Arelle Valla

About 4 years ago, I worked with an International trading firm where I directly reported to the President.  And we had a Manager who was in charge of communicating to him about a certain group of marketing people. And one time during a meeting where this manager was seeing the marketing people, I was asked to pitch in and gather some information for the following quarter’s recommendations to improve our work flow. After the meeting, the manager and I went to make some updates with the President. Incidentally, this person has been very good in building himself up with the President and I knew he was favored. 

He then began to make reports which I believe were not exactly what happened. Even before he was giving the details, he was already making this look that he wasn’t pleased with the way the sales people talked to him, made negative comments on particular personalities in the meeting. I wanted to speak up and correct him but decided not to because I know I will just look stupid.   

The long and short of it is, the President has been making decisions based on the wrong information.  I couldn’t stand the way this person lied about the situation and my stomach ached, and asked to be excused.  I then made a written recommendation of how I believe things can improved and it was done in a way that would question the verbal report my colleague earlier made.  The President believed him and disregarded that part of my recommendation.  I gave up the job and within a year or less, that Company closed.  

When I had a chance to speak with the President a few months after the company closed, he told me that he should have listened to me and others who were giving him some thoughts of not believing everything told him by that manager. 

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