Ok cool lets get into this
I could take a few different angles here, but I'm just going to tell it like it is and acknowledge the facts, as well as disputing certain things posted in his so called 'expose' that simply aren't true.
Lets start by saying that of course I was extremely grateful for Huts help. When I got back from Mexico, I was pretty much dead broke and heading north up the Pacific Coast highway in my shitty Buick Century with Tommy riding shotgun. Out of options and a little desperate. I don't see the point in sugar coating it, or painting out a different scenario.
I texted Hut from San Diego when I was grinding 1/3 at Oceans 11 down to my last 800 bucks, and told him I was struggling and heading his way because I was on my way to Sacramento.
To be perfectly clear, I never asked him for any handouts, or begged him for any cash. He told me he had 5 days comped at a local hotel that I was welcome to stay at. I never solicited any charity or stuck my hand out expecting any freebies. He willingly offered to let me use the comped room before I headed north so I could get a few days rest. I had already been sleeping in my car after crossing the border to save money on hotel rooms, and it was a welcome relief.
Now, I see that there is a lot of discussion about this bathtub I supposedly lit an M-80 off in or cooked meth in lol
I can say with 100% certainty that I had absolutely nothing to do with the damage to that bathtub. I have no idea what happened to it, and at the time I was baffled why I was being blamed for it when the hotel manager called Hut and complained.
I denied it to Hut several times, and when I heard I was being blamed...actually went back to the hotel and requested to speak to the manager directly to plead my case. I have no fucking clue what happened to that stupid bathtub....but I can assure you I had absolutely nothing to do with it. That is a fact.
If I was responsible for it, I would have immediately accepted responsibility for it and apologized profusely and paid for any damages...But that simply wasn't the case.
Also, considering the fact that Hut has decided to write his big post, IF I was responsible for it, I can guarantee you I'd admit to it in this thread and laugh my ass off about it...but unfortunately I can't do that because it wasn't my doing
Not sure how else to explain myself by stating that I have no clue how that bathtub was damaged. I don't see the point in explaining myself any further on the matter. Its that simple.
OK now with that out of the way...
Lets address the timeline here for this photo that Hut took of me sleeping in my car.
He loaned me the 500 bucks literally on the day I left Lompoc...so can someone explain to me why he was taking a photo like that in the first place several days/weeks before I left ?
The simple answer is that he obviously wanted some kind of leverage or evidence to use against me in the future for some unknown reason. I didn't owe him a single dime, and was working for him at his shitty, filthy dive of a pizza restaurant.
After I got to Lompoc and checked out of the hotel, I asked him if he could give me a few hours to put some cash together and he agreed. He never once said he didn't need the help. If he didn't need the help, all he had to do was say 'I'm sorry I'm fully staffed' and that would have been the end of it. But no, he gave me 4 hours a day for a few weeks which I worked in good faith, giving him an honest effort.
It was humiliating enough working at his shithole with kids half my age, but the situation I was in gave me enough motivation to just suck it up and try to scrape together some cash...but it wasn't getting me ahead, and basically made just enough to cover my expenses for a motel room and money for alcohol. I was more-less spinning my wheels and looking to get the fuck out of that white trash hell hole Lompoc as soon as possible
Ok lets move on to a few juicy morsels about Hut...
First of all, he treats his employees like shit and his place is fucking filthy. The Yelp reviews posted throughout this reply validate that his pizza is garbage, and most of his employees definitely aren't happy working at that dump.
They are there only because Lompoc isn't exactly a hotbed for employment opportunities, so they only stay with him out of necessity.
Hut likes to portray himself as some pillar of the community who does all this work for the sake of the town. LOL that is comical. The community work he does is for one reason and one reason only...to promote his soggy pizza in a podunk town like Lompoc. He has no other vehicles to advertise, so he shows up at various events pimping his lackluster excuse for pizza.
He also landed a contract with the local high school to show up at lunchtime, where he sells these 'mini' pizzas for 5 bucks each that cost him maybe 30 cents a piece to make. His portable ovens don't even work, and by the time the kids come filing out after the lunch bell rings, its ice cold. But they pay it anyway because they are dumb ass high school kids.
Hut used to laugh at how dumb the kids are.. beaming with pride that he has this gig with the local school district where he can blatantly rip them off. Oh and every few days he goes to the local 99 cent store and buys all the expired candy like M&M's and Nerds, and other shit candy for pennies on the dollar, and then pawns it off on the high school kids for a buck each. lmao talk about a sweet set up. Gotta hand it to him for orchestrating a deal with the school district where he makes several hundred dollars a day with very little effort or money invested. major props for that one
Back to how Hut treats his own staff and how clueless he is when it comes to personnel management.
