So I was reading Business 2.0's "101 Dumbest Moments in Business" for 2003 and came across the following memo:
"I expect my computers to be used for work only. I expect my phones to be used for work only. Should you receive a personal call, keep it short. Should you receive a personal e-mail, I expect the e-mail either not answered, or a brief note telling whoever is sending you e-mails at work to stop immediately. Should I go through machines, which I assure you, I will be doing, and I find anything to the contrary, you will be terminated immediately. For those who think I am kidding, and do not get with this program, I will promise you that by Christmas eve 8:00 you will be gone."
This despicable memo was sent by this shithead, otherwise known as Doug Monahan. I mean, who is this shithead to think that when people come to work they leave their personal life at the door, or more for that point to ignore people when they do send emails. "I know you're really sick honey, but you can't call me at work today". And then, for this shithead to threaten to fire people on Christmas is absolutely outstanding. This dickhead really knows how to motivate and inspire his employees and keep their morale high. God that is INSANE.
But then, the company he founded specializes in sending junk spam via faxes, so what do I expect? He's a slimeball to begin with.
If I had been his employee I would wiped my ass with this memo and left it on his desk. Fuck you Doug, and your attitude too. Just because the economy's bad doesn't mean that you get to start crapping on your employees. They're still human beings and deserve some common decency.
So let me ask...are your bosses still treating you well? Or have things become increasingly less employee-friendly at your job since the economy went into recession? And while we're at it, who was your worst boss ever? Comment, or email me your stories and I'll put them up here later.
Some random pages on my blog between January and April of last year can give you an idea of what kind of working environment I came from before finding my current position.
I was hired at the old business and was told grand stories of $1,800 per quarter profit-sharing bonuses, performance-driven raises as high as 10% a year, cut your own swath, make your own job, write your own ticket.
The first year of working 50 hour (but salaried) weeks and breaking the mold, I got a 4% raise (and I wasn't being paid very much, I took a $6,000 a year pay cut to take that job). After the second year the bonuses (which were occasionally around $1200 but never $1800) dwindled down to nothing... we got a bonus for $25 at Christmas and then were told the bonus program was being suspended indefinitely... my second year instead of getting a 4% raise, three weeks before my yearly increase/review they suspended all raises in the company, only to re-institute them a year later with 2% cost of living increases... The more middle management feared for their jobs, the more blame they put on non-management like myself... finally I got my job completely changed around and a lot of responsibilities added, but it wasn't a "promotion" because I wasn't being put in a position of management over other people, so my salary didn't increase...
Needless to say, I left there. Recessions are a great excuse for companies to crap all over their employees.
Ok, so, I used to work at SD and let's just say, I have a very, very detailed knowing of what did happen and what didn't.
This letter that you say is a fraud actually did circulate out to the Business Development team. It was strongly (attempted) shut down by the HR and execs as they really do look at themselves as the "clean up" crew of Doug. He's no longer associated with the company and they have since been bought. But, this email did go out, yes it did.
I wanted to write and tell you a little more about Sunset Direct and Doug Monahan.
Our days at SD were abusive, mostly because of Doug's drug addictions and total lack of people skills. He would do coke in the office, and smoke pot in his office, then wander around the halls telling people "they were no good."
The business did provide a service to customers, but Doug went through all sorts of renovations to the company to make it appear more than it was. He installed a raised-floor room for all of the high-tech servers that were driving SQL databases (I believe some of the displayed statistics were fake), and installed flat panel monitors outside the server room to show potential clients an MTV-style video...before they got to the security system...he wanted retina scanners and palm scanners. It was a sham.
Doug was obsessed with his business, although he rarely came into the office. Instead, he wanted employees to come to his $5000/month house on Lake Travis, where he would lounge around in his boxers and hold meetings. At one meeting, he was so wasted that "the goods" were peeking out of his shorts. He would take employees out in his boat for "business meetings," but the employees would be fully dressed in business attire, and he'd be in his shorts smoking a joint in the bow of the boat.
He also would hold parties and invite pretty waitresses from Outback Steakhouse over, and he kept a stock of little black dresses in his closet for them to wear so he would fee like Robert Palmer. He even tried to get his personal videographer (the guy he hired to chronicle his rise to fame and fortune) to follow him down 6th Street in Austin and act like he was paparazzi.
