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Originally Posted by John Gutmann
Please don't say something like that unless you know 100% everything that has been said between parties.
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Either one of two things could have happened here. Either IFI could be lying(I think not) about them finding out through CD or FIRST did not exactly communicate correctly with IFI. If I were a dedicated vendor to a company for many years, almost since its inception, I'd be very very angry to find out I have been let-go through a PUBLIC channel. Think about it, IFI supplies us with a large portion of electronics and software. This is almost half the robot. Furthermore, is it good that the community has to find out through the vendor that FIRST did not even communicate with them? Where is the gracious professionalism in this? Where is the inspiration in seeing FIRST go-against it's own values? Why should us teams follow these ideals and values when it is not demonstrated by the parent organization? Gracious Professionalism has everything to do with this decision because IFI is that big a part of FIRST. In the past few years so many people I know have been hired by IFI. Obviously, IFI must have faith in FIRST to do something like that. It is also a demonstration of gracious professionalism. While I agree that this is a business, I think FIRST is something more. Why FIRST has to let go IFI is none of my business and I will not speculate. However, I do not see any good reason for them to let go but FIRST might have a good reason. Either way, I think this situation could have been handled a whole lot better. I also hope to find out the full story one day. None of what I mentioned is speculation - it is very factual.