Classic example is this guy 'Gabe' who was easily his most dedicated and hard working employee. The guy was an ex heroin addict who had been to prison a few years before. He was living in a halfway house in Lompoc (a clean and sober environment) and worked as Huts dough guy, doing deliveries in the afternoons.
He would show up daily at 5 AM and start rolling out pizza dough, proofing them in the walk in refrigerator. Gabe's job was by far the hardest and most physically demanding job there.
Gabe had some emotional issues and was for lack of a better word, a bit 'off'. He had this propensity to snap on occasion when stressed out, and most of Huts employees kind of accepted that he was slightly disturbed.
Despite that, Gabe showed up each morning on time, unlocked everything, and performed his tasks with efficiency and without complaint. He had been working there for over 3 years, and Hut the cheap ass Jew had never given him a raise. The guy was still making a shitty 10 bucks an hour. While I was there, apparently Gabe asked Hut for a raise and was flat out denied.
Well apparently this didn't sit well with Gabe, and a few weeks after I'd left, Hut texts me and tells me he fired him because one morning he blurted out an F bomb unprovoked. From what I gathered, that was the only reason for it. So after close to four years as a dedicated employee...Hut shitcans his hardest worker for swearing. lol but it gets better...
There is other guy who Hut just loves. This lazy fat ass piece of shit black dude named 'Kenneth'. Literally nobody liked this guy. He was (and is) a total cancer to the workplace. All the other employees would spread their work around, all working as a team, performing a variety of tasks...but oh no....not Kenneth. He would sit planted by the pizza assembly line never budging unless an order came in.
When challenged on his lack of contribution to the team, his reply was, "I'm a cook" lmao yea some cook. It sure takes a lot of culinary expertise to slap a few pieces of low grade pepperoni and wilted vegetables on soggy pizza dough. The guy was the joke of the whole 'restaurant' to everyone except Hut.
After watching this worthless fuck for a couple of weeks, and listening to some of the other crew complain about his terrible work ethic, I finally approached Hut and said 'dude, you really need to get rid of this fool'...but he was adamant about keeping him for some unknown reason. I couldn't understand why Hut had this man crush on him, considering the fact that he didn't do shit, and was famous for sitting on his fat ass out in the dining room for over an hour after he shift ended....while still 'on the clock'
Hut was oblivious to the fact that Kenneth was raping him for free food and put very little effort into his job. What a miserable pos he was/is.
But here's the funny part....about a month after I left Lompoc, I get this text from Hut saying 'Marty you were right about Kenneth'
It turns out that Kenneth took it upon himself to report Huts restaurant to the local department of health and OSHA for unsanitary conditions, and Hut was fined for various health violations
If thats not enough, rather than firing him, what does Hut do ? he invites Kenneth to accompany him to Las Vegas for the annual pizza expo, and gives him a raise lol. You can't make this shit up. To this day, Kenneth is still there, undoubtedly scarfing as much free shitty pizza as he can stuff down his mouth, and milking Hut for countless paid hours while he sits on his ass watching TV in the dining room.
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Oh and it's noteworthy that a little over 2 years ago...Hut was living on his last few weeks of unemployment insurance, broke as fuck...one step above homelessness...staying at his sisters house with his pig of a wife...no job...no prospects.
His mom passed away and left him like $150,000 which is the only reason that he is now a restaurant owner. He didn't work for shit because his entire life Hut has been a low rent food service worker with no marketable skills other than slinging overpriced generic pizza.
If it wasn't for him mom passing away leaving him a six figure inheritance, he'd either be still living in his sisters second bedroom, homeless and divorced, or wearing a Domino' hat making deliveries for 10 bucks an hour plus tips.
Now lets address this $500.00 debt I owe Hut
Yes I do owe him the money. Not going to sidestep that or make any kind of lame excuses. But I will explain a few things about the reasons why he has waited for as long as he has. I think its approaching 14 months or so now. Which I confess, is inexcusable. However...
When I finally got back to Sacramento after leaving Lompoc, I had made the decision to get my paperwork and necessary credentials in order to enable me to start shipping out again. The money was great, and working in Huts filthy pizza hole was a real wake up call that I needed to get my shit together. The whole experience working there was demoralizing, and I began to work towards getting back to work as a merchant marine.
I borrowed enough money from my mom to facilitate travel, course fees, and union dues and to complete the process that would enable me to resume the lucrative career I had left over 15 years prior. It was a time consuming process, taking almost 4 months to finalize everything. Along the way I stayed in touch with Hut, explaining to him what was going on and that I would pay him his money as soon as I got back from my first trip aboard the ship.