He would also hire pretty girls to be his assistant, then expect them to stay at his house, even buying a BMW roadster (blue) for his assistant Holly. She apparently suffered what was believed to be a drug overdose at one of his parties. Oh yeah, then there was one night that one of the sales managers wrecked his BMW company car...and they had to use the jaws of life to pry his girlfriend (another employee) from a compromising position in the car.
You cannot even imagine the stuff that went on at this company. Luckily the sales managers finally kicked him out...before he destroyed the company.
This sounds made up, but it's all true. I was there.
Sorry, the house was on Lake Austin. And did I mention that there were a number of sexual harassment lawsuits? This one girl Devon from the marketing department got enough money to buy herself a new Jeep.
Also, no jeans were allowed on Friday...or EVER.
There is also a promotional CD in existence that was sent to SD's customers that had an "easter egg." If you used a particular key combination at a certain time on the CD, it would play the music (without lyrics) to "White Lines," as a tribute to Doug's issues with coke. Another key combination would produce a Dilbert cartoon about wearing jeans at the office. One of the folks in marketing told me about it...
Another funny one...the day he fired the Marketing Director, we went out for pizza. The owner of the restaurant taught us how to throw pizza crust. We took it back to the office and someone filed it in Doug's filing cabinet under "P" for "pizza". I think we had all quit before it was found...I hope it smelled horrible!
Hes as psycho as hes reported to be
they kicked him out. bought him out of sunset direct
hes sittign in his house all coked up running an imaginary sunset direct knock off called "daybreak direct"
Hes as psycho as hes reported to be
they kicked him out. bought him out of sunset direct
hes sittign in his house all coked up running an imaginary sunset direct knock off called "daybreak direct"
Not anymore, he has since gone completely broke and you can buy some of his items on Craig's List. From what I'm hearing, he got evicted from his house!!!!
http://austin.craigslist.org/hsh/241121590.html
http://austin.craigslist.org/msg/241380540.html
http://austin.craigslist.org/msg/241716268.html
http://austin.craigslist.org/msg/241741687.html
Doug Monahan and I have been friends for about 9 years, and although it’s been over 8 years since I worked at the Outback Steakhouse, I am the girl spoken of in earlier entries. Anyways, first and foremost I can tell you with 100% surety that Doug Monahan is NOT – by any stretch of the imagination - a pedophile! That is ludicrous and could not be further from the truth! I can also tell you that Doug has NEVER sexually harassed me, nor do I believe that he ever sexually harassed any other women. He did, in fact, on several occasions hold meetings at his Lake Austin home, which I believe made him an easy target to extort money from with claims of sexual harassment, but the Doug Monahan that I know is simply NOT like that…Whatsoever! As a matter of Fact, one girl in particular who claimed sexual harassment, actually stayed the night at Doug’s house on several occasions, had consensual relations with him, accepted money from him to help pay for her law school, then had a falling out with him and turned around and sued him for Sexual Harassment – Unbelievable! And I watched this unfold right before me. So just because someone gets sued for sexual harassment – it doesn’t mean that they’re guilty of it.
As far as the Porn being downloaded in mass quantities at his house is concerned – it is absolutely true. Doug discovered that countless employees at Sunset Direct were looking at Porn on company time, so he decided to create a program that would tag every piece of porn out there with a mathematical algorithm, which he called a “snowflake value”. In order to tag each piece of porn with its individual unique number (snowflake value) he had to obtain it first which is why he downloaded it in mass quantities. The program would then be allowed to run on a network and if there were snowflake value matches then he new with certainty who was looking at porn and could determine how bad the problem was. So that’s why he had the porn – not because he’s some sexual deviant.
So now lets talk about Doug buying black dresses and “Robert Parmer” night. Oh what fun times we had!! And how by the way does that hurt anyone? So we wanted to make an “Entrance” – so what? What guy out there wouldn’t want to be Austin’s Hugh Hefner a few weekends of his life? It sounds to me like there are a few “Haters” out there. All I know is that we had fun! I was 24yrs old at the time, it was my idea, he agreed and we had a blast! I am 33 yrs old now with a husband and a baby, Doug and I are still great friends and guess what? – we get to sit around, look at pictures and talk and laugh about the silly fun we had. The fact that other people are still talking about it means that we accomplished what we set out to do, so the joke is on you. I just can’t believe that it would bother someone so much that they would right about it on a website like this – geese find something else to occupy your thoughts.
