It was 8:32 in the morning, I had just sitting at my desk in the office that I shared with an external partner who clung to ten and the computer was just starting. Sonia came with his usual smile of someone who believes something nice to say without realizing there is nothing funny in what he has to say. He wore a black turtleneck sweater, rather elegant, a necklace with a pendant that seemed to have some value, a shiny black skirt, black stockings and black shoes with a rounded tip, similar to the dancers, but with a high heel off no more than three fingers. I wear a different person I would have said he had chosen to dress sexy politely, seemed to have put in place for an important meeting, short meeting where I met existence.
came all out of breath and closed the door behind him and just asked me to do her a favor.
"Tell me," I replied with the indifference of those who do not want to sound too annoyed. Moreover begin the workday with a colleague not too nice, that believes you're his friend, who falls in the office asking you a favor, even before your computer is started, is not the best way.
"You have to cover me in the meeting today," he said, smiling as if I was asked to pass a pen.
"hedge in that sense? And then ... that meeting? ", in fact I did not know of any meeting.
"You know the presentations for businesses of February? Those with the 20/70? "
20/70 was the name used in the company as an abbreviation of the name of a product. Do not ever go into details for reasons of confidentiality, but I can say he was the leading product that we offer to our clients for the spring campaign. The presentation I had prepared myself with data taken from a database into which she had entered the various technical data.
The problem arose from the fact that on that database were also present data products already tested but were not placed on the market within two years.
It was one of the open secrets in the industry, not just ours. Both we and our competitors were already ahead in the search, but we'll trade in intermediate products playing on the fact that when we traded the top performing products, the customers would buy the new product to keep up with its competitors, even without having yet disposed of the stocks old produced less powerful, generating a surplus of revenue for us at least ten percent. In addition, doing so also our strategic partner for industries producing machinery, they could do the same game. And, adding that in some cases the multinational I worked for also had stakes in partner companies, the surplus revenue raised from 10% to 15%.
In short: Sonia had made a mistake in saving files, for which the data I had were the ones included in this product is not yet commercially available, data that had already been uploaded to the database because they were used in internal and strategic partners. The error was his, not mine. I had indeed taken the appropriate files, but those files were the wrong data. In addition, an unfortunate coincidence, my supervisor was absent during the week that were sent to the customer presentations, and I had left the responsibility for final inspection. It was evident that my job, not being a chemist, was to verify that the files that I got the data were those set out in the briefing previous week, after having asked Sonia if the data at the time in which they collected from the files were the correct ones. She gave me the go ahead, trusting herself.
Customers had thus received the submission of a product that was not yet ready, but at that point could begin to lobby for 'the product enters the market before the date fixed by the company. The problem itself could also be stopped if it were not for the existence of another open secret: that we and our competitors were doing the same game, more or less by mutual agreement. But when he began to turn voice that we would put the new product on the market sooner than expected, the various competitors announced similar one year ahead of schedule. This meant more economic harm diplomatic incident with his competitors.
within the company ... This meant that some heads would be skipped.
The meeting was talking about Sonia was just a meeting to reconstruct what had happened and he failed to understand who and where. This meant that the head was likely to jump first was to Sonia, as someone else in addition in case of rough justice.
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