He was charged and convicted? I dont even know what Wildy is supposed to have done other than have to downsize his staff.

oh was he? shows how much attention I have paid. I got wind he was unethical and stuff but didn't realise he was actually charged etc.

I can only think of wildy coyote and wildy beast puns. Not much scope for a thread really.

edited due to realizing i was talking smack

I started to do a limerick but couldn't come up with anything that wasn't libellous.

Lordy sorry ! Am on loaner phone and God knows what the person before was typing as the predicted words are all over the show!

They wouldn't want their full details all over the net !

Hunt, punt, munt (er)

well, can a mod please and thankyou edit my comments about wildy? I think RP and IainK have a point.

ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Well, there was that nice poster on here a couple of weeks ago, AwaitingAgent, I think s/he was called. S/he was complaining that ever since another poster on here was laid off by Paul Wildy, s/he couldn't get any replies to her/his questions about what was going on.

Funnily enough, all traces of AwaitingAgent appear to have been purged from the History of British Expats.

All very Orwellian if you ask me.

People on this forum were kinder to Jian Ghomeshi.

Prepared to defend him despite the countless allegations.

We haven't heard all that much about Paul Wildy other than his business has sadly hit hard times and it potentially looks like it currently doesn't scale anymore.

Businesses go bankrupt a lot and often people are left out of pocket.

See how it unfolds though as there doesn't seem to be a victim yet.

If a corporation, this is usually the case, we had a 6 figure loss last year with a customer going bust.

Where the supplier is a partnership or proprietorship, going bust has serious repercussions, as all of their personal assets are on the line, home included.

It seems to me that the idea of a personal consultancy going bankrupt is a bit improbable. I expect the business model is to charge a fee and later remit part of that fee to the government. There should always be positive cash flow. Essentially the business is a person offering a personal service based on his/her reputation. If there's too much work then assistants can be added, if there's too little then they can be dumped, ultimately the consultant can take a day job and carry on part-time.

Of course, anyone can go bust if they try hard enough, but this isn't a captial intensive business and it doesn't depend on a single, or very few, clients. It ought to be safe from anything except the personal vices (if any) of the proprietor.

Hi rivingtonpike.

As it stands the thread isn't breaking any site rules. It is an exchange of opinions about a company & it;s service - good or bad. BE has many such threads scattered about.

Yes. The person(s) in question of course has the right of reply if he chooses.

I would actually take issue with this last point. I don't think it's true to say a consultancy like this isn't necessarily capital intensive. It might not have to buy expensive machinery, but that is only one form of capital investment. Most consultancies are valued on their fee generation, client base, market position and reputation. In order to achieve these consistently and successfully, generally large investment is required in advertising, marketing, trade fairs, seminars, offices, public liability, professional indemnity, software, databases, phone systems, computers, etc etc. Advertising alone - even for a modest consultancy - can run into hundreds of thousands of pounds or dollars a year. You have to attract your fee base - i.e. paying clients/customers/candidates.

It is extremely easy to go bust as a consultancy. I know many many many that have.