Re: Kansas firm sells candid Wal-Mart videos

[Ron Lindeboom] ". I once had a girlfriend who called me "...a 19th century moralist living in the 20th century." In response I said, "thanks." Today I have moved on to being a 19th century moralist living in the 21st century. Now that's progress, baby! "

Ron, I am steaming over this one. The actions of this vindictive pair could hurt all of us. I have stuff in my library that could cause many firings, lawsuites, public humiliation, divorce and every thing else under the sun. Someone earlier said that we needed to look at this professionally and drop the name calling. However, I think someone needs to take this low life Flagler cry baby, piece of crap out and beat some sense into him. Speaking about him on a professional level is an injustice to the word itself. The backlash to the rest of us could be incredible.

When our clients hire us, they expect a certain level of professionalism on our part which includes keeping company business where it belongs, with the company, just like Vegas. Vegas' entire campaign is "We won't rat you out". I agree that if we were to see some flagrant violation of human rights or major crime, we should deal with it in a professional manner. That would entail telling the client that we no longer wish to have a business arrangement with them and then contact the proper authorities to get the wheels of justice rolling. I was on a $3000 a day "exercise video shoot" once when the main girl's top came off and we told producer that we didn't work in the porn industry. He said that he would "Tell the world" that we walked out on him and we did just that. Any "word" from him and the consequences would have been drastic. No court house and no lawyers. He knows that I have no problem doing 30 days to protect my reputation.

As for Flagler, getting fired and then putting his client's secrets out there for sale is nothing but pure GREED, GREED, GREED, mixed with the ethics of a teenager. There isn't one ounce of professionalism involved here, just sheer greed.

If he hates WalMart so much, he should begin by returning the money he took from them. Oh, he won't do that? So, it's ok to keep the money they gave him and if he had a problem with their corporate policies, he should have quit. But no, his greed kept him taking the checks to the bank. What a pathetic little weasle.








Steve Wargo
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