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Internet Company’s Sales and Marketing Director Wrongly Fires Employee after Misleading Him on Several Occasions
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Huntington Beach, CA – March 23, 2006 – Without provocation marketing writer Michael Wiederman was unexpectedly fired by HouseHunt.com Sales and Marketing Director Angelica after only four months on the job for ‘not fitting the culture of the company.’
“For the first two months on the job I was literally informed by some staff members how Angelica was praising me during the sales meetings. I was also sent an email from Angelica on how my sales letters were helping to bring in new business.”
Unfortunately the situation quickly turned as Wiederman explains, “I figured that my job might be in jeopardy after her scathing review on my writing,” Wiederman continued, “What threw me was that nothing was brought to my attention before the review, even after I approached Angelica on several occasions to see if there was anything she wanted to discuss which she declined each time.” As a result, Wiederman also assumed that there were no issues when Richardson once told him that if she does not comment on someone’s work that means she is satisfied with it.
The problem first began when Wiederman inquired from Richardson the results of a project that he worked on when he was informed that it was not what the President of the company originally requested. “When I offered to rework them she told me that it was not necessary and that it was not my fault because
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the President of the company did not make it clear to her from the beginning
exactly what he expected.” Wiederman continued, “About a month later, during
my 90 day review she preceded to not only rip apart my writing as a whole but brought up the previous incident again by blaming me for its failure which contradicted her original response to me. In order to give me another chance, she then gave me a writing assignment along with a deadline to complete it which I met that she never reviewed.”
Wiederman still has no clue as to why he was abruptly fired although he does have theories. “In one piece that I wrote I included a reference to another company and in a second incident, in the owner’s yearly letter to the clients I missed a couple of errors. I admitted to the mistakes but she obviously took them personally as if I was trying to sabotage her in some way.” Wiederman continues, “In all of my pieces I honestly made every attempt to check my work to ensure that there were no mistakes of any kind but on occasion, a couple would get by me unfortunately because it reflected on her this couldn’t be forgiven.” And Wiederman added, “This is the problem with Angelica in that she is more concerned with her own standing, specifically to the owner, within the company than in helping those that work under her succeed.”
One example of this involved a piece recapping the company’s 2005 Christmas party which Wiederman was asked by Richardson to create for their in-house newsletter. “I thought it would be a good idea to include testimonials from the employees that earned awards. I received one response from an
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employee, no longer with the company, that chose to thank not only the company’s owners but also her direct supervisor along with another employee but Angelica demanded that I remove the last two references because according to her the purpose of the piece was to exclusively only thank the two owners. The ironic kicker to this is that I did thank them individually beforehand in a separate paragraph at the very end of the piece.”
Richardson, who had no prior marketing or supervisory experience before her current position, was briefly a real estate agent while employed as an assistant to Bearden at his own previous real estate agency. He immediately appointed her Marketing and Sales Director once he established HouseHunt.com in 1995.
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Internet Company’s Sales and Marketing Director Wrongly Fires Employee after Misleading Him on Several Occasions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Huntington Beach, CA – March 23, 2006 – Without provocation marketing writer Michael Wiederman was unexpectedly fired by HouseHunt.com Sales and Marketing Director Angelica after only four months on the job for ‘not fitting the culture of the company.’
“For the first two months on the job I was literally informed by some staff members how Angelica was praising me during the sales meetings. I was also sent an email from Angelica on how my sales letters were helping to bring in new business.”
Unfortunately the situation quickly turned as Wiederman explains, “I figured that my job might be in jeopardy after her scathing review on my writing,” Wiederman continued, “What threw me was that nothing was brought to my attention before the review, even after I approached Angelica on several occasions to see if there was anything she wanted to discuss which she declined each time.” As a result, Wiederman also assumed that there were no issues when Richardson once told him that if she does not comment on someone’s work that means she is satisfied with it.
The problem first began when Wiederman inquired from Richardson the results of a project that he worked on when he was informed that it was not what the President of the company originally requested. “When I offered to rework them she told me that it was not necessary and that it was not my fault because
-- more --
the President of the company did not make it clear to her from the beginning
exactly what he expected.” Wiederman continued, “About a month later, during
my 90 day review she preceded to not only rip apart my writing as a whole but brought up the previous incident again by blaming me for its failure which contradicted her original response to me. In order to give me another chance, she then gave me a writing assignment along with a deadline to complete it which I met that she never reviewed.”
Wiederman still has no clue as to why he was abruptly fired although he does have theories. “In one piece that I wrote I included a reference to another company and in a second incident, in the owner’s yearly letter to the clients I missed a couple of errors. I admitted to the mistakes but she obviously took them personally as if I was trying to sabotage her in some way.” Wiederman continues, “In all of my pieces I honestly made every attempt to check my work to ensure that there were no mistakes of any kind but on occasion, a couple would get by me unfortunately because it reflected on her this couldn’t be forgiven.” And Wiederman added, “This is the problem with Angelica in that she is more concerned with her own standing, specifically to the owner, within the company than in helping those that work under her succeed.”
One example of this involved a piece recapping the company’s 2005 Christmas party which Wiederman was asked by Richardson to create for their in-house newsletter. “I thought it would be a good idea to include testimonials from the employees that earned awards. I received one response from an
-- more --
employee, no longer with the company, that chose to thank not only the company’s owners but also her direct supervisor along with another employee but Angelica demanded that I remove the last two references because according to her the purpose of the piece was to exclusively only thank the two owners. The ironic kicker to this is that I did thank them individually beforehand in a separate paragraph at the very end of the piece.”
Richardson, who had no prior marketing or supervisory experience before her current position, was briefly a real estate agent while employed as an assistant to Bearden at his own previous real estate agency. He immediately appointed her Marketing and Sales Director once he established HouseHunt.com in 1995.
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