Our Story .... Topchoice Does Not Want Anyone To Know !

By: David & Lorrie Clark

ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND THEIR DISMISSALS:

David Clark was employed by Top Choice Systems, Inc. in the position of Technical Support during the period from: May 01 1997 to: Sept 04 1998.

Lorrie Clark was employed by Top Choice Systems, Inc. in the position of Sales Rep during the period from: Aug 28 1997 to: Sept 04 1998.

On September 03 1998 David and Lorrie gave to the Administrator/Owner Erik Adlersparre a joint letter of notice that they were no longer prepared to knowingly make false statements or misrepresentations as a condition of their employment. The Original of this document was on this date initialed as being received by Erik Adlersparre and returned to David.

Copy of Notice Available For Viewing

On September 04 1998 Lorrie Clark was tasked to send out 3 separate pre-sales faxes to potential clients. These faxes contained misrepresentations. Lorrie informed Eriks Wife (Co-Owner) Susan Fidyk that she could not perform this task on her way out of the building for her coffee break, and provided Susan with the Fax numbers so that someone else could perform the task. Immediately upon returning from coffee both Lorrie and David were asked into the Administrators office by Susan. Both Lorrie and David were given their immediate termination of employment. Erik Adlersparre verbally gave the termination being on the grounds that we "were not willing to perform our duties under the policies in place by the company". David requested why he was being terminated for the actions of another employee. No reason was provided.

LEGAL ACTION COMMENCED:

Legal Counsel was immediately retained and by both Lorrie and David for the "Wrongful Dismissal" based on the grounds that they were terminated for not being willing to partake in the "False Advertisements" of the employer.

Prior to commencing court filing, Lorrie and David decided to approach Top Choice Systems, Inc to determine if a settlement could be reached out of court. A settlement offer was made to the Company on September 24 1998. Among other claims the settlement offers made by Lorrie and David included that the following "False Advertisements" were a determining factor in their termination.

  1. The Company operates with a Full T3 connection to the Internet with redundant backups.
    As stated on the companies website and in national magazine advertisments.

    Copy of Sept 98 Advertisement in PCComputing Available For Viewing

  2. The Company currently had 14,463 clients as stated on the companies HomePage.

    Screen Capture of Partial Scroll (13/11/98) on HomePage Available For Viewing

    (As of today 13/11/98 The HomePage states they currently host 15,658 Virtual Domains.)

    Update: If you notice as of today's date, Jan. 18, 1999, TopChoice has the same amount of clients as 13/11/98. Just awhile ago Topchoice was growing in leaps and bounds.

Copy of David's Settlement Offer Available For Viewing
Copy of Lorrie's Settlement Offer Available For Viewing

On September 30 1998 a response to our offers were jointly addressed through Top Choice Systems, Inc.'s legal counsel. The responses to the 2 statements above were as follows with the respective matching numbers.

  1. Our client does have a "T3" connection, but at the moment the "T3" connection is not used to full capacity.

  2. It does have approximately 14,463 web sites, of which approximately 4,000 are occupied.

Copy Of The Initial Reply from Topchoice To Our Settlement Offer

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