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Drama!!! need help to find the truth.
Hi, I just have to get this story off my chest and would very much like your opinion. My company
ClassyContent, has been supplying content for 10 years now, and thankfully we have some very big
customers.
As a gesture of good will, I asked an employee of ours to do some marketing so he could make
more money. Previous to that he did mostly video editing work. So he lands this customer and all
communications with this customer is exclusively through this one employee. So I pay him an extra 5%.
This relationship has been going on for two years, and now I find out that he has been selling exclusive
content to that customer behind my back.
Now I don’t want to name the company, but they are a big company, one that you would feel was very
reputable, and I have met them personally. So I contacted them and made them aware of the situation.
I feel as though this employee, who was selling them product, was in effect stealing my ideas and good
will. After all he learned to do what I do working for us.
I really expected this company to agree with my views and not continue supporting this employee. Their
response was that they didn’t know, and even though I gave them the whole story they really didn’t care
and would continue buying content from this employee. Now they are buying less from me and more
from him, which effectively means I’m losing approximately $1000-1500 a month in lost profits. On top of that
this employee has recruited one of my shooters and orders shoots from him. which screws my relationship
My whole point is that we are a community and if we support this kind of action, which I consider
unethical, then we all ultimately lose out. I’m hoping you agree with me and with your thoughts and
opinions, maybe this customer will reconsider the relationship he has with this employee.
However, if the consensus is that things are just that way in the world we live in, then I’ll shut-up and
accept that things are the way they are. I do hope that common sense will prevail.
Thank you so much for letting me get this off my chest. I look forward to your responses and opinions. i hope more people would be for the truth and hopefully the customer stops buying from internal competitor.
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