So Ben was sentenced last Thursday for stock fraud. The grace note is this: after resigning from Yomu (to protect the company, of course), he found a $200,000 job as VP of Engineering for a company called MemeStreams. He implemented his same hiring practices there; at one point he hired a DBA who couldn't A a DB; she worked in his office with the door closed, and at about that time the BenCam went off-line. He was having relations with three of his female subordinates, including being caught in flagrante delicto in the "engineering pit" with two of them after a company party at a bar. The DBA was fired after that because she was entirely unqualified, but everyone else remained. Investors came in and evaluated the company, picking off a lot of deadwood (including one former Yomu employee who, while smart and capable, was in way over his head at MemeStreams), but again keeping Ben. But this past Thursday, there was an interesting revelation. It seems that while the CEO knew about Ben's precarious legal situation, full disclosure had not been made to the investors. MemeStreams closed on Friday.
The double-grace note is that I was dumb enough to do some minor contract work for MemeStreams, on the grounds that Ben didn't actually control the money. I doubt I will ever get paid; the company is insolvent with $750,000 in debt and $3,000 in the bank. Oh, well.
Who wrote this? It says it's fiction... Hua?
