[DeTomaso] Removal of Michael Shortt as President of POCA

[Stephen]

I remember once back when, during the time I was working in Cape Town, South
Africa, at a refinery,  We were having problems with the analytical lab
results.  As we looked into the issue we kept coming up against problems
being created by one of the lab employees who went out of his way to
belittle and harass other lab workers.  Said problem child finally pissed
off the ops manager and went away.  Suddenly many problems just disappeared
- folks who had been harassed and who responded badly suddenly turned around
and were great employees again.

Learned something from that - and I suspect we will see it here - now that
the special someone is gone who believed it was his way or the highway.

I hope the shorttt one enjoys the ride down that highway.  Now I can re-up
my membership.

THANK YOU TO THE REMAINING BOARD - I can only hope you can take the good
ideas that the shortttt one had, without the personality issues and other
baggage.

Stephen Nelson 5332



-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On Behalf
Of Larry Finch via DeTomaso
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2016 3:27 PM
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Subject: [DeTomaso] Removal of Michael Shortt as President of POCA

All,

Hmmm.
 
BOD meeting with full 5 day notice, as per Bylaws.
 
BOD acted on agenda item and voted with 2/3 majority to vacate MS as POCA
President, as per Bylaws.
 
BOD sent notice of action to MS with certified mail.
 
MS has thirty (30) days to present his response.
 
This is not a coup.  A coup is an illegal taking of power, not a BOD action
taken as per the Bylaws.
 
For those members who have wanted some sort of  'vote of confidence'
distributed to all the members, our Bylaws offer no such option.  
 
For those members  who think preliminary less-disruptive steps should have
proceeded MS's removal from office, our bylaws require no such formal steps.

 
However, the last six months have been filled with multiple, repeated BOD
and general membership requests/pleas/beggings for MS to cease his
"...rude,vulgar,offensive, threatening and condescending communications with
POCA members and Board members." 
 
MS consistently responded to such requests with promises to do better. MS
consistently failed to keep those promises. 
 
As Strother "Captain" Martin so eloquently said:
 
"...Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more
than you men."
 
 
Larry