EXPULSION
Notorious Chief Operations Officer ("COO") Beatrice Walker's career at Priority One Credit Union came to an abrupt and unexpected end of Friday, July 8, 2011. The woman whose incompetence and abusive treatment of employees overshadowed even those of President Charles R. Wiggington, Sr., found herself the target of the same unscrupulous tactics she once freely employed in targeting, abusing and terminating employees she believed were enemies of her imaginary kingdom. We will provide an account of Ms. Walker's final days at the sinking credit union towards the end of this month's post.
But first, we've received several emails inquiring if we had stopped permanently stopped posting on this blog. Though it's true that our last post was published in May 2011 but we decided to take a few weeks off to delve through much of the information we have to determine what will be published.
In late June, our seemingly long absence even prompted COO, Beatrice Walker, to declare that she finally succeeded in "shutting down the blog." It was of course, nothing more than wishful thinking on the presumptuous COO.
During June and July, Priority One continued to suffer setbacks as it struggled to garner new business. Not only did it fail to obtain the amount of new business needed to offset its overhead, account closures remained high.
And though the credit union has returned to the BLACK, the contemptuous environment created by President Charles R. Wiggington, Sr. remains in turmoil. Nowadays, President Wiggington has transformed the working environment into one fueled by vicious gossip and backbiting all of which are contributing to the unraveling of the credit union's infrastructure. Despite internal decay, President Wiggington seems comfortable, reposing himself atop the rubble of what once was a credible and promising credit union. Here are just some of the setbacks experienced by the credit union since the month of May:
- Consumer loan funding continues to plummet.
- Real Estate Loan Funding of first-time mortgages slowed
- Some of the properties financed by the credit union were subject to foreclosures
Despite failures and losses, over the past three weeks, AVP, Sylvia Perez, who oversees Region III, declared that business is “great” and “things are good”. Obviously, she doesn't know how to read the credit union's Monthly Income Statement/Balance Sheets or it's quarterly Financial Performance Reports.
What Priority One has proven over the past year is that it is no one's "financial fitness center" nor does it possess the ability to help members and employees "win with money." All the President can do is continue to mutter statements about non-existent success hoping that someone will buy into his spiel.
STORMY WEATHER
Will Priority One Credit Union ever escape the quagmire of losses and scandals it was thrust into by Charles R. Wiggington, Sr.?
Following publication of our last post, Priority One received notice of a second lawsuit filed against it by yet another former employee. Like the lawsuit filed by former Burbank Branch Manager, Linda Nisely, the newest lawsuit alleges wrongful termination. That's the second lawsuit filed since October 2010.
Despite the gravity of the situation, the President has been unable to suppress his need to verbalize whatever it is that comes to mind and recently declared that he is innocent of all wrong doing and described the Plaintiffs as "disgruntled employees" who are trying to "extort money from the credit union." Well, if the lawsuits are frivolous and unfounded then he's got nothing to worry about. So if he hasn't done anything wrong, then why would he find it necessary to publicly proclaim his innocence?
The filings by two former employees are a new phenomena at Priority One that followed the appointment of Charles R. Wiggington, Sr. to President. Of course, prior to his appointment no other President of the credit union had ever been found guilty of sexual harassment.
BANISHED
But even news of the second lawsuit was overshadowed by news that notorious and ineffective COO, Beatrice Walker, had been terminated after 5 p.m. on Friday, July 8, 2011.
The woman who earned the reputation for ruthlessness, lying, and for violating credit union policies and state and federal laws was stunned to learn that the Board of Directors had authorized her termination.
Ms. Walker was employed by Priority One for slightly more than two (2) years. During her brief stay she became known for her ruthless and underhanded tactics and her obsession with slander, gossip, and executing vendettas against those who unknowingly crossed her sensibilities. She, like President Wiggington, was obsessed by an invisible group of non-existent rebels who she believed were out to overthrow the credit union. Her behaviors and proclivities were as egregious and destructive as those of President Wiggington. And though she had earned an MBA while attending the University of La Verne there was nothing in her performance to attest to her education. In the end, she was just as disruptive and just as ineffective as is the President and clearly, she did not possess the abilities to formulate resolutions for the destructive caused by the President's chronic business blunders.
