The horror story I am about to share with you is so borderline insane…

I almost thought about not sharing it…

BUT…

I’m gonna do it anyway 🤣

HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED

Yesterday, I got a call from one of my good friends who is the CEO (Let’s call him Tim) of a massive audio company that helps churches.

He was just pickin’ my brain about his funnel (as are 80% of the calls I get from my friends 😅).

And I made the offhand comment of…

“When’s the last time you went through all your competitor’s funnels?”

(Which by the way is a brilliant little marketing hack)

He replies with, “out of my top three competitors, two of them don’t run ads and the one that does is a criminal organization that steals people’s money and is psychotic.”

Well.

Now thats a very interesting line.

So interesting…

… that after a line like that you can only go to Google to see what he’s talking about 😂

“Which competitor is that?” I respond

Then he tells me the guys name.

“C_____ G_____ at S_____ S______” (redacted)

The minute he said it…

My brain flooded with…

A DEEP DARK TWISTED MEMORY 😳

Oh.

My.

Goodness.

This.

Guy.

Used.

To.

Be.

My.

Client.

Until I FIRED his crazy a--!

This was a couple of years back when I was the Vice President at a Paid Ads agency.

He hired us to do his Meta Ads…

… and barely lasted a week!

Cause like the psychotic nut job that he is… he rage cussed out one of my very sweet Success Managers on a recorded call!

She told me about it.

I went and watched it back…

And sure enough this middle-aged caveman-bearded unkept pedophile lookin’ psycho went off the rails when one of his ads was slightly underperforming.

I called the guy immediately…

…AND FIRED HIS A** NO QUESTIONS ASKED!

Then he tried to cuss me out but I hung up on him.

Banned him from our system.

Never thought about him again.

Until yesterday…

When Tim mentioned him on our call!

(Which by the way, Tim runs an amazing company, has no criminal track record and doesn’t look like a pedophile at all 🤣).

So I google the psycho’s name and sure enough…

The first thing that pops up is this MASSIVE thread inside of a Church Production facebook group where my nut job ex-client LOST HIS MIND on this very nice pastor in a text thread.

The pastor screenshotted everything.

Posted it online.

And it went bananas viral!

Would you like you read that text thread?

…

……

I SAID…

WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ THAT TEXT THREAD!?!?!

Haha.

Well I warn you…

It is VERY crude.

I mean… It’s disgusting.

Including very bad language and racism so be aware before you continue reading.

I genuinely thought about not writing this email but at the same time…

We need to be aware of the psychotic people we need to stay away from!

So without further ado…

Here is the EXACT text thread:

💬 Hey [redacted], this is Pastor Anthony from [redacted]. I just got an email about no longer having access to Slack. Out contract was for 6 months correct?

🗨️ I had a card expire. Just updated it and paid. You should have access to

🗨️ As for the contract I don’t know i’ll have to look

💬 Ok. But yeah, the options were month to month or 6 months, right?

🗨️ I am only doing a year now for new folks but I’m fine with whatever you’re fine with now

💬 I was looking fore the agreement but I can’t find one. I needed to know when it was time to renew so that I could present it to the board

🗨️ Setup is a little different now

🗨️ $100 gets up to 90 minutes now

💬 That’s a big change. We were basically doing $100 for 30 minutes. But let me know our current agreement and how to check out the new structure

🗨️ I’ll have to look it up

💬 Ok

💬 Hello [redacted], just reaching out because our contract ended last month. You mentioned that you guys has a new setup in regarding the service. What is the new price point and structure?

💬 Hello? This is Pastor Anthony. This is my 2nd time reaching out. You never responded to my last text about what is the new setup and new structure you mentioned to me. We signed up for 6 months, which ended 2 months ago. But you’re continually billing us with no clarity of the agreement. Additionally, our live stream yesterday was horrible. It sounded like something a team of volunteers would produce, not something that a professional engineer would put out. Which is what we pay for, correct? I don’t know what happened, but this is not the same quality we were experiencing at first.

💬 Hey [redacted], someone accessed our system under your name and deleted all of our files. We’ve tried to call you with no success. I don’t know why this has happened but it will be handled appropriately.

🗨️ This is what happens when you steal $800 from somebody

🗨️ You must be a special kind of stupid that you’re shocked I reclaimed my work

🗨️ And think we’re just gonna keep working

💬 Steal $800. Man what are you talking about??

🗨️ You know exactly what I’m talking about

🗨️ And if you honestly really don’t, I suggest you go have a conversation with your bookkeeper

💬 Our account was debited on the 3rd of this month per usual

🗨️ Two disputes came in tuesday

🗨️ And we’re “incontestable.” So you immediately go your money back

💬 And you deleted files that didn’t even belong to you! That’s criminal. You might want to check your own bookkeeping. We didn't dispute anything

🗨️ I’m not doing this with you

🗨️ You know exactly what you did

🗨️ Two months of work. Which you received service for. Forced refund.

