This is the email sent to my from Mark Smith after I quit on the 14th of Feb 2004. The next day he had 2 threatening Japanese male goons sent around to the apartment in Morinomiya in which I lived at the time.
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Begin forwarded message:
From: Mark Smith <mark@sse-franchise.com>
Date: February 20, 2004 8:25:45 AM JST
To: scotty spargo <spargz@hotmail.com>
Subject: update from Smith
Hi Scotty,
Still no contact from you and no idea where you are. I have asked xx to put me in touch with you and he simply keeps you information confidential. I respect that in because in an effort to get past xx
to be allowed to communicate with you directly I have been quite
harsh on xx.
He has been under terrible stress refusing me information
whilst knowing your contact details. He is a rock and will not release
any information as to your whereabouts. You have a good friend. I
think putting him in such a position is a bit naughty of you and
rather immature and unnecessary. Men should talk to each other. You need to contact me.
Emiko said you called and left a cryptic message. Something like "i
will see you" This scared her and I am asking you not to do that
again. Our staff as you know are all Japanese females and tend to scare easily. When you call in again please ask to be transfered to either Yuka or I.
Whist you have been away.
- I have terminated the use of your telephone hardware. I would
appreciate it of you would bring back the hardware to the office till you are ready to go again. I have maintained the account and have
been running a ghost on it which now becomes the main unit. Quite happy to pass this back over to you when you get back in to handling some of the work I still ready to offer.
- I have diverted your emails to my account and am maintaining a
watch. I am not terminating the address at this time.
- I have had to replace you as a teacher on Wed and Thursday. That
was a bit tricky due to the sudden nature of your departure. Even had me
back in the classroom! And I signed a trial! What a laugh.
But we have it covered now and all is well. I guess the good news on this
point is when you do come back I have no classroom work to offer. You
would be pure sales and franchise installation. As you know that's
where the best money is too.
- We have closed a total of seven new franchise sales in these last
weeks. What a blast. Of corse as I closed them I get to keep the
commissions. A share of that could have been yours Scotty. That is 9
new franchises coming in before August. (15,000USD x 9 = 135,000USD + 450,000 yen / month increase in turnover)
Now it didn't help that you left xx in the xx and we lost that one but apart from the embarrassment and minor scratch to our professional reputation we will be fine.
I am still living in hope that you will want to take a new role in the installation of these new franchises. Of course as every day goes by I need to allocate human resources to cover this responsibility.
Get back to me ASAP.
Derek is working like a Trojan. You would be very proud of his
advancement as a sales person. I know you saw the start of the study
he undertook in this pursuit and so I am sure if you saw his efforts
you be surprised at just how quickly he has learnt.
I am sure he is going to close his first full franchise sales within the next days.
We all know he could be done with the commission. Just hope he doesn't leave like you the day after he picks up the 500,000 commission. Just
joking mate. I am sure he will stay with the team.
- The new sales staff on the desk at Kyobashi are running at above
80% sign ups from calls this month. Our newest girl who doesn't even have a month with us yet just signed up a "man to man" as her first
success. What a team. (Together Everybody Achieves More)
- Looks like we sold Katsura. It's not 100% but looks good. 2,300,000
cash. I am surprised at that. But hey everyone is different and this
investor sees the gold in that location. Will be set up as a profit
share situation. I will be glad we move that one. Davo has been
getting a bit anxious. Perhaps eevn doubting the system. As you know
it wasn't an easy sale, one guy even ran back to Bankok!
Ok mate thats about it. Now the two things that I did mange to
squeeze out of xx were that he doesn't think you will be hanging around Osaka. Maybe even heading to China and that you have told Peter not to come to Smith's. I hope these are both just part of your smoke screen and that both you and Peter will be a part of the TEAM at Smith's.
Come on back Scotty. The work is great. the company is growing and
the success is a buzz.
Mark.
ps. xxxxx has said her first words. When I show her your photo she
points away and goos and gaas big time.
pps. xx dropped in a great photo of you and the team. We all want
to get back to that joy shared in that photo.
To stop being alone and come in and see me.
Next email.............Mark getting desperate.
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Begin forwarded message:
From: Mark Smith <mark@sse-franchise.com>
Date: February 23, 2004 9:28:03 AM JST
To: scotty spargo <spargz@hotmail.com>
Subject: Update
Dear Scotty,
Still no word from you. That's not good.
On a positive note. Yesterday turned out to be one of our best
seminars ever. We confirmed another franchise sale, took orders for 3
new sets of Craig's expanded curriculum and new new web sites. I am
sure you would of have enjoyed it. Thee positive atmosphere was
literally humming. Craig is getting really good at presenting his
curriculum and it is good to see him making some real money after the
years of work he put into building the curriculum. I am very proud of
him.
Actually I had a gut feel you may turn up at the seminar and in your
present state of mind, (according to feedback from your friends) that
would not have been very good at all. It seems that anyone who is
upset in any way with Smith's targets the seminars as a great place
to say what they have to say, to take a poke at me in the most
embarrassing location. Trouble is of course it's not me they would
hurt. I can't allow any disruption of the meetings as the lively
hoods of my staff, my franchisees and our suppliers ride on the success of these seminars.
Anyway looks like I worried needlessly. You didn't show up which is
good news. Glad to see you are a little more mature than those few
other ingrates who threatened to disrupt the positive environment
over the years. Now, having said that, when are you coming in to discuss
you work with Smith's. I am still waiting to hear from you directly
on what is happening.
Looking forward to hear from you.
Mark.