Peace wishers and the others

In the era of narrative stickers, i.e. at the time of writing this post, it was not possible to find the meaning of the word "chcismír" on the web or on Wikipedia. That's why I used a very similar word - both visually and in meaning. It is known to everyone chcimír in the definition here, according to which this is a person who proposes to solve Russian aggression by having the West stop helping Ukraine. Howgh.

I will not and do not want to comment on this black and white vision of the world. It doesn't belong to me. Since I am not a political entomologist who would be able to determine, without extensive historical research, who is the "Russian cockroach" and who is the "American beetle" in this armed struggle. But since I'm afraid to publicly comment on this "sloppy" definition and on such a massively used label in this difficult time, and I don't want to end up somewhere "hidden" in KRIT, I will focus in this post on my own definition of the second, so similar in meaning, but which has not yet been sufficiently published and unsullied, namely the word "chcismír".

By definition, it is peace in civil court proceedings the agreement between the disputing parties, which will be approved at their request court and which thereby obtains the effects of a final judgment. It can be approved in a preliminary conciliation procedure, then it is a so-called praetorian conciliation, or already in the initiated court proceedings as a so-called court settlement , which will replace the court's decision on the matter. Both these types of reconciliation are the same in nature.

So let's put the events related to our search for peace in a more precise time frame and, as is customary in every good story, let's name the people and their cast at the time. Many of them are already notoriously known to you from previous posts, some of them only flashed in them and did not leave any deeper traces here due to their insignificance.

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For Radio ГA / ГA, more precisely for its initial version 1.0, it was always a priority not to judge employees. As a "non-profitable" organisational component of a "non-profitable" company of a foreign state, doing business in local meadows and groves and boasting the deep moral legacy of Václav Havel, it was somehow unthinkable to get involved with "native" employees. The illusion was created that all employees belong together for one common goal of spreading democracy and the right worldview, regardless of the color of their passports or their position in the company's food chain. At that time, it was not at all strange that groups of "superhumans and subhumans" met after work in offices, common areas, or just for a cigarette or a drink in the main glass building, in smoking rooms, or in nearby pubs. Sometimes it creaked somewhere. Of course. But it always tried to solve it without washing dirty laundry in public and without dragging it out in competing media.

A certain exception were the events connected with the court battles of my two former foreign colleagues, which were written about in detail in the local newspapers at the time.

Their legal battle occupied various levels of the local courts for several years, and several domestic politicians tried to cook their own disgusting soup from these ingredients. A little of their story was published on the blog here in the post "I will make you unemployed".

Making the unemployed an employee on a foreign employment contract, not based on local legislation, without the protection of Czech labor law, and which had to be signed by him or her before he or she started, was one thing. However, getting rid of indigenous employees, working under the protection of the local Labor Code, was already "another cafe.

After the transformation of Radio ГA / ГA, especially after its upgrade to version 2.0, dating back to 2012-2014, a "new era" began in the local backyard. We covered this period in more detail in the post How to become persona non-grata”.

The foundations of this new "cooperative type" company model were successfully laid by the trio of Steve Korn, Dale Cohen and Donna Black. This then "top", along with a mix of other lower managers, sensing their new opportunity, began to put their ideas into practice. Due to the screeching and resistance not only of Czech employees, due to the massive use of pre-November totalitarian practices, a new class of "brown-nosed" helpers was born.

Even though the famous trio earned a red card from their Washington puppeteers after months of devastation in corporate relations and "at their own request out of grief for their families" returned behind the big puddle, the company with new fresh faces #KF ( "Kristina Fšetko"), #LA ("Dr. Leklá Andělka") and later with "downsizing specialists" of the type #MS ("Mr. Sushi"), continued the preset trajectory of building power.

On these solid foundations, machinery was gradually built by those willing persons, which, with the help of an external law firm, in my case the lawyer #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko"), financed with the money of the American taxpayer #UTP ("US Tax Payer") and #USAGM ("US Global Media") and with the help of a long-time cooperating "independent judge" of the district court #JH ("Dr. Hustá"), began to apply a "fire policy" to its own employees according to established pre-November templates. You can read more about these practices here “How do we do it? According to the template!”.

The fact that I was not the only one who felt and still feels this way can be found on the publicly available website ATMOSKOP here.