Beatrice Walker has left Priority One a weaker, poorer, and less effective credit union. During her infrequent moments of lucidity, she declared, “Charles [Wiggington] is not qualified to be a CEO”, “Rodger [Smock] is overpaid and useless and needs to go”, and “This is a ghetto credit union.”
Her judgmental and condemning statements were overshadowed by the fact she wasn't an astute strategist and failed time and time again, to introduce anything that produced profit, generated growth and increased membership. Her greatest disability was her lack of emotional control which fueled her frequent need to exact vengeance against people she imagined were her enemies. We can confidently state, she will not be missed.
CULPABILITY
Beatrice Walker was setup for failure by both President Wiggington and the Board of Directors. Before her arrival, the President told her he needed a COO who would help him banish enemy employees who were trying to thwart his efforts to create a bigger, stronger, and better credit union. His assertions were lies fabricated by a man who has no control over his emotions.
The fact is, this blog came into existence on January 13, 2009. Prior to it's inception, the President began slandering employees who he later terminated. He wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on failed projects. He was found guilty of sexually harassing a former employee. He borrowed $20 million from the credit union's line-of-credit. Obviously, it is Charles R. Wiggington., Sr. who is the author of the cycle of unending decay which has buffeted Priority One over the past four years.
The President found an easy pawn in Ms. Walker who was easily duped into believing that an invisible and non-existent enemy threated the President's authority. So the President and his patron, Board Chair, Diedra Harris-Brooks, hired Ms. Walker and over the next 25 months paid her an annual salary of appropriately $100,000.
On June 2, 2009, Rodger Smock issued a memorandum to all employees announcing the hiring of Ms. Walker and proclaiming her keen expertise in operations including marketing and business development. Evidently, Mr. Smock's assessment was an exaggeration. What's more, neither Human Resources or the Board of Directors conducted a background check of Ms. Walker's past employment. If they had, they would have discovered that she had been terminated by more than one prior employer.
Following Ms. Walker’s termination, President Wiggington and Rodger Smock, began telling some employees of the South Pasadena office that “more changes are coming.” Since Charles R. Wiggington, Sr. began his appointment to President on January 1, 2007, he has periodically talked about impending changes yet to date, none of his proclamations have materialized. The most notable change to occur under President Wiggington is the element of chaos and internal strife. Additionally, under President Wiggington, the credit union is now addictively reliant upon expense reductions as key to its survival.
THE 2010 ANNUAL REPORT
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Unlike the meeting conducted in May 2010, this year's attendees were employees, Directors, Supervisors and executives of the credit union. There were also no praises from Board Chair, Diedra Harris-Brooks, poured upon COO, Beatrice Walker or Loan Manager, Joseph Garcia. Just one year ago, the always obtuse Mrs. Harris-Brooks proclaimed “We (the board) have decided, we have the right management team in place” and at the time could not refrain from complimenting Ms. Walker's efforts to restore the credit union's financial positioning and Joseph Garcia who she said had “improved the working environment” and “for the changes he’s making to improve our business.” What a difference a year makes.
Attendees were also spared another long, drawn out, boring and empty address written by Training and Education Manager, Robert West, expounding to the point of ad nauseum, how Priority One is allegedly different from every other credit union in the Milky Way.
So what happened between May 2010 and May 2011 that brought an abrupt end to Mrs. Harris-Brooks' excessive flatteries of Ms. Walker and Mr. Garcia?
The 2010 Annual Report could be described as unpretentious and uninformative. The usual annual formula is again employed by the credit union's officers to try and paint a hopeful picture of the credit union's future which reduces statement to just another sham public relations move that ignores the vast amount of evidence proving faltering business and instead, points to a more positive and successful future.
MESSAGE FROM
THE BOARD CHAIRPERSON
and PRESIDENT/CEO
2011
The credit union's Monthly Income Statements and quarterly Financial Performance Reports reveal ongoing failures and depict a credit union struggling to generate sufficient profit to offset it's above-average overhead and relying on expense reductions as ma means by which to maintain high net capital.