So I do 74 days on my first trip back going back and forth from Singapore to Diego Garcia, and saved about 18K. I fly back to Sacramento and immediately paid my mom back in full to the tune of 8 grand, and then bought a 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee for another 5K...leaving me with about 5 grand left. Not exactly swimming in money, and already preparing to get back on another ship.
I explained my situation to Hut, and asked him if he could hang on until I catch my next ship, and promised to get him back as soon as I got paid off...and he reluctantly agreed. Granted, I was putting him off, and I concede that I should have taken care of him as promised, but I didn't. I don't have any excuse for that.
That's when the threats started
After I was on my next ship, I start getting multiple texts from him saying that he was going to 'make a post' if I didn't pay him immediately and how ungrateful I was...calling me a piece of shit, and how he didn't need the help when he gave me hours, and basically what a saint he was by loaning me 500 bucks. I was basically stunned that suddenly it was such a big deal, and more than a little pissed off that he was making these threats to 'expose' me on PFA. I guess he thought that was his big ace in the hole and that he had something on me that if he threatened to make his post, I would frantically send him his 500.
But I don't respond well to threats, and made the conscious decision to stall him, if only to piss him off. I had every intention on paying him within a week after being on my next ship, but his attitude sucked ass, and I just thought to myself 'fuck this motherfucker', and put the debt on the back burner...last on my list of priorities.
So after a few weeks while working, I log into PFA when I was in Spain, and there are like a half a dozen PM's from him threatening me more. I kept telling him to sign up a PayPal account and he's get his money immediately, but he refused. I must have offered to send him $500.00 on PayPal no less than a dozen times. I had the money waiting for him, but he wanted me to sign up with some other payment processor called Venmo I had never even heard of, and I'm like fuck that....you want your money, sign up for PayPal and you'll have it within the hour you fat fuck. But he refused again and began issuing more and more threats of writing a post on PFA....so whatever.
Finally fast forward to a couple of months ago when I'm getting ready to ship again, and I call him personally on his cell phone. He picks up a little surprised, but wasn't hostile at all. I sincerely apologized for the extended wait time for not getting paid back, and assured him that I was shipping out the first week of September, and that he had my word I would take care of him as soon as I got my first check. I told him I was going to send him a money order and he was fine with that. We said our goodbyes, and my plan was to pay him as soon as I got my payoff for September. Not once did I ever consider 'rolling' him for a crappy 500 bucks.
Hut and I go back over 8 years now, back to when he was my 'penis protector' on NWP, so the notion that after an 8 year old friendship, I'm just going to up and rip him off for a stupid five hundo is fucking ridiculous.
Now it may have been 8 years ago, but Hut has conveniently forgotten to mention that I shadowed him on PokerStars to two final tables, netting him in the neighborhood of $8000.00 and change. I took a small commission for calling every hand, but the truth is that he still banked well over 7 grand for my efforts.
Also, while I was in Lompoc, he put me in some MTT at Chumash Casino...I don't remember the buy in, but it was like 60 bucks I think with about 120 or so runners. The deal was a 50/50 stake which was cool by me.
So I win the tourney and take the 1st place prize money of about $1200.00 and as we are walking out of the poker room, I start to give him his share, and he is like 'nah thats ok you can hold on to it Marty...you need the money'....but I insisted that he take his share because despite what Hut suggests about my questionable 'honor'...we made a deal which I stuck to, despite needing the extra cash.
When I was in Mexico back in early 2015 and took down the hatrick of MTTs to the tune of $36,000+, I had several debts to friends and family for roughly 12K....I didn't have to say a fucking word about those wins, but each and every person I owed money to were paid in full. I wanted to clear my plate of debts for my own piece of mind, and to restore the faith in me to people that are important in my life. It stung like a bitch, but I felt much better about it. With that said, this notion that I would deliberately rip off Hut for $500.00 is a joke.
Did I fuck up by not paying him sooner ? absolutely. I should have gotten this off my books months ago, but I didn't. So part of me doesn't fault Hut for being upset, but I don't respond well to threats and/or ultimatums.
Hut is not a bad person really, but I'm not surprised that he chose to make his big post after such an extended period of time being owed money. But considering our history, he crossed a line by his lame attempt to 'out' me here, considering the fact that we spoke not even 8 weeks go on the phone and was going to receive his money in a matter of days.
Now with all that said, I'll be sending Hut a care package in about a few weeks when my contract is finished. My checks are being held back in Sacramento, and since Hut is too retarded to sign up for PayPal to get his money, he can wait another 4 or 5 weeks.
I'll be sending him a little something extra for his trouble as well
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