Allegation Update
In a recent posting on our site, we made comment on a signer’s remarks regarding allegations that Allied Telesis did not make good on some employees paychecks for a period of several months (see New One For Me…WOW!). We immediately put out a call for anyone who could verify the story posted by the signer, but have yet to hear from anyone who could verify the allegation.
AAFES official response to the allegation:
Lorenzo Salgado AAFES Yokota GM
October 28th, 2008 at 11:55 amDear Blogger,
I would like to resolve this matter. According to the Allied GM, the allegations are false. In order for AAFES to verify this claim, I will need the name of the individual claiming to have worked without being paid. AAFES takes this very seriously. Please have the individual contact me at 225-3700. I will verify and work this personally to ensure this is taken care of.
Larry Salgado
Yokota AAFES GM
Additionally, Allied Telesis’s Yokota General Manager provided us with a statement:
“The general statement and allegation that no payments were made to military dependents working in the main (BX) office for a period of 2 to 4 months is just not true. We can confirm that there are no outstanding claims from contract employees for unpaid invoices.”
BruSe C. Green
Yokota General Manager
Allied Telesis Capital Corporation
As a consequence of not receiving any corroborating information from the community aside from the signer, we are marking the allegations as a bad lead. This is by no means a condemnation of petition signer’s remarks as they were probably made in good faith, rather this is us pulling back from the allegations until we can confirm them via 3rd party information.
We take the validity of information posted on this site very seriously. While much of what we write is can be construed as opinionated, it is based on official accounts and/or documents we have in our possession and our interpretation thereof as well as countless hours of phone conversations with other companies to gain valuable insight. We are always more than happy to receive information for us to look in to, but we try to have at least 2 or more independent verifications of rumors before we post such information as in the case of our recent article regarding the debts owed by Allied Telesis Yokota to other companies such as SAIC. In this case we had been monitoring that particular nugget for about six months now and finally was able to gain an independent verification from a 3rd party who was in no way connected to our original source. As you can see, not everything we hear about is written about until it can be verified.
If you know of a story you would like to see us write about, please contact us at: webmaster@alliedtelesissucks.org.