Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicine?

[makapaaa]

Media agency Ate Group founded by Aun Koh, son of Professor Tommy Koh is suing three ex-staff for allegedly setting up a rival agency and poaching clients from Ate while under its employment.

Ate’s clients have included Jamie’s Italian Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board, MasterCard, DBS Bank, National Heritage Board, Unilever Food Solutions, Louis Vuitton and The Peninsula Hotels Group.

Ate was founded in 2006 by Aun Koh, son of celebrated Singaporean lawyer and diplomat Professor Tommy Koh, and his wife. Koh no longer has an operational role at Ate, but remains a partner in the business.

In a long post on his Facebook page, Koh wrote:

Aun Koh

I have been completely disgusted by the unprofessional and possibly criminal actions by three former employees (coincidentally, all foreigners).

From what I have been told, these three, over a period of time and while actually under our employment, allegedly worked to divert business away from us and to their new agency.

Allegedly, they lied to my business partners, misrepresented our agency, and even lied to clients.

Allegedly, they were, while still drawing salaries from us, selling their own services and poaching Ate’s clients.

Now, I have no problem with competition. And as I said, I’m happy to see my ex-colleagues succeed. But there are certain moral codes that people and professionals should adhere to.

These three, in my personal opinion, have demonstrated a complete lack of integrity and professionalism. To me, they have lost any kind of credibility not only as professionals but human beings.

I am actually shocked that some of our clients signed up with their new firm and am simply hoping they were misled, as opposed to actually supporting this behaviour.

It actually saddens me that in order to seek justice my partners are pursuing both legal and criminal action against these people. I don’t understand why three supposedly intelligent people couldn’t wait until they no longer worked for us to pursue new business.

Why do something so obviously wrong? Why not part ways on good terms and compete then? There’s surely enough business out there for many, many communications companies?

What also saddens me about this incident is that I was always a huge supported of foreign (white collar) labor here in Singapore. While I know these people are surely not indicative of a huge population of expatriates, it does make me rethink whether or not these new arrivals are really grateful for the opportunities they are being given here or are they all just so self-centered that they don’t care about things like professionalism, integrity or even right and wrong.

I won’t be naming these people here. I’m not that stupid or petty. But friends from various sectors can guess who they are. And I hope these friends won’t give these people or their business the time of day.

How FTs responded to his comments? read here
http://mumbrella.asia/2013/10/ate-threatens-legal-action-against-former-staff-client-poaching/

 

[songsongjurong]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

we need more casualties & major collateral damage to the elite.

 

[Geminipegasus]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

we need more casualties & major collateral damage to the elite.

The BIG one will be when PM Lee find himself being replaced by a foreign born minister, then he would not even be quoted saying what this junior Koh is saying about ungrateful foreigners, because he will be totally nullified by the foreign talents. One will not feel pain until the needle has pierced his flesh is so apt here.
Junior Koh says he is not so stupid but I think he is, how else to explain his great support for foreign talent when so many Singaporeans have been warning against and fell on his deaf ears for decades?

There is no cure for stupidity; and its FOREVER .....

 

[Devil Within]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

We need more of these type of foreign talents to screw local operating firms and the PAP.

 

[Dreamer1]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

Hahaha,Ang Mohs are complaining that Koh's son is racist which may not be true,although his dear Dad,Tommy is an obvious racist praising the Chinese race day in and day out with MM LKY.Retribution?NO,koh's son has nothing to do with his racist father,but the cunning Ang Mohs who the Lees love can surely play him well,ask your dad to talk to LKY lah,no point talking to facebook crowd
One Joker says - Koh -"all of whom were identified as “foreigners”
"Why does this matter? Why does it even need a mention? It’s irrelevant. Anyone is capable of poaching clients (whether right or wrong) but their race shouldn’t come into it." - I do agree.

Ah Koh,take your battle to PAP and fuck them for discrimination against its own citizens-a world record, you will get lots of support.

 

[Geminipegasus]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

Hahaha,Ang Mohs are complaining that Koh's son is racist
One Joker says - Koh -"all of whom were identified as “foreigners”
"Why does this matter? Why does it even need a mention? It’s irrelevant. Anyone is capable of poaching clients (whether right or wrong) but their race shouldn’t come into it." - I do agree.

Ah Koh,take your battle to PAP and fuck them for discrimination against its own citizens-a world record, you will get lots of support.

First they came for the cleaners, Koh did not help, he is not a cleaner.
Then they came for the waiters, nope he is not a waiter.
Then they came for the PMETs, his support for white collar foreign talent is strong.
Now they come for him, why should we care? We are not him.
Finally they will come for our leaders, should we care?

 

[Leongsam]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

My ex colleague set up a company and hired some Singaporeans to work for him. This was back in the mid 80s when foreigners were hard to come by.

Guess what.. they screwed him in exactly the same manner and he lost more than $200,000 worth of turnover which was a lot of money at the time.

When it comes to crooks, Singapore has plenty of their own.

 

[Dreamer1]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

First they came for the cleaners, Koh did not help, he is not a cleaner.
Then they came for the waiters, nope he is not a waiter.
Then they came for the PMETs, his support for white collar foreign talent is strong.
Now they come for him, why should we care? We are not him.
Finally they will come for our leaders, should we care?

Ah Koh is not a cleaner but Dad did help LKY to clean all his shits in UN.Still,I will care if Ah Koh gets his target right this time,which is unlikely.

 

[Dreamer1]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

My ex colleague set up a company and hired some Singaporeans to work for him. This was back in the mid 80s when foreigners were hard to come by.