The President and Board Chair state, “Through hard times, good times and this staggering economy we continue our commitment as “your financial fitness center” for “A Brighter Tomorrow.” The credit union ended 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the negative, hardly what you'd expect from a credit union that touts itself as a "financial fitness center."
In retrospect, it is evident that in May 2011, it had probably already been decided that Ms. Walker's employment would be terminated in the forthcoming future. This after paying her more than $100,000 a year. Despite the imprudent decision to hire her, the President and Mrs. Harris-Brooks blame to "staggering economy." We assume they're referring to the national economy and not Priority One's financial performance.
And though the national economy has impacted businesses throughout the United States, in some cases resulting in closure and in others, down-sizing, some businesses have actually thrived and grown because of the caliber of their leaders. In March 2010, the President stated, “all credit unions are losing money” a statement which was untrue and another childish ploy by the President to escape accountability for his failures.
ARE THEY SAFE?
In their address, the Chairperson and President state that they are trying “To maintain a safe and sound credit union, we increased our efforts with reducing operating expenses.”
In late 2009, an audit of the Los Angeles branch's records revealed that a former receptionist had embezzled more than $60,000 from member accounts. The credit union discovered what would turn out to be a series of thefts only after a member complained that money had been withdrawn from her CD.
The reducing of operating expenses has only impacted the salaries and benefits of non-exempt employees. In 2009, the President implemented a wage-freeze on salaries of only non-exempt personnel. The freeze remains in place to this date.
The President, the COO, the CFO, and AVP's have continued receiving annual raises so the so-called cost-cutting efforts have had absolutely no impact on their lives.
So are these examples of how the President and Mrs. Harris-Brooks are working to maintain a safe and sound credit union?
NEW FEES
The President and the Board Chair state that during the first quarter of 2011, Priority One “introduced our new telephone audio response system, “MILLIE” for the purpose of adding convenience. As is typical, the two officers intentionally fail to mention that MILLIE was purchased and implemented at the request of COO, Beatrice Walker. Shortly following her arrival on June 1, 2009, Ms. Walker informed the Board that she could resolve the credit union's member service related issues by installing a state-of-the-art call center.
And so, $70,000 were spent creating a custom call center which not only failed to resolve the credit union's service-related problems but actually exacerbated these. In late 2010, Ms. Walker, despite her growing list of failures, easily convinced the President and Board Chair that MILLIE would resolve ALL member service related issues.
However, another reason she selected MILLIE is that members who refused to utilize the options offered by the program and opted instead to obtain assistance from call center representatives, would be charged service fees. Amongst the new fees introduced by Ms. Walker was charging $5.00 to every member who requests to transfer money between their credit union accounts. In other words, if members want to speak to a live representative, they will have to pay for it. So is this another example of how Priority One serves as a member's "financial fitness center?
The President and Board Chair conclude by extending an invitation for suggestions on how the organization can improve service and it's operations. Please note they omit the name of a person or address suggestions can be mailed to.
In past posts we've revealed that correspondence from members to the Board is delivered to the main branch in South Pasadena. All mail is intercepted by the President, who decides what mail will find its way to Mrs. Harris-Brooks and which will be discarded. In late 2009, then COO, Beatrice Walker, boasted that mailed sent to the attention of the Board is always intercepted by either the President; AVP, Rodger Smock; or herself. If anyone of you wish to write to a Board Member, contact us and we will provide you with addresses that the President can't intercept.
SAME 'OL
We've actually grown weary of Supervisory Chairperson Cornelia Simmons' annual dull and misleading addresses which deliver the same old empty, hollow message. She seems oblivious to financial losses and thefts impacting the credit union and never alludes to the subject of the credit union's immense annual spending on "legal". Does Ms. Simmons use the same old template year after year to compose her address?
According to Ms. Simmons, she and the Supervisory Committee reviewed the Board's performance and concluded that it adhered to state and federal laws and credit union bylaws. Ms. Simmons is one of four officers who in 2008, voted for the reinstatement of Charles R. Wiggington, Sr. even after evidence was presented by an investigator proving the President sexually harassed a former employee. We doubt Ms. Simmons is able to differentiate between adhering to and violating state and federal laws and credit union bylaws.