🗨️ We’re done dude. I hope that doorknob that split you hurts for a good long while

🗨️ I don’t give a fuck what you’re typing

🗨️ It was done at your direction. Or done without you knowing. They’re both on you.

🗨️ Now fuck off

💬 If you would’ve answered my last text, we couldve gotten clarity. I didn’t authorize any two months of anything. I stopped payment going forward because you wouldn’t tell answer my question about the 6 months ending. I’m a man of integrity and if they took 2 months off the work that was already done, we can rectify that. But you going into our system and deleting files is going to cost you more than that.

🗨️ Classic black people

🗨️ White people don’t do this shit

🗨️ You stole frome me. And somehow you are fucking stupid enough to not see that. And think were just gonna keep working like there was no problem

💬 As I figured…

🗨️ Me too

🗨️ Never had a single white church pull this shit

🗨️ Now for the third and final time

🗨️ Fuck off

🗨️ $800 bro

🗨️ Gone. Because you’re a piece of shit

🗨️ And you’re still for some reason shocked I reclaimed my work

🗨️ Again

🗨️ Black people

💬 I hate this for you

🗨️ Of fuck off

🗨️ Gotta tell you you may take the cake on the gaslighting

🗨️ You do it better than anybody I’ve ever worked with

🗨️ You did not just stop payment you clown

🗨️ Your bank gave you $800 back of money for work we’ve half already done and half given no info about your church no longer wanting it

🗨️ Your associate was messaging us as early as this morning about your service today

🗨️ At best. And I mean at best here. You were complicit in expecting us to work for free

🗨️ This is a difference in a stop payment and dispute.

🗨️ Big ass difference

💬 Man, tell yourself whatever you want. But I’ve told you what I’ve done. And I told you if what you said is true we could rectify. But you want to show your true racist colors

🗨️ I’m done with and I’m done with you. My best friend in the whole world is a lawyer. Come at me.

🗨️ Please. Do it

🗨️ I want you to.

🗨️ I have a fucking screenshot of the money being taken from my account. I just sent it to you.

🗨️ Theft

🗨️ Sanctioned by your bank because you’re their customer

💬 Oh I coming…trust me

🗨️ Just like a black person ready to sue someone over nothing

🗨️ It’s a cliche

💬 Our files are definitely something

🗨️ My god damn money is definitely something yo stupid fucker

🗨️ Jesus Christ. God you’re a dumbass

💬 Last thing…. ask yourself why would be looking for you to still work today if we actually took that $800 you’re talking about?

🗨️ There is no way in holy hell you, or someone in your organizxation without your knowledge knows what happened

🗨️ I suppose I should appreciate a half gesture of good faith. But this isn’t the first dispute I’ve had. I’ve had 242 disputes

🗨️ These are requested by the customer. They don’t just happen

💬 I stopped payment going forward. I DID NOT ask to dispute anything. My AV team will tell you that. I told them we’ll eat the past couple of weeks of bad service. And just go through the rest of month because we already paid for it. Man I don’t have to lie to you.

🗨️ I am choosing to and honestly believing you’re meaning well here. I honestly would have a conversation with your bank

💬 I see that it happened. I just checked the account. But I didn’t tell them to do that. it makes no sense.

🗨️ I do genuinely appreciate you looking into that

💬 But the fact remains that you deleted our files. You have impacted our service and our live stream.

💬 Why didn’t you just reach out to me?

🗨️ Because normally when someone disputes this point they’re past it

💬 So you decided to do harm to our church instead of calling me?

🗨️ I deal with this all the time. We offer a very creative, subjective product. That the overwhelming majority of people we do business for, could not care the tiniest bit about what all goes into even doing what we have done

🗨️ When I get an email from stripe saying your/their bank has initiated a despite. THE TIME FOR TALKING IS OVER

💬 Ok

🗨️ I do wanna say. Not that you’ll believe me.

🗨️ I’d pick my black clients over my white clients most any day. I actually loathe my own people. For a tremendous amount of reason

🗨️ But this sort of thing is at a heightened level with my black clients

🗨️ Nothing I said was a good look. It was bad. I can’t even say I didn’t mean it though.

WELL HE SOUNDS STABLE 🤣

I want to remind you that this sicko “helps” churches.

What a nut job.

And even more hilarious, when I fired him years ago, I remember our COO giving me crap about it. He said something snarky like “he paid his bills though?”

🙄 ☝️

This is EXACTLY why I build my own email-based business.

So if I ever had a nut job client or a horrible boss who thinks “he pays his bills so deal with him…”

I could simply just 🖕 and do my own thing.

I’m done dealing with crazy people like this.

And if you are too....

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Your friend,

Alin “Fires Nut Jobs” Dragu