Former Vodacom senior accountant drops Please Call Me bombshells

[Bradley Prior]

Former Vodacom senior accountant drops Please Call Me bombshells

Court papers filed by a former Vodacom employee claim that Vodacom should easily be able to calculate the revenue it earned from the Please Call Me service.

 

[Gazg]

Lol.......has he been 'captured' as well.

 

[Sinbad]

So what if they can calculate it? I should hope so. It's really piss poor accounting if you can't work out revenue streams per product.

If this is about that makata clown though - it's irrelevant. He didn't invent it. He didn't patent it. He didn't implement it. Why should he benefit from it?

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Vodacom likes to claim "inability" as an excuse. Like OOB, they were unable to change their software, to stop people to go into OOB.

 

[grok]

Vodacom likes to claim "inability" as an excuse. Like OOB, they were unable to change their software, to stop people to go into OOB.

So what if they can calculate it? I should hope so. It's really piss poor accounting if you can't work out revenue streams per product.

If this is about that makata clown though - it's irrelevant. He didn't invent it. He didn't patent it. He didn't implement it. Why should he benefit from it?

VC already paid him, so unless VC is of habit to randomly dish out millions to random people, he is definitely relevant as the recipeint of R45mil which was admission of money owed.
This is now about how that amount was calculated, and if Vodacom lied it is just fair that it be challenged.

I'm not on Makata's side, but a company like VC unable to determine the revenue from pcm's? Come on, pull the other one..

 

[Swa]

So what if they can calculate it? I should hope so. It's really piss poor accounting if you can't work out revenue streams per product.

If this is about that makata clown though - it's irrelevant. He didn't invent it. He didn't patent it. He didn't implement it. Why should he benefit from it?

And that as you say is... irrelevant.

 

[j4ck455]

Motaung said that while the spreadsheets were too comprehensive to attach to his affidavit, he could provide these spreadsheets if the court specifically requested it.

Irrespective of what Motaung claims to be able to prove, I am wondering why a former Vodacom employee still has confidential Vodacom financial data in his possession.

Did Vodacom give him permission to retain such data after he resigned?
Did he specifically choose to retain this data in the hopes of getting a share of whatever Makate eventually gets from Vodacom?

 

[RandomGeek]

This Please Call Me saga is like herpes - it just never goes away...

 

[azbob]

So what if they can calculate it? I should hope so. It's really piss poor accounting if you can't work out revenue streams per product.

If this is about that makata clown though - it's irrelevant. He didn't invent it. He didn't patent it. He didn't implement it. Why should he benefit from it?

Because he was promised he would be. Regardless of any of that. We need to honour our word.

 

[Bruce Banner]

This Makete is just plain an idot , take the 47mil and go , but i guess his greedy attorneys are pushing for a bigger payday

 

[IssiAmd]

So what if they can calculate it? I should hope so. It's really piss poor accounting if you can't work out revenue streams per product.

If this is about that makata clown though - it's irrelevant. He didn't invent it. He didn't patent it. He didn't implement it. Why should he benefit from it?

Personally I don't find it surprising at all.
I've been billed incorrectly on several occasions not to mention the disappearing data thing.
I wonder how many unsuspecting souls are being swindled on a regular basis.

I wouldn't mind seeing Mr Makate get his big payday. Rather him than Vodacom.
Also find it fascinating that Makate has made it this far against a corporate giant like Vodacom.

 

[IssiAmd]

This Makete is just plain an idot , take the 47mil and go , but i guess his greedy attorneys are pushing for a bigger payday

The merits of the case need to be looked at.
If the courts determine he should be compensated they need to advise how such compensation will be calculated.
Depending on the method of calculation R47m may be far less than what he deserves, as Makate claims or even a lot more.

So you can't just say hey R47m is huge amount the guy should take it and be happy.

 

[Nemesys]

In my opinion not every PCM send generate income, but every PCM sent will generate cost. I have received a few PCM's of which only a few were from a Vodacom number lots from MTN and Cell C numbers though. The only ones I ever returned were from my Grand Children and one or two from my Gardener.
I cannot for the life of me see how it would be possible to calculate the revenue generate by the PCM system. Judging form the number of PCM i received so far Vodacom would have lost money rather than gained any.
This is more a case of someone giving him the wrong advice and creating the expectation of immeasurable riches.
He would be far better offer take the offer and enjoy the rest of his life.

 

[Sinbad]

In my opinion not every PCM send generate income, but every PCM sent will generate cost. I have received a few PCM's of which only a few were from a Vodacom number lots from MTN and Cell C numbers though. The only ones I ever returned were from my Grand Children and one or two from my Gardener.
I cannot for the life of me see how it would be possible to calculate the revenue generate by the PCM system. Judging form the number of PCM i received so far Vodacom would have lost money rather than gained any.
This is more a case of someone giving him the wrong advice and creating the expectation of immeasurable riches.
He would be far better offer take the offer and enjoy the rest of his life.

The revenue comes from the advertising.

 

[We Love Bass]

Vodascum must pay! fight for what is yours boet

 

[RandomGeek]

Irrespective of what Motaung claims to be able to prove, I am wondering why a former Vodacom employee still has confidential Vodacom financial data in his possession.

Did Vodacom give him permission to retain such data after he resigned?
Did he specifically choose to retain this data in the hopes of getting a share of whatever Makate eventually gets from Vodacom?

Well spotted! Such data is typically considered the property of the employer and should not be with an ex-employee. He/she may have opened up him/her to some legal action

 

[We Love Bass]

So what if they can calculate it? I should hope so. It's really piss poor accounting if you can't work out revenue streams per product.

If this is about that makata clown though - it's irrelevant. He didn't invent it. He didn't patent it. He didn't implement it. Why should he benefit from it?

Who invented it? tell us.

 

[quovadis]

I cannot for the life of me see how it would be possible to calculate the revenue generate by the PCM system.

If they have records of the PCM's sent and calls received it would be easy to calculate the number of inbound calls and revenue generated from the recipient of the PCM which were made within a reasonable amount of time from when the PCM was sent.

 

[Sinbad]

Who invented it? tell us.

MTN patented it. Ari Kahn I believe.

 

[RandomGeek]

MTN patented it. Ari Kahn I believe.

No man it was invented by Alan Knott-Craig. he even wrote about it in his book