Charlie or Lee

[Incognito]

Good to have you back this week Vader.

How was Winterpeg?

[bombay_43]

Well I just had a yelling match with my territory manager! He knew all about my problem, as he had spoken to the boys in town. Funny, if he knew we had a problem, why did he not contact us? He told me that I was lying to him, when I said that Agricore United was plugged in November 2004, when we were harvesting our tough canola. He says that is absolutely not true!

He claims that I do have a contract, but did not come in to sign it, and that the end date was March 31, 2005! All this still without me seeing or signing any contract! I wonder how many of you would be keeping canola that AU tested on February 8, 2005 until March 31 when it showed it had 13% moisture!

I am really pissed off with the treatment AU is handing out. This territory manager is the 4th person that I have spoken to regarding this matter, and I finally yelled back at this boy, “YOU DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO COLLECT THIS BILL, AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL TO DEAL WITH!” For those who don’t know by now, I was talking with tongue in cheek!!

I have been getting quite an eye opener regarding wages paid to Directors, and Chief officers with the company. Can someone here confirm that the top paid officer, received a salary of $737,779 and $73,779 in other compensation in 2004? Perhaps I am reading these charts wrong. Definitely time to get our shares out of AU!!

[Zaphod]

I worked for AU for quite a few years and can honestly say that ADM had virtually no input into the way the operations of the company or its policies. And I was involved enough to know if ADM was part of the decision-making. Essentially, the board members from ADM would show up for a couple of days per quarter but there was almost no contact otherwise.

On the other issue, if a contract is not signed, the company would have no leg to stand on in court. AU was constantly telling its front-line reps that it was their job to get a signature on a contract because the contract could not be enforced otherwise. The only caution I have is that they may have recorded the conversations when the contract was agreed to over the phone. They would sometimes do that to avoid getting the signature, especially if you live farther away from the AU location. If so, you may have a tougher time.