Rather than follow our ordinary protocol of reporting the rumours and waiting for the journos to approach the firm for an official comment, a lack of progress with the Deloitte Drug Deals post forced the Firm Spy‘s hand.
Yes, a member of the Firm Spy glitterati placed an anonymous phone call last night to the brusque Deloitte spokeswoman Vessa Playfair.
- Attempt 1 – call terminated;
- Attempt 2 – call terminated;
- Attempt 3 – call answered with the following phrase ‘can you please hold’. Vessa then continued a muted conversation with someone, not waiting for confirmation that we were prepared to hold. But we waited. And waited. After what seemed like an eternity, the Firm Spy then received the blessing of an audience with Ms Playfair.
We asked Vessa if she was able to give the Firm Spy a comment in relation to our story about sackings rumoured to have occurred because several workers used Deloitte communication equipment to organise a drug deal.
Crack out the rack!
Vessa confirmed that she had seen our story but said she would “need to check with the CEO before making any comment… and would email tomorrow”. We then digressed and Vessa confessed that she is obsessed a fan of the Firm Spy – she subscribes to our weekly newsletter!
We checked our inbox last night and true to her word, an email entitled ‘Deloitte Response’ from Vessa awaited. It noted the following:
Unfortunately Deloitte’s response to your query is no comment.
Regardsvessa [sic]
So where does this leave us? Well, there was no request to take out post down, nor a request for any corrections.
Has the Firm Spy just broken its first gossip NEWS story?! You decide.
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Mz Playfair needs to play fair.