Disgusted With Jason Crum
Honolulu,#2UPDATE Employee
Tue, April 01, 2008
Hi All! It's Naomi; my email was copied here without my permission. The email is irrelevant to the rest, in case I have long since disassociated with this company for unrelated reasons. I was approached by the CEO of API (Arasys Perfector, Inc.) to fix and smooth the situation which appeared to be bank error. I thought Jason and I had come to accordance regarding the situation. We were both baffled, and doing our best to investigate on both ends to resolve the situation. I acknowledged the mistakes of the past made by other people, and sincerely did my best to help Jason with the information I was given. Jason had been extremely aggressive, what would be categorized as verbally abusive, to numerous employees, which was hard to believe when I first spoke with him. We got along wonderfully and were both confident my involvement would resolve any conflict. Although I was not authorized to investigate the situation with the bank myself, I followed up on requested investigations numerous times and these were the answers I had. I was commended for my ability to tame the tiger =) Little did I know, my trying to help him would slap me in the face when he snapped, as apparently, he had with everyone. It's sad really. He called the corporate offices, much to my surprise as I greeted him with warmth, irate with the email I had sent; when the last time we had spoken, these things had been clarified and we had agreed on a plan of action. He berated me, insulted me, screamed at me, mysteriously, I was v. confused as to why he was upset, everything had been fine I thought, we had both come to the conclusion through numerous requests for deeper research, it was a banking error and were doing everything we could on both ends to determine the error; he flipped like a switch on me, I still don't know to this day if Dr. Weiss had spoken with him or not but I was informed by her that they had. Suddenly, I understood where every other person who had dealt with him in the company had reported of him. I handed the situation off to the Director of QA, a graceful veteran in the industry; with all the other stresses on my shoulders working there on top of the fact that I had nothing to do with the reasons he was upset to begin with -- I was unwilling to listen to this unwarranted screaming, cursing and insulting regarding the kind followup email I had written him. Talk about misinterpretation and turning to anger. He was angry with the wrong person, but, from what I understand and my experiences there, he was outraged at some point with everyone who had associated with him, regardless of their attempts to satisfy his easily engaged malice. I wish I had believed everyone that he had a horrid and irrational temper and stayed far away from his destructive behavior. In trying to help this man, he has tried to stain my good name here. Unfortunately, there were many stories of him doing much worse things to people in his life than this, and being in the military, there should be higher standards of conduct. Reporting him to his superior officers was an often brought-up topic but this man was such a nightmare, no one wanted to get any more involved with him. He was like a volatile, poisonous bomb just waiting to explode on anyone who came in his path. I do not underestimate the many levels of wrath this man harnesses. Re-read my email. Anything wrong here? I was trying to followup, to provide email confirmation that we had received his payment (which I was not involved in taking but was told had finally been received). I also find it appalling that he is comfortable using my name to try and hurt the company I am no longer even involved with, much less had anything to do with the problems he had there, but ended up a scapegoat to someone who does not host the courage to even share his own name but has no problem attempting to tarnish mine. It is extremely hurtful and a v. sore spot for me, as I was doing the best I could to help this man, perhaps he could be changed, made happy, if only I put my heart into trying; despite the specific reports of his abusive behavior which I felt v. conflicted about even speaking to this man because I had heard what he was capable of, but the company was desperate to find resolution with this man, we honestly could not locate the payment in question and we were running out of people that were willing to even speak to him after the way he had treated them, as well as people he was willing to speak to, as well as acting on the facts I trusted my employer to be honest about which I believed to be true. Some of our best teachers in life are negative =) I learned never to email a habitually crazed man with an awful reputation, especially without a disclaimer; if my colleagues inform me that someone is completely illogical and psychotic, I shouldn't take it lightly, I should pass it on to someone who is more experienced handling irate and uncontrollably angry people, someone was more capable of brushing off ill intentioned people. I learned to identify a number of behavioral red flags that indicate uninvited and undeserved trouble. These lessons are priceless; it is unfortunate they have to be dealt with in such a public forum when I have done nothing but remain candid. Regarding Arasys Perfector, I have little to say about the company. I am no longer associated with them. I cut those ties once I realized the it was physically hurting me to remain involved with anything there whatsoever; I was becoming physically ill from the stress and chaos that seemed to be unavoidable as long as I remained in that position. I was only one person there and I wasn't able to fix all the problems that had been in place long before I had anything to do with them and no amount of slaving away on my part could repair (to my satisfaction) the mistakes that were made by those who came before me. If anything, I believed also, I thought I could help turn things around, I loved the science behind the technology, saw the vision, was v. passionate in my work and was completely in love with the science. I realized, much to my dismay one day, there is no work for me to be done there -- it was the wrong environment for me. Some people can live like that forever, I, on the other hand haven't looked back since. I wish the company all the best, I am grateful for the opportunities I had while I was there and am blessed to be with the team I have now. I learned a lot about what I will and will not do, what to watch out for and who to watch out for. I found my dream company, astounding and brilliant colleagues, boss and position. The structure is beautiful and I believe it was meant to change. C'est la Vie and thanks for the lesson! I pray this is the last I ever have to hear of this =) Au revoir, N