Especially this post is like a photocopier of the experiences I experienced here myself (free translation from English below).

​“People are nothing here. They can tell you that "as of today you are no longer working here, we have already blocked you from logging in, pack your things". The contract makes it possible to deal with people in this way. No communication, no feedback. Just in the last year they quit an architect and some senior developers... when they saw this other left company, recently a person who worked for 20 years left without any explanation, you don't even have a chance to write something to your colleagues: it's literally, your account is locked, you have one hour to collect your things or we will call our security and they will throw you out. No communication, no growth, no adequate management in the IT department.”

I can sign this opinion of an unknown contemporary at any time!

It is comical how the HR department here is trying to improve the poor evaluation of employees and push the reputation of Radio ГА / ГA into black numbers by publishing their anonymous posts. After all, it's their job, for which they should be given a standing ovation. Such typical propaganda 😉

Most employees affected in this way usually give up after the second point of the above template and clear the unpleasant legal battlefield due to legal superiority.

But there are also those who ended their fight with this superiority in peace, or even with a court win.

Especially the last case, which I will inform you about in one of the next posts, in many ways gave us hope for success even in this unequal struggle of ours.

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1. The first attempt before the prosecution

It was February 2020 and I had just been "pumped". I was preparing a response to the dismissal and that's when I first confided to that select group that I don't like it and that I'm determined to sue Radio ГA / ГA.

At the time I thought I was "a real freak at this act". I later found out that my former colleague from the "Persian service" had overtaken me several months earlier, who, by the way, had successfully brought his case to the Constitutional Court in recent weeks.

After the initial scare (at least that's what I thought at the time) things started to happen!

At first, #MS ("Mr. Sushi") reacted to my proposal for reconciliation with a gangster question - "so how much?" and that he would then push my proposal further. It seemed strange to me, so according to the well-known saying "don't go to the blacksmith, go straight to the blacksmith", I asked for a meeting with someone who can decide on the matter. I thought that the "blacksmith" was #KF ("Kristina Fšetko"), after all, she signed a "letter and recommendation for the Labour Office". And so I explained my request to him.

The deadline was set for February 17, 2020, and for Radio ГA / ГA, a group of parliamentarians consisting of #LA ("Dr. Leklá Andělka"), #MS ("Mr. Sushi") and, just in case, were to look at my requests that I would accidentally start talking nonsense and insist, the team was strengthened by the superior of my then closest superior #RC ("Remotely Controlled"). I didn't like the fact that the conciliation was perceived as a 3:1 "knee-jerk" by them, so I suggested that in that case my legal representative would also participate.

The date has been set and agreed upon.

We didn't meet. Shortly before the meeting, I found out that my supervisor #RC ("Remotely Controlled") broke into my computer and read all the communications between me and my legal representative, between me and my family, the treating doctor and the employment agencies. You can read about what probably led him to this in the article Desperate people do desperate things.

This was followed by me filing a criminal complaint against this his illegal action, and since this self-proclaimed group of parliamentarians duly trivialized the whole thing and even justified his actions by striving "to spread goodness and democracy in the world", we unilaterally ended our participation in this "meeting" . The only satisfaction for us was that the "Police of the Czech Republic" and later the "Labor Inspectorate" described such behaviour of my superior as illegal and that this "American action hero" was forced to fly away to follow his friends behind a big puddle.

2. First attempt after prosecution

In June 2020, we were invited by Judge #JH ("Dr. Hustá") to appear in court and, in the form of a petition, tell her exactly what we expect from our two filed lawsuits. In persuading that the anti-discrimination lawsuit is unnecessary and that it is pointless to rely on the success of the first one on the invalidity of the termination, we were "politically indicated" that our efforts will be for many years and that it is not excluded that "we are bleeding financially".

Unkissed by the local district court, we finally did not give in and resolutely started the fight. We concluded that as a sign of good will on the part of the defendant, a few months' salary would be enough for the first lawsuit (as is the custom in this region anyway) and for the second, just a well-meaning and heartfelt apology .

She carefully wrote it down in her notes and subsequently dismissed us "with God".

A small flaw in the beauty was that there is no audio recording of this almost two-hour long "talking" with us and there were only a recording of two sentences, visibly created "ex-post". Supposedly no recording equipment was installed in the courtroom at that time.

