These guy reached out to my firm to come setup networking for the whole even......
They reached out 6 months prior, to which I excitedly said "Fuck no".
The government charged 80,000 just to get a basic Coax out to the site, and this was going to have to be a crazy amount of networking equipment. But they wanted us to carry the cost and they would pay later. We are talking about 200k worth of Cisco/Aerohives etc....
Originally Posted by notorious:
I watched the Hulu doc on this during a flight. It was very good, and showed a different perspective of the whole thing.
Watch both. It’s worth it.
Yeah. They got farther into the mechanics of the fraud and essentially this cat was a fucking joke but he sweet talked that blonde trophy wife who wanted to bank roll big dogs like her hubby. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
I’m going to guess it is because McFarland led with the payroll bit.
I know I would have tuned everything out except the FBI shit.
The level of ineptitude was really staggering. Although at this point it shouldn’t be. When I was growing up all I really knew was 1. Sports and 2. Farming. Both of which there is no way to hide performance.
Then I went to college and got exposed to hucksters and bullshitters and the like and really developed a decent eye for bullshit. And the longer I went the more astounded I was by the number of people getting through life without really ever being held accountable for performance. And this I suppose is just an extension of that astonishment journey I’ve been on since I was 19. Even though this idiot did it through straight up, not even creative fraud.
It is amazing once you are out in the real world how many professionals either don't give a damn or are incompetent. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Yeah. They got farther into the mechanics of the fraud and essentially this cat was a ****ing joke but he sweet talked that blonde trophy wife who wanted to bank roll big dogs like her hubby.
The story from one of the workers was that he got off the phone after securing more funding hi-fives him and says “let’s go ride jet ski’s”. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
This is why I don't feel terribly bad for any of the contractors involved in the festival. Those people were complicit. That Yoga guy spends that whole documentary trying to cover himself in glory but in the end - the dude never said "y'know what, screw this..."
Now on the flipside, there's some very very real risk involved there. What if by some unbelievable miracle MacFarland had been able to come across one last investor who chucked $5 million into the thing and allowed a hail mary contractor play and somehow pulled the thing to a disappointing show, but not actionable misconduct?
No our 'principled' Yoga teacher, who said 'fuck this, I'm out', is probably gonna be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for breach of contract.
I mean if you're gonna walk away from something like that, you'd better by God believe you're right. Your best bet in that case would just be loud enough and pissy enough to get yourself canned.
I did feel bad for the Fyre employees who worked on the app development teams, though. I mean what the hell? For those guys, Fyre was the app. That was the whole company. And the party was just a marketing push. They had know way to realize that this failed marketing push would end up blowing apart the whole company. They got proper rogered.
And credit to anybody on any conference call with JaRule for not telling that bumblefuck to sit down and shut up. The amount of self-restraint that must have taken is truly extraordinary.
These guy reached out to my firm to come setup networking for the whole even......
They reached out 6 months prior, to which I excitedly said "Fuck no".
The government charged 80,000 just to get a basic Coax out to the site, and this was going to have to be a crazy amount of networking equipment. But they wanted us to carry the cost and they would pay later. We are talking about 200k worth of Cisco/Aerohives etc....
Yeah dodged a bullet there.
Conventions and other events like that are ALWAYS a bitch. The customer doesn't want to commit to the install because they don't intend on keeping it. Last mile providers are slow as shit to actually put anything in. It's just a shit storm of non-cooperation. We simply don't do them anymore - not worth it at all. [Reply]
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In response, Aviation Chester Cooper, Bahamas Minister of Tourism, said that the country “will not endorse or approve any event in The Bahamas associated with [McFarland]” and that “he is considered to be a fugitive.”
Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic:
How the hell did Billy Mcfarlane convince all those investors to put millions of dollars into that festival? He was 24 year old kid. It looked like a good time when they flew the models in for the promotional shoot.
