Crime & Punishment

Reputation is everything, I often get people asking about mercs and who they should hire for specific jobs, and I have advised Noir for certain jobs to people, following on from this I won't be advising Noir to any of my contacts.

Stepping back and looking at this objectively the question has to be why didn't you check back with Gevlon Goblin about whether he would be happy with you taking the contract for the Goons, yet you asked the Goons about Gevlons contract. From that the obvious bias against Gevlon Goblin is very evident, you knew that he would not have accepted that. You also realised that the Goons would find it hilariously funny that you were doing this and that it would annoy Gevlon Goblin immensely, what amazes me is that Goblin was already a client with you and had paid you on prior jobs and yet you do that to a returning customer, who should have expected you to act with honor around your contract. In business I often found the biggest scoundrels hid behind small print, being professional means looking after your client, not taking total advantage of your client using the nuances of the contract.

There are times that people can be too smart for their own good, this is one of them and every reply I have seen from Noir makes them look even worse, best thing you should do is stand up, say that this was actually not a clever thing to do, apologise to Gevlon Goblin publicly, and adjust your approach so that you never take a contract with the opposition, you should have advised him that you were going to have a contract with the Goons and refused his contract, simple as!

At the end of the day no ***** were given. Agree or disagree, things are being perceived differently by everyone. Both sides feel slighted and a bunch of random people stating that they won't hire us in the future won't change anything. Guess what? You guys werent going to hire use anyways so it doesnt matter. In fact, we're still fulfilling contracts even after this "incident". All involviing happy clients.

Noir has been completing contracts for years and it will continue to complete contracts.

I'll just leave this here.

Lol
Hope you run your POCO's better than you were being mercenaries. Good luck with your new venture :)

I am still confused how there is supposed to be a "backlash" by "the majority of players" or whatever, if it's mostly a handful of people affiliated with, or outright pets of Gevlon posting against Noir.

I'd just call that a smear campaign, speaking as an observer. And a rather half assed one at that.

TLDR:

Gevlon hires Noir to shoot Goons.
Noir shoots Gevlon while he is shooting goons. 4 ships, 1 pod.

Noir is ok with this.

Let all future employers of Noir beware

If you're going to do a TLDR post at least do it right.

Upz!

Alek, really?
U should have known better, karma is a ***** right?
Too bad you arent a mod on MERC Contracts anymore, you would have delisted yourself. (you dont have time for this drama)

This is my main, I am not a follower of Gevlon Goblin, you are of course trying to smear those that have come on here to suggest that Noir has seriously damaged their reputation with this ill considered act, the issue is very simply that you should have informed Gevlon Goblin of the fact that you had a contract that would conflict with his contract, not of course in terms of the fine print which you seem to be hiding behind, but in terms of a simple conflict of interest, you applied that courtesy to the Goons, but not to him. While many can of course see that in terms of the fine print you did what you said you would, in terms of reputation as trusted mercs you did not.

As I said earlier, I had put people your way, in the end I am of course not sure how many actually used your services, but that hardly matters, Noir has lost a lot of trust and respect, I recommended Noir because I thought that you were trustworthy, that is no longer my perception and the perception of many others, and you can blather on about army of alts and smears, but that just makes you look even more foolish, its sad to see how far you guys have fallen .

I'm not. I'm not affiliated with them, aside from intermittent hostilities on another character.

This just seems like "doth protest too much" on Goblin's part. Especially with the "20 billion isk spite bounty". Looks like a smokescreen to me.

What can I say about NOIR.

Consistent, intelligent, trustworthy.

Just a great continuation of an already solid relationship.

+1 would hire again.