You can read more about this first encounter with justice in the article How to clean clean to clean".

3. Second attempt after prosecution

It was the first days of 2021 and my legal representation in the form of my sister met the opposite party for the first time. Since I already had to "earn my daily bread" on the afternoon shift of a certain unnamed company, I did not participate in the meeting and only watched it from a distance. At that time, equipped with jointly agreed "notes" and with my power of attorney, she arrived at the court, where she met #MV ("Mgr. Piggy") "face to face" for the first time.

As it emerged from the audio recording, which always manages to raise my adrenaline and pressure, it was not an easy decision.

Judge #JH ("Dr. Hustá") pushed for both sides to express what would satisfy them as a result of the settlement. We have prepared our proposal in three variants. The opposing party, although equipped with a power of attorney to conclude a settlement, was unable to comment on the spot. He says he will need the client's approval, which he cannot arrange immediately over the phone.

In the end, the lawyer took 5 days and said he would call as far away as Washington. He responded to the argument that if they were firing me, they didn't need Washington's approval the remaining silent and repeating his demand for an adjournment persisted.

Within a week, we had a reply in our inbox with a raised intermediary finger and, of course, no counter-proposal.

In the end, all our other peace negotiations were carried out in a similar spirit. Perhaps with a small variation - this time the judge was also joining in with ideas. The article “How long does it take, doctor?”.

The legal department of Radio ГA / ГA started playing for time and our nerves, and our mediation trip to Brno was approaching.

Simply - you won't make me sad with a promise!

4. Attempting a Mediator

The trip to Brno in terms of the mediation settlement of our legal disputes ended ingloriously.

One would even like to say that it was a waste of time. And was it really?

On the other hand, we finally found out, (in)directly from the mouths of both parliamentarians #LA ("Dr. Leklá Andělka") and #MV (Mgr. Prasátko"), after their long argument in the corridor of the local mediation office, that my employee "bye bye" was not so much the result of an attack of the Russian hacker group STRONTIUM activities on the poor mailboxes of the local "tops", but rather as an effort on their part to perceive the whole thing as long-planned organisational changes in local IT.

Hence the 3 salaries (after 15 years of exemplary work for the company, I add).

In short - the comrade has been angry for a long time with his opinions.

As another significant bonus, we took home with lessons on how to properly wear a face mask and what is and is not decent behaviour from this "alternative city", as Brno has been called lately.

We understandably rejected their proposed "what we are - we are" in the form of 3 salaries, strictly in line with the Labor Code, with "thanks for the donations". You can read about how it all happened here “How long does it take, doctor?”.

5. Attempt using judicial

The year 2021 was filled with court cases in the matter of both our lawsuits, and since we still did not give up hope of our success in them, even the long-time contract judge of Radio ГA / ГA #JH ("Dr . Hustá”).

Here I would like to particularly appreciate her efforts to progress in these court proceedings by even trying to increase the original proposal of the opposing party from 3 to 5 salaries in one of the pending lawsuits. On the one hand, the "Civil and Judicial Code" basically imposes it on her. On the other hand, we understood her. After the experience, when we strictly demanded compliance with OSŘ from the leadership of her senate, neither she nor her superior wanted anything to do with us anymore.

Her proposal thus fit into the tense atmosphere of that court hearing.

Our argument was that we would rather accept any proposals from the legal representation present Radio ГA / ГA. Experience has told us that the legal representative, although he was and still is the holder of the authorisation to negotiate with us about reconciliation, was not and is not willing to do so from the beginning.

6. An attempt ala "what do you think, Mr. President"?

With our deep experiences from the course of mediation and from the background of negotiations with the representatives of the defendant Radio ГA / ГA, we wanted to share them with their newly changed corporate "top".

In my bilingual open letter, addressed on March 8, 2022, to selected persons from the company's management, I tried to summarise the findings and the resulting oddities surrounding my resignation.

On concrete facts and evidence, I tried to point out that I know much more about the background of the whole incident and that I am ready to inform their breadwinners, controllers and donors about it (USAGM, USAGM Watch and OIG).

My idea that, based on the information published in the email, they would thank me, take me by the shoulders, and finally invite me to their "corporate fortress" to explain and provide details, soon took hold. Although he still brags about this in his company's moral and ethical code, published at "all possible stations" and described in details in one of the previous articles The real Mirek Dušín, our reality was rather the opposite.

