we don't know it's greedy or underhanded. we only know what ccbill says, which could be true but almost surely has spin. for all we know, patrick's aging mother lives here and he wanted to live by her or maybe he hadn't gotten a raise in 3 years. after thinking about this for a few minutes, i realized that i thought of over 20 reasons why patrick could have changed to another company.

and - not that we know it happened as this is only personal speculation - suppose that three years ago at a convention someone from epoch said to patrick "hey, if you're ever free, give us a call. we could use someone like you" and patrick started dreaming of beautiful socal weather.

personally i couldn't even think of taking sides here without knowing real details.