Andy,

I have now tried to reach you several times by emails (both BD and gmail), cell phone (leaving several VMs) and SMS for the last +3 weeks - typically with a request to call back, let me know when I can call you and/or to provide me information which has been discussed for long, long time already. I have also asked many of our team members to reach out to you to have you contacting me just in case you indeed have some special issues getting emails, voice mails and SMS messages from me. I have not heard back anything from you other than your quick email earlier this week and another email about 3 weeks ago accordinding to which you had tried to email something but it did not come to me or Melanie.

Clearly, this is not a state we can operate from within. Take this as my last effort to resolve the disconnect and see how we could get things somehow working again. I'll have very little, ir any, email connectivity from Fri late afternoon till Tue next week as I'll be traveling in Europe before heading back to US and planning to have my first week-end off this year. I'll be reachable by cell phone though, except when sleeping, traveling in plane etc. I'll use my European cell phone. I can surely call you on the week-end (or even later today) or Monday if you can make yourself available. I will not be calling and leaving another VM to you anymore, though.

We need to get some good clarity into the situation quickly before I'll head back to US on Tue morning before making our decisions.

Kind regards

Peter             

Peter,

Thank you very much for your email, I greatly enjoyed reading it and its contents amused me enormously.

First off, as you very well know, I had a family emergency that resulted in me having to contemplate burying a very close family member. Maybe this is an experience you're used to but it was a first occasion for me and it caused me some significant trauma. So much so that I wasn't focussed on "the task at hand" and informed you I would be taking some time off. This was on the 30th June.

I'm particularly surprised that you said you haven't heard from me, as I am looking, right this very second, at a response to my 30th June email from 

your work account. To the best of my knowledge, "the 30th June" is actually only 8 days ago, and not the 21 you claim. But maybe thats just my maths not being as good as yours.

Secondly, you also have voicemails from me on your mobile phone, telling you that I will be taking time of for a family emergency. Now silly me for assuming a message saying "I'm taking time off for a family emergency" isn't a clear enough indication that I won't be available, I will try and learn to speak proper English for you, its only my 1st language afterall, whereas you probably learned better English when you were being taught it as a second language in Finland.

Finally, my bad for sending an email to the central group address saying "I won't be available for a time as I'm dealing with a family emergency", a similar message is set as my out of office auto-responder, which seems to be working, well I can only assume that as my customers have responded saying nice things like "hope all is well", or "take your time, family is precious". Clearly I did that wrong: You being the only person who didn't respond with any sensitivity clearly suggests I wrote the wrong out of office message. Again, my bad, I'm sorry.

Oh, before I forget, you ALSO have an email from me on the 29th, when I sent you my pipeline report for H2/2010. At least I think I sent it to you, let me go check.... yes, yes, I definitely have a "thank you Andy" message from you on the 29th June. How did your presentation go by the way? You were giving it on the 1st weren't you, did you get responses from the other sales guys? Or maybe not, they're all on holiday aren't they as some shmuck signed off the entire teams leave during the time of our QBR. Boy has that idiot got egg on his face! I heard that you promised 170% increase over H1, I have to say I'm really impressed, I mean how on earth did you create that number when you only had 1 sales report out of 6 to base it on?

Wow, you're really amazing if you can pluck numbers like that out of thin air I have to say!

Now if I can move on to your next comment "take this as the last effort to resolve the disconnect". Again this must be my bad English. you see, in Europe, when some has "holiday", what it means is "they're not available" and leaving messages on said persons phone is considered "rude". I know I know, crazy aren't we and heaven forbid a family member gets taken to hospital and needs urgent attention and care or anything distracting like that.... Anyway what I wanted to let you know, friend to friend is leaving 3 messages on my voicemail AFTER you let me know you won't be chasing me anymore is kind of dumb, in the UK we call you a "cretin", I believe the politically correct term in the US is "douchebag". Thats just a little tip for you.

So in summary, I'm sorry for "having a life" and its my bad for "caring about my family". I will try and devote all my waking energy to your piss poor management, your lack of sensitivity, your utter deceitfulness at the QBR, your inability to secure funding for the team, your inability to fix problems and your total lack of people skills. Its a dream I know, but maybe 1 day I can be as awesome as you!

Kind regards

Andy