Along with the President's reinstatement there is the matter of more than $60,000 embezzled from the Los Angeles branch in 2009, fraudulent financial reporting by the President and the filing of lawsuits by two former employees. Is Ms. Simmons asleep? Ms. Simmons' report brings into question her competency as the Supervisory Chair. If she's going to lie, then we suggest she work harder at sharpening her deceptive tactics.
The report from the Board's Treasurer, Joe Marchica, is actually the more perplexing of the three reports. Mr. Marchica starts by stating that the credit union “began the preceding fiscal year with a firm commitment to improve operational efficiencies and a renewed determination to lower operating costs across the board". If Mr. Marchica is being truthful then the "firm commitment" failed to hit it's mark. Monthly Income Statements and quarterly Financial Performance Reports serve to prove that in 2010, Priority One made little headway in trying to resolve its financial problems. Not only did the President implement expense reductions that primarily impact employees and members but he and the former COO, squandered hundreds of dollars on implementing new but failed products, on remodeling two branches, building a call center, and on hiring expensive consultants. Subsequently, Mr. Marchica's report is completely unreliable and inaccurate.
Mr. Marchica continues, stating, "We are happy to report that through continued efforts, we are experiencing double digit drop in operating expenses.” The alleged "double digit drop:" in operating expenses comes at a cost to employee salaries and services to members.
The Treasurer also states that “charged-off loans SEEM to have stabilized.” So have they stabilized or only SEEM to have stabilized?
Mr. Marchica concludes by stating, “We forecast incomes from all sources to exceed combined expenses” So what is the actual basis used to determine his “forecast”?
Mr. Marchica's anticipated improvement has to be based on something tangible. When making financial projections, there must be some documented basis for arriving at a conclusion. Nothing, in Mr. Marchica’s address proves the CERTAINTY of his assertions.
GOOD THINGS COME IN PAIRS
Accusations that Priority One violated federal laws are nowadays, unsurprising, at least not since 2008 when the President was found guilty of having sexually harassed a former employee.
In our last post, we wrote about how former COO, Beatrice Walker, boasted about her plans to terminate Burbank Branch Manager, Linda Nisely, and that she planned on waiting six months before hiring Mrs. Nisely's replacement. According to Ms. Walker, California state law protects a company that lays off an employee if they wait six-months before hiring a new employee to replace them.
In the second lawsuit filed by another former employee, the credit union is accused of violating several federal laws while the President allegedly entered into a smear campaign designed to impugn the employee's reputation.
THE SECOND LAWSUIT
The second lawsuit, filed this past June by a former Business Development Representative who also composed several the the credit union’s policies and procedures. The former employee
alleges that in 2010, he was informed by the President and a forensics investigator that he was being terminated because:
- He downloaded pornographic images of males using his company assigned PC
- Because he sexually harassing co-workers; and
- Because he was either the blogger, a blogger or a confederate of the blogger/bloggers
Early on the morning of June 1, 2010, the employee received a call from Human Resources "clerk", Esmeralda Sandoval, advising him to come to the main branch in South Pasadena for "a Human Resources matter."
Upon his arrival in South Pasadena, Ms. Sandoval asked him to wait while she conferred with Rodger Smock. The employee sat down and watched as Miss Sandoval entered Mr. Smock's office. Several seconds later, Miss Sandoval returned and asked that the employee continue to wait until Mr. Smock concluded an "urgent telephone call."
After about ten minutes, Miss Sandoval left the room and returned shortly afterwards and asked the employee to follow her to President Wiggington's office. Arriving at the office, Miss Sandoval knocked on the door which the President answered. The President asked the employee to sit at the conference room table located inside his office. Standing near the table was an Asian man who the President merely introduced as a "forensics consultant."
