Chapter 12
Lisa
Subject: Proposed Structural Change, VP — Latin America and Caribbean.
I skirt around the body of the email — stating the obvious reasons why there needs to be structural changes to drive efficiency, foster innovation, increase profitability, and a load of nonsense — and read the last two sentences.
Let me know when you’re available to meet.
While emails from colleagues all over the world continue to fill my inbox, I stare helplessly at the screen, too dazed to move on to something else.
My coffee remains untouched.
Slowly gathering my thoughts, I recall that State Foods Jamaica Limited, a publicly listed company on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, is a subsidiary (73.
8%) of the parent company, State Foods, Inc.
, incorporated in the United States. If Nick is promoted to VP – Latin America and Caribbean, he will now become an employee of State Foods, Inc.
I close Microsoft Outlook and open the updated Code of Conduct. In the six-hundred-page document, I search for Conflict of Interest.