Obviously, after the initial horror of what the "worm and subspecies" had allowed themselves to do, and after several weeks of their breathing, when I already thought that I, as the sender of this email, had been "democratically blocked" again, only a short reply from the head of HR landed in my email.

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“Dear Sir,

Please accept this email on behalf of the management of the company, confirming the receipt of your email dated March 8, 2022. As you know, our company is represented by lawyers due to the current legal proceedings. For this reason, we will not engage in personal communication with you beyond the scope of our response to this email of yours, which we consider to be the baseless accusations you make in your letter. Any further questions or comments should be directed to our lawyers.

Regards

Your Manana”

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Let's stop and think briefly about the text of this answer.

Radio ГA / ГA is represented against me by a prominent law firm and in my case by attorney #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko"). And that's a fact. It chose it for the field of labor law according to their assessment as "recommended law firm for the field of labor law". That's also a fact. Just as it was chosen by other important Czech companies – JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS CZ, ŠKODA TRANSPORTATION, ING BANK, ČESKÉ AEROLINIE, F.X.MEILER Slaný and others. It's also a fact. And it seems - Radio ГA / ГA is in good company here. That's also a fact. It is also an understandable fact that these important corporations, often with foreign financial participation, want to have success in court for their considerable records.

However, I am not sure if a society, proudly advocating democratic values and traditions, powerfully waving a patent for spreading its concept of good in the world, with a historically declared specialisation in the field of human rights compliance, is globally, is willing to trade her 70-year tradition and existential reputation for something as down-to-earth as a court victory in a legal battle between a seasoned specialist lawyer who represents it and a former employee, a self-taught lawyer? And that even at the price of washing dirty laundry in the form of information about violations of Czech laws and principles, not to mention those that it advertises on each of its web pages?

You can probably understand that I was surprised by their answer.

I did not plan to continue hearing and explaining my findings at their law firm, so after their answer I focused more on preparing my appeals at the Prague Municipal Court. I foolishly believed that my original activity with the request for a hearing would not lead to any further legal conflicts.

However, other events were to confirm to me how deeply I was wrong.

Unbeknownst to me, another "unknown" namesake of mine had already started working on my reputation at this time, which was to portray me as untrustworthy and properly perverted in further court appeal battles.

As posted in one of our previous posts titled Simulakrum , I started doing harm on the "network of all networks", thanks to the lent publicity of the president of the court #RV ("Dr. Veverička"), as an alleged spreader of chain mails and, in fact, today also as a disinformator.

And in order to understand who is really here with the right worldview, the Radio ГA / ГA pissed me off with their advertised law firm "#MV ("Mgr. Prasátko") & Partners" with their "muzzle lawsuit".

This time they sent it against me.

And in order not to panic, in the form of a "preliminary measure", aka a judicial "preliminary", in other words - about me without me.

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A preliminary measure consists in the fact that the court orders a party to the proceedings, or even a third party not involved, to do something, abstain from something or endure something. If conditions change after its order, the court can change or cancel them, but always such a preliminary measure automatically expires on the day it becomes decision the court in the matter executable. “

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In layman's terms - keep silent, or...

But more on that in one of the next posts. I'm really looking forward to it!

7. Try with your attorney

In order to silence the last smoldering feeling that I did not do everything for peace between me and Radio ГA / ГA as a true "chci$mír", I asked in Slovakia, where I am in the meantime obtained citizenship and where I planned to move, a purebred Slovak lawyer to represent me in my quest for my "$peace on earth". After our mutual signing of the power of attorney, the lawyer - a typical representative of an older law school - contacted the lawyer of the opposing party #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko") with a request for a meeting and a request for cooperation.

Unfortunately, none of them happened, so this our latest effort ended in failure even before it started.

The lack of interest in a personal meeting with him and the behaviour of the Radio ГA / ГA attorney in the style - "we will get everything" and "you will be happy for nothing at all" I finally ended all activities on his recommendation.

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He was a lawyer.

Without giving me false, well-paid hopes, he realistically suggested to terminate the contract and thus it will be not extra more money from me.

He said it makes no sense and that they are not about peace or reconciliation.

Would anyone else come to the same conclusion?

But more on that next time.