What the President didn't know was that the employee had seen the Asian consultant at the South Pasadena branch several months earlier. The consultant had visited the branch often, never signing in at the reception desk like all other visitors. He had also left the branch in the company of both Miss Sandoval and Loan Manager, Joseph Garcia. At the time, Mr. Garcia confided to some employees that he and Miss Sandoval had been asked to provide statements to the forensics consultant about who they believed was the blogger, bloggers, and confederates of the blogger/bloggers.
Despite allegedly violating policies that justified termination, the President offered the employee a severance package with a promise that prospective employers calling for references would be provided an excellent record of the employee's work performance. However, if the employee refused to sign the severance package the credit union would in the President's words, "fight any request for unemployment" and "provide bad references." So if the employee downloaded pornography which is a violation of credit union policy including a misuse of company equipment, then why would he be offered a severance package?
And if the employee sexually harassed co-workers, which is a federal offense, then why would he be offered a severance package?
And why would the employee be terminated for downloading pornography and sexually harassing co-workers if the President and some of his male executives had been known through the years, to download pornography and in the case of the President, sexually harass a former female employee?
The plot to remove the employee was fabricated by COO Beatrice Walker, and President Charles R. Wiggington, Sr. and sanctioned by Board Chair, Diedra Harris-Brooks. The three not only spread unfounded rumors about the employee, they with the help of Rodger Smock, provided the forensics investigator with false statements needed to seal the employee's termination. According to Ms. Walker, the employee's termination would bring an immediate end to this blog. Obviously, it failed to do so.
- In 2009, the President and COO ordered the implementation of increased firewalls which impeded all employees except management from accessing adult web sites and this blog.
- To solidify their case against the employee, Miss Sandoval and Mr. Garcia voluntarily provided fraudulent statements to the forensics investigator which accused the employee of authoring this blog.
- COO,Beatrice Walker and President Wiggington ordered Randy McBride, the IT Manager, to produce fictitious emails allegedly written by the former employee and sent to this blog, using his company assigned PC.
So to achieve their ends, the President and his clan, resorted to the use of slander and intimidation with the assistance of Human Resources. These, by the way, are the usual tactics employed by the President when plotting to rid the credit union of personnel.
OSTRACIZED
Beatrice Walker has been relegated to the archives by the same man she hoped to displace so that she could become President and CEO of the tattered credit union.
Her termination unlike those of most of the employees she victimized, was quiet, taking place at the end of the day on Friday, July 8, 2011. Though both she and the President denied ever having met before June 1, 2009, the date she was hired, they had actually known each other for a few years. She was introduced to the Board by the President, but the lazy and ignorant Directors never conducted a background check to confirm that Ms. Walker was as the President alleged, a master at business development, marketing, creating streams of income and Human Resources. It would have been impressive were any of his recommendations true.
In the weeks after starting her employment, Ms. Walker realized the President's many incompetencies. By late 2009, she had forged alliances with Joseph Garcia and Yvonne Boutte, both of who she promoted and who became a part of her inner sanctum. Mr. Garcia would soon reveal that Ms. Walker intended to become President and that he and Mrs. Boutte would be appointed Vice Presidents. According to Mr. Garcia and Mrs. Boutte, Charles R. Wiggington, Sr. lack professional acumen and was clearly, not what any company should desire in a President.
Ms. Walker also quickly endeared herself to Board Chair, Diedra Harris-Brooks, and in due time, found that the Board Chair was easily manipulated by promises that success was forthcoming and the credit union would soon be rebounding from the failures caused by President Wiggington.
However, like the President, Ms. Walker's promises proved to be pure hyperbole and were rarely if ever realized. What's more, her emotional issues surfaced after she tried to force a friendship with the last Valencia Branch Manager. Her efforts were rejected and the scorned and aggressive COO, launched a scathing campaign designed to destroy the Branch Manager. Not only was her campaign ruthless, it was public and President Wiggington and AVP, Rodger Smock, were fully aware of it, yet neither chose to stop it.
