Friday, March 17, 2006
Optimists Fire CFO
St. Louis, MO (FN) - The popular service club, Optimists International found themselves in court today over a bitter personal dispute with a former financial officer.
Gary Lombowski, former Chief Financial Officer and 20-year veteran of the club, is claiming damages of $250,000 against the organization for "imputing his professional reputation and unfairly disgracing him in front of his Optimist peers", according to a writ filed in Missouri Superior Court.
Lumbowski claims the Optimists fired him as CFO and stripped him of his membership after he filed an annual financial report last March. In the report, Lumbowski noted that declining revenue trends had put the organization in a severe deficit situation and that it would have to consider laying off staff and selling assets to rectify the situation.
The Optimists are denying that any professional slight was intended but stand by their move on the basis of the organization's charter.
"It wasn't that Gary's report was inaccurate. It's just that it wasn't, you know, very optimistic," said Optimist spokesman Henry Gerhard.
Lumbowski said that, if successful, he would use a portion of the settlement to form a competing service club for disillusioned Optimists.
"I was thinking of calling it the Pessimists, but that's too obvious. Instead, I'm thinking of calling it something like The Black Skulls. That'd be a pretty cool club name, eh?" Lumbowski said.
posted by Mentok @ 11:10 a.m.,
2 Comments:
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At 7:23 a.m.,
A. B. Chairiet said...
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Hi M,
I thought this one was real at first. So...Nice job. ;)
Hope you're doing well...
Happy Saturday and take care,
~ Ash -
At 11:18 a.m.,
Bathroom Hippo said...
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Hey!
The Black Skulls is taken.
P.S.
Don't mess with the Black Skulls.
