Rafiq Hoque - h2global - Airnet Access Mohammad Rafiqul Hoque, Mohammad Hoque, Rafiqul Hoque Deceptive hiring practices, wrongful termination, racists, retaliation, illegal wage garnishment, never paid for work, tax evasion, piracy, pornography, photography of underage girls, etc Addison Texas

In my opinion Mohammad Rafiq Hoque and H2 Global  ( h2.net ) should be investigated by the FBI for possession and distribution of child pornography. He has a self-admitted obsession with taking pictures of young underage girls, including showing me very suggestive and sexually charged photos of extremely young girls that he had on his Nikon DSLR and Google Nexus tablet.  And he also confessed to me that he had seriously contemplated hosting online pornography on his company network servers at H2 Global and Airnet Access. Several clients asked him about hosting porn on their behalf and Mohammad said that if there was a way he could find a legal loophole that he would do it.

After the news of the Snowden leaks broke out Mohammad Rafiq Hoque said to me that he was paranoid that the NSA could be spying on him. He also stated that several years after 9/11 there was a period of time where he was flagged on a ‘no fly list’ and that he was on some sort of terrorism watchlist. When I shared with him my “intermittent fasting” and “reverse pyramid” diet and exercise habits and suggested that he try it out (he said he wanted to lose 5 pounds) he accused me of being a spy and asked me if someone had set me up to take him out. While we both shared a passion for photography, he seemed to be obsessed with photography of underage girls and when I confronted him about that he asked rhetorically if I thought that he was really a pervert?

One day at work he asked me straight up if I could download a “crack” for him so that he could use the latest version of Adobe Lightroom without having the pay for it. At several client sites he was running pirated and unlicensed versions of Microsoft Windows and when I complained to him that this seriously inhibits my systems administration efforts (even the server OS he was running was pirated) he instructed me to “just use the crack” to get rid of Microsoft Activation nag screens and limitations. For programs that he was too lazy to pirate and crack himself, he simply asked me to use my personal laptop (because he knew I had personal licenses of that software on my personal machine) to produce work for his clients on his behalf.

He had hired me on and put me in charge of growing his business and revamping his technological infrastructure through the acquisition of new tools and platforms and methodologies; and I was tasked with several initiatives including upgrading his ticketing system from “Excel spreadsheets” to “AutoTask”, from manual labor to RMM (Remote Management tools) such as “N-able”, and I was tasked with pricing, and installing other tools such as a full-disk-encryption initiatives (TrueCrypt)  for both internal and external (client) desktop and laptop machines, an Instant Messaging platform (Lync 2013) for both internal and external  end-users, and setting up a Linux syslog server (due to the fact that he said that for several months prior to my start date that his servers were always crashing and restarting on their own for “no apparent reason”).  He asked me to wear many hats and also tasked me with the sales, marketing and promotion side of things. I spent many hours editing digital pamphlets and creating new promotional information and coming up with advertisement solutions for his business. He remarked to me that he hadn’t updated his website in decades and needed a professional such as myself to do a total rebranding of his company logo and create a new website from scratch to replace the old rusty AOL looking website that he currently has up.

I was also put in charge of contacting, via email, phone and conference calls, the sales, marketing and technical experts at AutoTask, at Solarwinds, N-Able, and Microsoft in efforts to get price quotes, demos, trials on the above initiatives and projects.

Mohammad hatched up an illegal plan to unlawfully “resell” 1,000 sublicensed “Essential licenses” that were given to him for free by N-able/SolarWinds to his friend and partner at another company (JACK CRAIN of Airnet Access) to make extra income. The Essential licenses were given to him for free but he was prohibited from “reselling” them, and yet Mohammad said he was going to pitch it to all his friends and sell as much of the Essential licenses as he could. The most supremely ironic part of it all was on his own website at h2global.com Mohammad explicitly prohibits specifically this same type of unlawful reselling of accounts and puts a stern warning that if he ever caught one of this clients reselling accounts that he would immediately terminate their account and contact law enforcement.

