Griffs Jobs

Job #23 Crestec Document Engineering Solutions, Los Angeles,
CA 1998 Sales Manager /Member of Executive Committee
It was my job to supervise and trained the Sales Staff and
coordinate with production on daily basis orders. I was also responsible
for Customer Service, Contracts, pricing, Business Development and a
few more things.
Well staying close to your Industry colleagues can be both a good and
bad thing It just so happened that a Print Industry headhunter Leslie
who I had met at an Industry function called me knowing of what I
had been through with Uarco and asked if I was interested in a Sales
Manager Opportunity she was trying to fill. I said sure let’s check it out.
Well before I knew It I was hired as Sales Manager for Crestec Document
Engineering Solutions and paid a base Salary of $70,000 which
was more money than I had ever been paid in my life. I had somewhat
rebounded from hitting the bottom a few years earlier when I was delivering
Pizzas for extra cash. I was now living with my current wife had a
nice job and was living in a nice home in Belmont Shore, CA.
My wife had never had children and was a very successful real estate
agent who taught school for 10 years before deciding on becoming a real
estate agent. I always say in joking I had to accept her 3 dogs when we
met and of course she had to accept my 3 kids which she did with open
arms …
Getting knocked off the High Chair
I must say the Crestec experience was interesting.
It was what I thought a nice fit for me from
all my past job experiences. I was able to travel
quite a bit working on some special projects and
visited Toronto, Canada for my 1st time where
we were working with Corrugated Box Plants for
a special project for one of our clients. Being a
Japanese owned company was really cool. When the CEO from Japan
was in town we went to fantastic Japanese restaurants and to this day I
love Japanese food. All good things do end sometimes and in this job,
I was terminated after only 11 months. I believe I was terminated in
what was a case of the sales force never really accepting me as the Sales
Manager. The Sales staff of course being the lifeblood of any company
have great clout.
64