The wily and dishonest President did manage to solicit a letter from the Branch Manager, promising he would bring an end to Ms. Walker's tirade, but he lied. The letter provided to him accused Ms. Walker of creating a hostile working environment, of slander, of ostracizing the Branch Manager from her peers and staff, same-sex sexual harassment, and stalking. Despite the gravity of the accusations, the President under director of Board Chair, Diedra Harris-Brooks, issued a letter informing the Branch Manager that the issues she reported amounted to nothing more than a "personality conflict." It was absurd but it is the same tactic used by Mrs. Harris-Brooks in 2008 when she invalidated accusations that the President sexually harassed a former employee to nothing more than a humorous, sexualized exchange encouraged by the President's victim. To accuse Diedra Harris-Brooks of merely being corrupt is a huge understatement.
In May 2010., Beatrice Walker described the "Mexican" employees of the credit union as "members of the Mexican Mafia." According to Priority One policy, racial slurs are sufficient to warrant termination but the BLACK Board and President chose not to enforce credit union policy.
As for Ms. Walker's ouster, it proves that in life all friendships like the one between her and the President, do indeed come with a shelf life.
THE PLOT
Beatrice Walker is a woman who loved indulging in gossip and plots. We think that successfully launching plots that maimed employee reputations fed into her belief that she is a superior strategist and can target and decimate any employee who in her mind, intends to overthrow her administration.
During the week of July 4th, Ms. Walker took a few days off to rest before returning. During her absence, the President met with AVP, Rodger Smock, and Board Chair, Diedra Harris-Brooks, to discuss how to rid the credit union of Ms. Walker who had become an embarrassment. Yes, it was pure hypocrisy but the three officers have proven time and time again that they are incapable of perceiving what they are.
It was decided that she had been insubordinate, refusing to adhere to the Board's directive that before implementing campaigns, new services and new products or issuing memorandums and notices, she must first present these to either the President or Mr. Smock. According to the President, Ms. Walker approved several letters that were mailed to members without ever conferring with either him or Mr. Smock. In recent months, Ms. Walker was involved in several personal projects which included amending the language in the Junior aka Youth account application. At the time she was terminated, she had drafted and approved changes without consulting the President, Mr. Smock, the credit union's Compliance Officer, or the credit union's legal counsel.
Mrs. Harris-Brooks, President Wiggington and AVP, Rodger Smock had also recently discovered that Ms. Walker had told employees in South Pasadena that the Directors were ALL ignorant and uneducated and that both the President and Mr. Smock were unqualified to give her orders.
Of course, one can't but wonder how Ms. Walker was targeted for termination while the President who is a proven sexual harasser and who has caused the credit union losses amassing in the millions of dollars, remains employed. So the mostly Black Directors decided that Ms. Walker who is White, would be terminated.
Though not discussed during the meeting, over recent months, the Directors had become concerned about Ms. Walker's sexuality. Because it would have been illegal to terminate her her on the grounds of sexual preference, they knew they could not cite this as a reason for her planned expulsion. They also chose not to discuss their concerns with Mr. Smock who is openly gay.
The incident which provoked her termination was her refusal to adhere to the Board's directives. Ms. Walker made no secret of her disrespect or disdain for a Board who she viewed as intellectually inferior. Unfortunately, for the arrogant COO, she never thought or didn't care, that her verbalizations would be reported to the President. After all, the environment created by President Wiggington is a hotbed of gossip, intrigue and backstabbing.
So Ms. Walker returned to work on the morning of July 8, 2011, and later that day, shortly after 5 p.m., she was informed that it had been decided to terminate her employment
On Monday, July 11, 2011, a notice was posted on the Intranet, advising employees that Ms. Walker was no longer employed by the credit union. The staff at the Burbank branch cheered and AVP, Sylvia Perez, exclaimed that "there is something wrong with that woman." Look who's talking. Her departure brought a sense of relief but expect any joy over her ouster to dissipate quickly. After all, Priority One is nowadays a miserable place to work for and the President's gift is destroying business and the working environment.
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ALMOST NOT BUT NOT QUITE
Though Ms. Walker’s termination could be viewed as brutal, it was no less ruthless than what she subjected many employees to.
On her final day of employment, she was not allowed to clean out her desk and only left with her purse in hand. Over the next few days, her personal possessions were packed in boxes by AVP, Gema Pleitez, and mailed to Ms. Walker’s home in Sylmar.
