To: Chief Executive Officer Michael Edridge
Dear Mr Edridge,
My name is Sebastian, Sebastian Hart. May I call you Michael? It's after all our corporate regulation to call all co-workers by their first name. It certainly helps as a team building factor. I am glad you contacted me. I am terribly sorry, I did not initiate this conversation myself. You have to forgive me as I was extremely occupied with numerous projects, Michael. I am sure you understand it. Now listen to me, Michael. I really like you and I certainly appreciate your informal style of doing things. I sincerely want us to be good friends. So I will treat you like a good old friend and give you a friendly advice.
Living in a world of fantasy is very unprofessional, Michael. As your friend I am obliged to make you see the light. Nearly one and half year ago, when President Thaddeus Gideon resigned, shortly after Ageira suffered significant losses I must add, our share-holders decided that it would be the best course of action to introduce a new company model with multiple competing and relatively independent divisions, at least until one of them proves to be successful enough to take control over the others. Despite a catchy name, a great PR move I must congratulate you wholeheartedly, your division has the same status as Ageira Innovations. You have exactly the same legal right to interfere into our internal affairs as we into yours. None. Furthermore, as we obviously have access to corporate quarterly reports on generated revenue and employment levels, we do know that by no means we are the smaller branch here. Finally, it is needless to say how unprofessional issuing empty threats is. If you are trying to start a partnership by threatening the other party, you are certainly doing it wrong.
That being said, I completely understand that you could treat sudden emergence of Ageira Innovations as a threat to your position or your personal ambitions and acted under strong emotions. However, as a result instead of a friendly informal meeting with a bottle of finest Bretonian whisky, the atmosphere of this conversation has been unnecessarily polluted. You have now two options, Michael. You can keep living in your fantasy world, refute our "insolence" and waste a great deal of your energy on trying to undermine our efforts, which will only cause additional loses to Ageira Technologies as a whole, and as such will certainly be looked down on by the shareholders, or you can suck it up like a man, admit that you went a bit over the line and we can talk business.
Decision is yours, Mr Edridge.
Yours faithfully,
Sebastian Hart,
Director of R&D Department,
Ageira Innovations