He also asked me to contact N-able to get a “on-premise” (as opposed to online “hosted”) version of N-able because he said the N-able server is a linux .iso file and that he had a “crack” that could “crack” linux administrator accounts and that he would be able to reverse engineer the software so that he could use it locally and not have to pay N-able a single cent for the monthly subscriptions and account licenses. I told him I wanted no part in that but he said he was skilled enough to crack it himself when it came to Linux stuff.

He also admitted to having on several occasions misused and abused Microsoft MSDN licenses and illegally installed and deployed MSDN licenses to outside, external, third party clients in a production environment. He told me it wasn’t a big deal as long as he could count on me not to snitch on him. I joked that I might call the BSA (Business Software Alliance) and report a piracy anonymously but then he shot back that if I dared he would call the cops and make false allegations to get me into legal troubles. I reported this to Detective Imran Khan at the Addison Police department but he told me that he didn’t care and that I should just report it to the BBB instead.

The sales guys at AutoTask were trying to close a deal and contacted us back.  Mohammad was pissed that there would be a non-negotiable one-time setup fee of about $900 dollars. He said he didn’t have that kind of money since he could barely afford to pay me. He tried to coerce me into playing mind games with the reps at Autotask and he said that as the end of the month approached and the sales guys got desperate that they will “break” and will be eager to negotiate with him. He actually succeeded partially and got the one-time fee reduced from $900 to about $500 dollars. That deal and offer was contingent upon the assumption and agreement that Mohammad would buy three licenses (one for himself, one for me, and one for his part-time work from home QuickBooks lady Cathy Sistrunk) but as often happens, Mohammad fraudulently tricks the other party into accepting a deal and then he unilaterally changes the terms and force a re-negotiation after the fact. For example, he had hired me on at a certain pay rate and then lowered it after I accepted the offer, he also hired me on as a full time employee but then made me an independent contractor after I had already started. And he was also cheating the IRS in that he was using me as an integral part of his business (as a full time employee) but paying me as a contractor without benefits.  So in this case, he calls back the AutoTask guy and told him that we will only be purchasing ONE license as opposed to the agreed upon three licenses. When I objected he said that we could all three of us SHARE that same license (which was illegal).

One evening we were driving around in his blue ford pickup truck at work (going to different client sites to deploy software) and he shared with me a story on how recently his other car was involved in a bad accident and was totaled. He said that a woman on the other side of the lane of the highway was crossing traffic and ran into him, but that technically it was his fault because he was speeding and he was supposed to be yielding to traffic… but that somehow through his social and coercive tactics he convinced the woman to falsely confess and falsely admit to it being her fault rather than his.  That same evening he was driving around like a madman. Swerving in and out of lanes on the highway and honking everyone that got in his way or pissed him off and at one point we were about to collide with a semi that couldn’t see us (we were in his blind spot and he was merging) instead of slowing down and giving the semi the right of way, Mohammad put my life at risk by racing ahead of the semi, honking his horns repeatedly and then when he saw the truck driver was African American he gave him the middle finger and called him “stupid N-word”s”… I felt that from that experience that Mohammad was a really barbaric and hateful individual with a lot of vile filled in his heart. That wasn’t the first time he made hateful racial slurs, he also referred to his previous contractor (Johnathan) as a “stupid f---ing n-word”. He said “blacks are all lazy and stupid” and that he was seduced and conned/tricked by Johnathan.

He told me all kinds of ways he was “Legally cheating the IRS” and seemed to get off and get high on that sort of stuff. He said he knew all the loopholes and all the many tricks in tax laws. He said for something to count as a “business expense” a lunch for example had to include at least two people. Usually when he took Cathy out to lunch he would classify it as a business expense. Since Cathy worked from home a lot, whenever he went to lunch alone he would often eat more and then pretend that it was two person’s worth of food and still classify it as a business expense (even though he admits that he wasn’t conducting business and it was just a lunch by himself). He even tried to involve me into the scam, feeding me schemes like how he would invite me out to lunch every day and that he would deduct it straight from my paycheck so that I would not be paying taxes on the lunch and that he could then find an excuse to classify all his lunches as “business lunches”.  He talked about other elaborate scams involving his car and mileage that I didn’t even understand.

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