Re: Fleecy's credibility/NG Amiga illusions
 Author: fleecy moss
 Email:  fleecy@netreach.net
 Date:   1998/11/18
 Forum:  comp.sys.amiga.misc

 Geof Abruzzi wrote:

 > : >I no longer work for Amiga Inc.
 > :
 > : What happened?
 > : Better opportunity I hope?
 > : Or you also are fed up with the night life in South Dakota? :-)

 > Since nobody has stepped in to quell the idle speculation ;-),
 > how's this for a theory:

 > Fleecy is a UK citizen, right?  Doesn't it mean he needs special
 > papers to hold a job in the US?  Havemose mentioned on the IRC
 > transcripts the Fleecy was stuck back in the US due to visa
 > problems, right?  Is it possible that some of these problems
 > involve losing the right to work in this country (due to
 > negligence, beauracracy, or whatever?)

 Nope - I am on an H1-visa, you get 3 years, then can renew  for  a
 second three years. I am on 4 years of 6. To have such a visa, you
 need to sponsored by a company. For the first 3.5 years, I  worked
 for  a great Canadian out of London who placed me with Fortune 500
 companies doing ERP and  distributed  systems  design  and  senior
 project  management  (CORBA,  Oracle, Baan etc). Amiga Inc took my
 visa over, so I could work for them. However, it was also  alluded
 to  that  they would get my family and I a green card, which makes
 sense if they saw a future for me. However,  when  in  green  card
 status,  you  are  not  supposed  to  leave  the  country, or your
 application gets shoved to the bottom. After 5 months of asking, I
 finally got the answer from Gateway that they couldn't "Guarantee"
 I could get back into the USA. Not surprisingly, I didn't take the
 chance.

 As it turned out, I wouldn't have gone to Cologne anyway since  on
 Wednesday,  Schindler phoned up to tell me there wasn't a position
 for me with the future Amiga company.

 That is all I can legally say.

 I will say that I  have  and  will  always  support  and  campaign
 actively for the Amiga community. It have made many great contacts
 and am pursuing them even now to ensure that native  Amiga  talent
 can  thrive  and  prosper, that the community gets the systems and
 software that it wants and that we can all move forwards.

 Also, some corrections to postings I have seen;

 1 - I am very pleased with QNX
 2 - I have always been a fan of PPC, as Joe Torre was.
 3 - When you work for a company, you are under obligation to them.