I tend to believe I know Denys well enough to agree with his statement,
"That would not have stopped me." Unfortunately Denys wasn't there at the
time. The event, however ugly, happened and now it's time for Interex to
explain what happened leading up to it, why they made the decisions they
did, and what actions (if any) they plan to make differently going forward.
Thanx,
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Denys Beauchemin
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 4:00 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Press exclusion from management roundtables
at HPWorld 2002
I do not know why they did not speak up but I can assure you that it is not
Interex policy to exclude the press. That incident was a screw up and
should not have happened. I can only guess that Bob and Ed did nothing
because they were just as surprised as you all were and the board is not
supposed to interfere with operational activities. That would not have
stopped me. :)
Denys...
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Brian Duncombe
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 2:37 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT: Press exclusion from management roundtables at HPWorld 2002
At 01:49 PM 9/30/2002 -0500, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
<snip>
>Two things come to mind.
>
>1- Not a single one of the protagonists came to tell me about it. They all
>knew where to find me but instead they chose to grandstand. I have no
>problems with grandstanding. I have done that myself on occasion. But it
>would have been even more efficient to tell me or some other director or
Ron
>Evans about it and ALSO do the grandstanding.
>
>2- I am surprised that none of the offended parties even considered for a
>second that someone might have screwed up. It could not have been an
>Interex policy and they knew that, by the simple expedient that Interex is
a
>member of the press! That's part of what we do! No one realized the
>dichotomy, instead they ran for the nearest soapbox.
Given that both the current and immediately past chair of the Interex board
was in the audience and did not speak out and correct the situation, I was
left to assume that the Interex board was in agreement with the press ban.
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