Company Timeline 2003 - 2006
By the end of 2004, we were becoming quite successful with
the business. We had a few bumps along the road during the first year, but
everything seemed to be starting to come around very well. We were beginning to
make a modest profit. We were starting to fit into the niche in the cleaning
industry that we were seeking. In
early 2005, we felt we needed a more aggressive and targeted approach in the
janitorial market. This meant we needed tighter control over the contracts we
had, plus taking on bigger projects and hiring more staff.
In March 2005, that
opportunity had emerged. Tenders were called for the Bridgewater Provincial
Building and Court House as well as the Digby Provincial Building and Court
House. We were confident if we could land one of these contracts, they would
give us the financial stability our company needed. Both contracts were for
three-year terms. This would provide us a more stable income with more room to
expand.
We were awarded the
contracts for the Bridgewater and Digby Provincial Buildings and Court House;
this is when a good part of the troubles began. Several e-mails surfaced,
addressed to the provincial Department of Transportation. One was from
provincial Attorney Services, (Crown Prosecutor Lloyd
Tancock); provincial Correction Services; and provincial Community Services
(Robert Deveoue). The e-mails stated that these provincial services weren’t
“comfortable” having our Operations Manager, Jeff Fraser, overseeing the
Provincial Building contract, which was his primary job.
Although, Jeff had a
past record and history with these people, it was some 15 years prior. We had
obtained the necessary Bonding & Insurance, but, this did not satisfy the
contracts. These were personalities. We went above and beyond our Contract to
accommodate these complaints and not cause trouble. We had 13 Employee's at this
point, and didn't want to jeopardize their livelihoods.
However, for some
unknown reason, these people made it their mission to create upset by lies and
innuendo, and destroy everything we had worked for. Rumours and gossip were
deliberately spread within the circle of people who were our contracts. In fact,
The Bridgewater Provincial Building Manager, Paul
Woodworth, deliberately interfered with a Contract we had just started in
the next building. We tried to work around this. Our Operations Manager, Jeff,
had complained to the head of the provincial Department of Transportation,
Hubert Ryan, without result. In fact, what the
Department ultimately did was remove us in June of 2005! At this point, we were
three Months into the Contract, invested nearly $30,000.00 into the Buildings
and haven't received any payment for our services.
We had no idea of the enormity of what
was about to transpire in the upcoming Months. We had lost hundreds of thousands
of dollars over the three-year term of these contracts! We still proceeded
forward in spite of the fact that a greater force was working against us. Soon
after, by the summer of 2005, an onslaught of events developed. A number of
serious banking irregularities started taking place. Mysterious collection
letters and harassing phone calls began. All of a sudden, and quite
inexplicably, the provincial Department of Labour, Revenue Canada and the
Workmen’s Compensation Board started to take an unusually great interest in our
company. There was a constant daily barrage of phone calls, illegitimate bills,
and other harassments. This drew much needed attention away from the contracts
at hand. In early July, 2005, Canada Revenue Agency, did an audit on our
Company. At this point, our Company was in it's third year of Businesses. They
had claimed our Company owed nearly $28.000.00 in GST and Payroll source
deductions. We disputed this, however, they already had placed a lean on our
Company Accounts and deducted the Money's without our prior knowledge. This had
caused some of our cheques to bounce. We made full restitution for those
cheques. We were reimbursed the Money they deducted, which took nearly three
Months for them to return. This lose of capital caused a great deal of
destruction to our Company.
The interference and
harassment got progressively worse. Week after week, there was something new. If
it wasn't Revenue Canada, it would be the Labour Board or other Agencies. We
were at a total loss as to what to do. We still tried to work the company and
its contracts, although most of them by now were being mowed down by gossip,
rumours and Government Bureaucracy.
The start of the new year of 2006, brought on a whole new wave of events that we were not accustomed to. The Bridgewater Police started showing up at our door. They accused us of deliberately bouncing cheques from the past year. We had explained what was going on, although, this was our Operations Manager, Jeff's past personalities from the Provincial Building Contract, coming back to haunt us. We were so busy with all the various events happening in the past six Months, that somewhere along the line, Spotless Cleaning was signed out its Parent Company's name. It was then registered to our operations Manager, Jeff. The police had already knew this before we did.
In March of 2006,
police harassment reached a new level! One night Tony and Jeff were on there way
home from Frenchy's in Liverpool after doing a floor job. It was around 2:30 AM
and both of them were tired. The RCMP had set up a road block on the way through
town. They had turned around to make a detour, hoping to avoid the hassle of
going through the checkpoint. Out of the blue, they had the police pull them
over in the Scobey's parking lot! Before long, there were three RCMP cruisers
surrounding them. Jeff was arrested, as they claimed they had a warrant for his
arrest. Jeff was taken to the Detachment Headquarters and charged for passing
more bad cheques in Liverpool from our own company We went from a Successful
Business the previous year to becoming wanted criminals the next year. For what
reason, we do not know?
At the end of March
2006, the RCMP again pulled Jeff over in Liverpool. They arrested him and
impounded the van. This time they claimed he robbed the Liverpool French's
store for $12. This was one of our cleaning contracts and probably the most
absurd claim ever made!
Our Company was
still in Business at this point, Late March 2006. The Nova Scotia Labour board,
had
circulated a letter to every bank in Nova
Scotia claiming we owed them a debt. This caused another lean on our Company
accounts and caused more Cheques to bounce.
We had it with the
Harassment and Gossip and couldn't compete with all the Bureaucracy around us.
We decided that we would seek help by making our plea through the political
medium. We decided to get behind the NDP Party in the
June 2006 Election.
Things just got
worse from this point. There was no way we could continue to do Business. The TD
Bank, with no explanation why, had shut down our accounts. To this day, we still
We couldn't get cheques drawn on the Company cashed and had no way to operate without a cash flow. This had forced us out of Business in the summer of 2006.
Many other factions contributed to finishing off what was left of the Company during the year following the downfall of Spotless Cleaning. The biggest of them all was the fabricated evidence against Jeff and Spotless in the Media the following summer of 2007.
Written by,
A.F.M. Management
Ltd, OA- Spotless Cleaning & Maintenance
This is a breakdown of the Renegade Jehovah Witnesses membership list, from 2007, above. These people in one form or another, have been involved in causing harm to our company. There are many many many others who are not mentioned, however, they do exist and we do know who they are!
When we researched the “Spotless Janitorial Services” name, we had learned that the Company was defunct and went bankrupt in 1997. The owner of the Company had indicated he had no interest in using the name again. We then took the necessary steps to acquire the name for our Company. The owner naturally assumed we were practicing members of the Jehovah Witnesses. Soon after we started using the name “Spotless Cleaning” and doing business again, the Jehovah Witnesses realized we were not affiliated with there organization, and therefore, the name "Spotless" should not of been released to us as non-members. We were told by members of their organization, the elders took offence to "outsiders" using or purchasing Company names that were owned by their members.
The three of us as shareholders of the company are gay people. Our community where we have lived in for many years in peace has never had an issue with this. However, as we soon learned, the Jehovah Witnesses are very strongly opposed to homosexuality, In fact, they outlaw it in their literature.
"The Jehovah's Witness religion teaches its membership to believe that homosexuality is 'detestable', 'an abomination', 'abhorrent', and is caused by demon possession" quoted from http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_jeh.htm
We just couldn't understand how so much hate could be directed towards us. We did nothing to these people, yet they are taught to denounce and hate us in their literature and teachings.
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