Who is The master of all crooks in Singapore ?
Question:who is Master of all crooks in the world?

 

[jw5]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

What also saddens me about this incident is that I was always a huge supported of foreign (white collar) labor here in Singapore. While I know these people are surely not indicative of a huge population of expatriates, it does make me rethink whether or not these new arrivals are really grateful for the opportunities they are being given here or are they all just so self-centered that they don’t care about things like professionalism, integrity or even right and wrong.

Only when personally affected, then realises. Sad..................................... :(

 

[Gostan]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

Who did he vote for?

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

First they came for the cleaners, Koh did not help, he is not a cleaner.
Then they came for the waiters, nope he is not a waiter.
Then they came for the PMETs, his support for white collar foreign talent is strong.
Now they come for him, why should we care? We are not him.
Finally they will come for our leaders, should we care?

Well said.
Haha who gives a fuck about Aun Koh?
Fucktard was into drugs growing up in the US....he was the reason daddy moved the family back to sinkieland.

 

[zeddy]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

Father as the old PAP dog done many shit to S'poreans.. Now his son is paying the price for his father's past deeds..

BTW what the fuck is the name Aun?

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

Crooks like u? U r 1 step up as u r an asshole n u offer yrs to the pap dogs.

My ex colleague set up a company and hired some Singaporeans to work for him. This was back in the mid 80s when foreigners were hard to come by.

Guess what.. they screwed him in exactly the same manner and he lost more than $200,000 worth of turnover which was a lot of money at the time.

When it comes to crooks, Singapore has plenty of their own.

 

[johnny333]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

My ex colleague set up a company and hired some Singaporeans to work for him. This was back in the mid 80s when foreigners were hard to come by.

Guess what.. they screwed him in exactly the same manner and he lost more than $200,000 worth of turnover which was a lot of money at the time.

When it comes to crooks, Singapore has plenty of their own.

Maybe it's a case of "birds of a feather stick together" or that your colleague picked the wrong people. Just look at how Sporeans were fooled by the last leaf

The same thing could have happened even if he had hired foreigners, right

 

[Debonerman]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

Father as the old PAP dog done many shit to S'poreans.. Now his son is paying the price for his father's past deeds..

BTW what the fuck is the name Aun?

A Unique Name.

 

[palden]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

Will he make a public apology over his remarks or waiting for two old men to talk and his old man to apologies?

Media agency Ate Group founded by Aun Koh, son of Professor Tommy Koh is suing three ex-staff for allegedly setting up a rival agency and poaching clients from Ate while under its employment.

Ate’s clients have included Jamie’s Italian Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board, MasterCard, DBS Bank, National Heritage Board, Unilever Food Solutions, Louis Vuitton and The Peninsula Hotels Group.

Ate was founded in 2006 by Aun Koh, son of celebrated Singaporean lawyer and diplomat Professor Tommy Koh, and his wife. Koh no longer has an operational role at Ate, but remains a partner in the business.

In a long post on his Facebook page, Koh wrote:

Aun Koh

I have been completely disgusted by the unprofessional and possibly criminal actions by three former employees (coincidentally, all foreigners).

From what I have been told, these three, over a period of time and while actually under our employment, allegedly worked to divert business away from us and to their new agency.

Allegedly, they lied to my business partners, misrepresented our agency, and even lied to clients.

Allegedly, they were, while still drawing salaries from us, selling their own services and poaching Ate’s clients.

Now, I have no problem with competition. And as I said, I’m happy to see my ex-colleagues succeed. But there are certain moral codes that people and professionals should adhere to.

These three, in my personal opinion, have demonstrated a complete lack of integrity and professionalism. To me, they have lost any kind of credibility not only as professionals but human beings.

I am actually shocked that some of our clients signed up with their new firm and am simply hoping they were misled, as opposed to actually supporting this behaviour.

It actually saddens me that in order to seek justice my partners are pursuing both legal and criminal action against these people. I don’t understand why three supposedly intelligent people couldn’t wait until they no longer worked for us to pursue new business.

Why do something so obviously wrong? Why not part ways on good terms and compete then? There’s surely enough business out there for many, many communications companies?

What also saddens me about this incident is that I was always a huge supported of foreign (white collar) labor here in Singapore. While I know these people are surely not indicative of a huge population of expatriates, it does make me rethink whether or not these new arrivals are really grateful for the opportunities they are being given here or are they all just so self-centered that they don’t care about things like professionalism, integrity or even right and wrong.

I won’t be naming these people here. I’m not that stupid or petty. But friends from various sectors can guess who they are. And I hope these friends won’t give these people or their business the time of day.

How FTs responded to his comments? read here
http://mumbrella.asia/2013/10/ate-threatens-legal-action-against-former-staff-client-poaching/

 

[palden]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

Only FTs got balls to snatch biz. Sinkees are ball less.

 

[borom]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

The FT's are merely doing LKY's bidding as spurs into the hides of singaporeans- no different from the Pinoy from Seagate .

 

[soIsee]

Re: Professor Tommy Koh's son upsets over FT employees betrayal. Taste of Own Medicin

The more interesting thing ppl should ask here and plse don't start the childish agrument about who is FT or not is, would this Tommy son of a gun ( there is really a gun called Tommy gun you know favored by the Mafia) dared sue these FTs in foreign soil if the FTs had screwed him if his company was in foreign soil.

My guess is ...NO.

And the reasons are for all of you to debate. But since ppl here are ' largely intelligent' saved for a few screwed up ones, you guys will come to the SAME conclusion.