And by the way, Doug is NOT going broke. The reason some of his stuff is being sold on Craig’s List is because he is engaged to be married and is moving to a new home to begin a new life. Since he’s been a bachelor most of his life his home decor doesn’t exactly have a woman’s touch so they have decided to get rid of a lot of his stuff and replace it with all new stuff. So I’m sorry to inform you that once again you are all wrong.
Perhaps Doug is guilty of being hard to work for – yes he did expect perfection at times - he is an EXTREMELY hard worker and might have expected the same from his employees, but he is not the devil and if you really got to know him you would see that he is one of the most generous, kind-hearted individuals you've ever met.
First and foremost I can tell you with 100% surety that Doug Monahan IS IN DEED - a pedophile! I can prove it.
In fact, he is about to be prosecuted by for this and other illegal activities, such as not paying his employees - he likes to brag about screwing them out of two weeks pay, and then never giving it too them when they leave.
Only a fool would marry this insane drug addled abusive pedopholie.
He is broke, and I can prove that to... he was in over $200K credit card debt and couldn't pay his bills.
He snorted it all up his nose.
I know who you are, and if I'm wrong you are 'acting' as her - but really Doug.
Doug - do you know what they do to pedophiles in prison?
Leave Doug Alone...... Get a Fucking Life (Chad)
why does everyone care about Doug Monahan SOO much... and he does not do drugs anymore.
ive know doug for a very long time and ive heard about all of you cry babys. you should be ashamed.
Hey Doug,
It's nice of you to stop by and comment.
And it sounds like you haven't lost any of that legendary charm, you big dickface! Good for you big guy!
Doug Monahan is a piece of shit, one of the worst people I have ever come across in my lifetime.
He certainly fits the profile to be a pedophile - anyone who has been to his house or see how he treats young women would feel the same way.
I hear Doug is in jail currently. Anyone have any current info on that?
The girl who posted the apologetic entry advocating Doug Monahan's ethics,
(Posted by: SD Survivor | November 29, 2006 11:48 PM)
...I know of her well. I was working out of Doug's 5700 Scout Island Cove Austin, Texas 78731 Lake Austin residence as a Sunset Direct executive during the same period of time she and her bimbo friends from Outback Steakhouse were hanging around Doug's place so much (mainly, as I said, to mooch open bar policy booze, snort coke in Doug's upstairs, behind the velvet rope master suite bedroom and to drive his Scarab-like cigarette speed boat around Lake Austin). This girl was truly hot - a blonde with perfect tits, ass, hair and teeth - the entire package. Her older sister was Doug's executive assistant and gate-keeper to the drugs. Anyways, Doug had these three adjacent guest bedrooms on the lower level of his lake home where these girls would hang-out. These bedrooms were each fully-equipped with a complete mini-bar, snack buffet and large-screen TVs & DVD/VCR players. The bathroom cabinets were fully stocked with every imaginable body care product you could imagine - I mean EVERYTHING! It was like staying in a fully-stocked high-end hotel. Ohh yeah, always stocked with plenty of Trojan condoms and KY Jelly as well.
Anyways, I'll always remember a particular photo of this blonde bimbo in question - she and Doug Monahan next to a helicopter, posing like he owned it! Total fake! She was also quite dumb, but I did fuck her when she was drunk at one of Doug's notorious costume parties...she was actually pretty good. Brains-wise though, NO, she was definitely one of the female Sunset Direct associates that was specifically assigned to the 5700 Scout Island Cove house...would have totally sunk at the Loop 1 corporate HQ by the professional women.
As an undercover, covert DEA agent, I hired on at Sunset Direct specifically for the purpose of infiltrating Doug Monahan's inner-sanctum operations at 5700 Scout Island Cove. I worked out of the Loop 1 offices for a few months to pay dues and get established and then was offered an opportunity to do project management at Doug's home where several female bimbo-like telemarketers worked out of the lower floor.
The entire summer I spent working out of Doug's private home operations, I documented, copied, photographed, videotaped and audio recorded many instances and occurrences of rampant illegal drug use going on in the workplace during and after business hours. Work and pleasure blended into one at the Scout Island Cove operation. After my assignment there, I moved back to the Loop 1 HQ and stayed on long enough to get all my research and evidence compiled and submitted to my senior drug interdiction supervisors at the DEA.