During her brief employment she almost succeeded in toppling the President and sealing the terminations of aged AVP, Rodger Smock, and Training and Education Manager, Robert West.
We've discovered more information about Ms. Walker which the Board could have found if they'd chosen not to be slothful.
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"Honesty and openness are undervalued." These were qualities Ms. Walker doesn't possess. Last week Ms. Walker was contacted by Director of Project Management, Yvonne Boutte, who told some staff members that the former COO is seeking new employment but said, "it's a tough time for executives." It's actually a tough time for anyone who is unemployed. Ask the many employees of the credit union who Ms. Walker victimized and slandered.
THE BODY ISN'T EVEN COLD
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On Tuesday, July 12th, Director of Project Management, Yvonne Boutte, told employees in the Credit Resolutions Department that she hoped she would be named the next COO.
Mrs. Boutte is as unqualified to serve as COO as was Ms. Walker. Like the President and Ms. Walker, Mrs. Boutte thrives on conflict and she possesses a chronic need to constantly expound about her alleged competencies. She like many of the officers of the credit union are immersed in a need to create impressions of success rather than actually exerting the time and effort needed to achieve success.
In late 2009, Mrs. Boutte allied herself with Beatrice Walker believing that Ms. Walker might soon replace Charles R. Wiggington, Sr. as President. Ms. Walker's staff are well aware that she has moved up the ranks at the credit union as a result of pandering to Ms. Walker. They also know that she doesn't like President Wiggington who she often described as "too talkative" and "wasting my time.":
In 2008, the President chose to create an in-house collections department and as a result, hired Mrs. Boutte. Shortly after the former contracted collection agent vacated its office in the South Pasadena branch, Mrs. Walker recruited four employees who she previously worked with at another credit union. One of her new staff was Saundra Whitt who described herself as a close and trusted friend of Mrs. Boutte.
Since the start of 2011, their long-time friendship has grown noticeably strained and Mrs. Whitt who has never said anything negative about her friend and supervisor has recently described Mrs. Boutte as "arrogant" and "abusive." She is actually correct.
Having grown weary of Mrs. Boutte, Ms. Whitt provided the company with a two-week resignation notice, but Mrs. Boutte asked her to leave the day before her intended final date of employment. Evidently, their friendship had ended.
Following Mrs. Whitt's departure, Mrs. Boutte explained loudly in the presence of employees of the Credit Resolutions Department and Call Center that Mrs. Whitt had "bad energy" and that she was glad to see her go and added that she believed that if Mrs. Whitt had not resigned, she probably would have had to terminate her at sometime in the very near future.
The incident attests to Mrs. Boutte's abherrent character. She demonstrated that she has no regard for confidentiality. She chose to openly disparage her former friend. And for some reason, she felt it appropriate to discuss her relationship with Mrs. Whitt in the presence of other employees.
Since her arrival in 2008, Mrs. Boutte's so-called friendships and alliances all end and very publicly. Like her former relationship with Mrs. Whitt, Mrs. Boutte's relationships with former COO, Beatrice Walker, and Consumer Loan Manager, Joseph Garcia, ended publicly. Inarguably, Mrs. Boutte seems blind to her own "bad energy."
“THE BLOG IS THE DEVIL”
- Sylvia Perez, AVP, 2008 -
In terms of character and competencies, Sylvia Perez is not what you'd ever want in a manager unless what you seek is a person who is caustic and a deterrent to sound morale. Still, in 2008 President Wiggington said "I wish all employees were like Sylvia." Of course, this is the same President who was found guilty of sexual harassment in 2008.
We can't dispute, Mrs. Perez is loyal to the credit union. Her loyalty is obsessive and disturbing. Earlier this year she was hospitalized and according to Mrs. Perez who loves to expound on her virtues, while recuperating, she distributed new membership applications to hospital workers. We can't but wonder how many took the time to complete the applications and return them to the credit union.
