RE: Off topic - Interesting or alarming16 Oct 2019 12:30
If anybody thinks we only have ourselves to blame then I disagree. We made our investment decisions mainly based on what Parsons et al were telling us to our faces over a long period of time. If you can't believe what a CEO says to you then who or what are you to believe? I don't make the rules, I am not party to the fine detail but when a CEO looks at me and in earnest tells me that he is going to leave a financial legacy for me and my family then I believed him. What I was unaware of up until recent times is that all along the guy had been winging it and was hitting and hoping he'd stumble across copious amount of gas. Well that hasn't happened despite their continued claims there is oodles of TCF's under our acreage. I hope he realises that he has upset, frustrated and left a lot of good, honest, hardworking people between a rock and a hard place - or in my case, a fritter and a chip shop. Cheers mate. And the irony of the situation is that should he deliver us a decent enough LE then the past would be fairly quickly erased because I like to judge people on their results and not hearsay. Simples....if he delivers us a decent result then fair play. His reputation would be restored and we can all move on from this feeling better about ourselves and our finances. I've learnt nothing from this experience other than to never ever believe anything a CEO tells you. In this case, doing your own research would have got you nowhere fast because throughout the process we were fed overinflated figures coupled with overinflated promises and egos. The only thing that has been overinflated has been the wages they have paid themselves as we have become poorer and angrier. The clock is ticking and we're fast approaching end of year. Let's see if Parsons can do one thing right and that is to get us a deal that will see us get our money back with some profit. Is that asking too much for years and years of being told about 31TCF and financial legacies, not to mention Bugatti Veyrons.