You Are So Done With Us

Gretchen Morgenson takes on corporations that bully analysts. The best nugget is this e-mail from Douglas P. Smith, the CFO of Mercury Interactive, to a wayward analyst:

Why don’t I just call you up and get my weekly forecast update. This is just so over the top in terms of National Enquirer journalism. Not to mention being filled with numerous factual errors and misrepresentations. Since you seem to believe that you have a reliable and trustworthy ‘mole’ inside of Mercury, then I see no reason for you to have any other relations with the rest of our company. You are so done with us. See ya, Doug Smith

Charming fellow, no?

Posted by on August 2nd, 2005 at 10:50 am


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