Jay have nothing to do with our company—but never mind. We’ll straighten it out.)

Clarified Interpretation: We filed suit because the legal case we brought in this matter listed Orrin & Chris; not the TEAM. (We thought they had started a competing MLM, but obviously we were wrong - OOPS!). Woodward resigned as manager of TEAM without checking with us first (this really made us mad since we officially own him!) and the judge ruled they could have meetings (without our permission?!?!). (We eventually used a legal trick and attempted to convince the judge we meant TEAM all along even though it was never listed in our TRO since TEAM is an SM company and not a competing MLM – we lost.)

We filed suit because TEAM has had multiple chances to play by the rules in this dispute, but have gambled that they do not have to play by them. They have interfered with non-compete agreements. They have interfered with non-solicitation agreements. They refuse to arbitrate.

Clarified Interpretation: We filed suit because TEAM has played by the rules in this dispute and the judge in our backyard ruled in our favor. We gambled that we could confuse the judge – he immediately sniffed out our true intentions of trickery and gave us a well deserved spanking. The TEAM has NOT started a competing MLM. Period. In order to satisfy our insatiable private agenda, we must say the TEAM is a competing MLM in order to accuse them of interfering with out non-compete clause. (Remember, character means nothing to us. Our value lies within our reputation (talk about needing a check-up from the neck up!!) and we have tons of money to spend on lawyers and our PR spin!). We could not find a single piece of evidence that Orrin or Chris solicited for a new business (since there isn’t one in existence) so we spun that angle too. They agreed to arbitrate, but we want to shut down their entire business and arbitration will take too long and our chances of doing so are slim to none.

But most of all, we are filing suit because TEAM has taken proprietary business information from Quixtar that IBO's could be using right now to build Quixtar businesses.

Clarified Interpretation: But most of all, we are filing suit because TEAM has embarrassed us by following their leadership instead of bowing to our threats and childish demands. Without the people, we lose our “Jay Factor” profits and that has really ticked off the families and put the official status of my legal job on the line. I sure hope the Nevada judge buys into our perspective that we truly own anyone who ever signs an IBO application or I will be fired and then sold by the family.

If you leave your place of work today, you would leave behind your tools and information so that those who remain can carry on the business. You can’t help yourself to your computer, the stapler, the coffeemaker—or the company’s customer list.

Clarified Interpretation: If you ask Quixtar to amicably leave and you have over a $100 million business that we profit over 25% on, then you will never be allowed to leave! We will trump up charges to terminate you and then sue you for your net worth the very next day. Don’t even bother with trying to negotiate a settlement even if you point out we have regulatory issues across the world and are being sued by top notch attorneys the world over. You still cannot take your friends and families from us or our founding families children will have to go out and earn an honest living. Totally unacceptable! As their chief of legal counsel, I personally came up with the egregious customer list. I don’t care if the judge in Grand Rapids didn’t buy it – there are judges all over and all I have to do is find one to save my job!!

That is ethically and morally wrong. It is also legally wrong. And that’s why we filed suit.

Clarified Interpretation: I know this is ethically and morally wrong but, darn it, I need my job! It is also legally wrong, but that has never stopped Alticor, Amway, or Quixtar and it certainly won’t stop us know. And that, in a nutshell, is why we filed the suit.

Filed by: Corporate Communications
Posted in: Alticor, Amway, Quixtar, Transformation

Interpreted by: The Honcho