The Future of Linux Belongs to You!

[Matthew G. Copple, LCA, MCP]

> What is the official story on Linuxgruven?

Here's the short story:

Linuxgruven trained bunches and bunches of people while promising them jobs.
As each student achieved his/her LCA, he or she went to work for
Linuxgruven. Unfortunately, after employing the first few students as
teachers and test admins, there was nothing for the rest of us to do except
sit around and twiddle our thumbs.

Linuxgruven's management and ownership were incompetent, to say the very
least. They did not actively pursue any contracts, new enrollments began to
dry up and former students were beginning to achieve the LCA in droves. As a
result of gross mismanagement and simple economics, Linuxgruven ran out of
money the first week of March and closed its doors on March 12. To add
insult to injury, most of the employees of Linuxgruven discovered, much to
their chagrin, that the paychecks issued on March 2 bounced, and none of us
received pay for our last two weeks of work.

Linuxgruven appears to be attempting to get clients again. The former
executive management of Linuxgruven appears to be trying to form their own
company. And the 150 or so former employees of the company are finding other
employment.

We came, we saw, we got royally screwed.

Matthew Copple
direwolf at kc.rr.com