However, her demeanor may not be what you would want in a so-called executive. She is abrasive, obnoxious, condescending, and annoying to both her staff and peers. She is devoid of all people skills or empathy. In 2010, her multitude of daily telephone calls to the main branch prompted the COO, Beatrice Walker to exclaim that Mrs. Perez is “unreasonably demanding”, ”annoying”, and “calls and calls and calls.” Of course, Ms. Walker was being more than a little hypocritical because in many ways, Sylvia is not so different from the former COO. Like Ms. Walker, Mrs. Perez has created a terrible reputation for herself and like Ms. Walker, is shunned by employees, representatives of the Burbank Chamber, and members who are employed by the United States Postal Service. She lacks the expertise, intelligence, and education that is required of all AVP's.
Mrs. Perez is also one of our most avid and vocal critics describing this blog as "the Devil" and often exclaiming that she knows who "the blogger is." In fact, she recently disclosed that President Wiggington confided to her and told her the blogger is a former Business De Development Representative and policy writer. May we suggest someone, anyone, sue her for defamation.
Last week, President Wiggington confided that he was called by Mrs. Perez who offered to take over some of the responsibilities previously performed by Beatrice Walker. Is Mrs. Perez vying for a promotion?
Mrs. Perez was completely unqualified to serve in the capacity of an AVP, yet in October 2006, then Vice President of Operations, Charles R. Wiggington, Sr. selected her for promotion to AVP which would become effective on January 1, 2007, the date he officially would begin what would prove his disastrous appointment to President. It is also highly unlikely the credit union can afford to replace Beatrice Walker with another officer who is paid more than $100,000 per year. In comparison to Mrs. Perez, Mrs. Boutte might actually be the lesser of two evils. We have no doubt that Ms. Perez’s efforts to possibly clinch the COO post, will be easily squashed by the cranially superior and more driven, Ms. Boutte, who may do whatever it takes to decimate any of Ms. Perez’s efforts.
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Mrs. Perez
Mrs. Walker was a woman who committed heinous acts and failed in fulfilling her assigned responsibilities. She also succeeded for a brief period in time, in manipulating the Board of Directors who in late 2009, granted her carte Blanche' and even ordered the President to refrain from interfering with her plans which the Board believed would return the credit union to the state of prosperity enjoyed in the years before Charles R. Wiggington, Sr. was appointed President. They were wrong.
Ms. Walker's arrival was orchestrated by the chronically incompetent President but soon after her arrival at the credit union, she realized that the President lacked the refinement, finesse and competency needed to lead the credit union and so, she began a campaign to prove she was more qualified than him so that he could be removed and she, be given his position. The problem was, she proved to be as incompetent as the President.
In 2009, AVP, Rodger Smock, boasted that she was going to create new lucrative streams of income. He proclaimed that she was an expert in business and loan development and knowledgeable about marketing. He was wrong.
In May 2010, the dull Board Chair, Diedra Harris-Brooks, praised Ms. Walker for her efforts which were succeeding to reverse the credit union's financial problems and she thanked Consumer Loan Officer, Joseph Garcia, for his wonderful ability to ameliorate employee morale issues. Mrs. Harris-Brooks was not only wrong but a little more than a year later, would order Ms. Walker's termination.
Ms. Walker was a symptom of what is wrong at Priority One but she is not the cause of the credit union's woes. The causes to the credit union's unending issues are President Wiggington and Board Chair, Diedra Harris-Brooks. They hired Ms. Walker and they authorized paying her more than $100,000 per year. They each gave her free reign so that she could drive out the President's imaginary enemies but they never expected Ms. Walker to turn against them or to malign them publicly.
What's more, Ms. Walker's abuses were further enabled by AVP, Rodger Smock, who over the years violates the very polices he's been appointed to oversee and enforce.
Ms. Walker also indulged in excessive spending, wasting money on a failed call center and on remodeling which she promised would increase membership and new business. She was wrong.
Ms. Walker was the President and Board Chair's monster and her failures were allowed by the two inefficient officers. Ms. Walker's departure will not serve to reverse the credit union's business or internal issues. The credit union will continue to deteriorate and the President and Board Chair will continue wasting vast sums of credit union monies. It's just who they are.
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1 – 200 of 227 Newer› Newest»Ahhhh John, thank god you're back. Keep spreading the truth buddy.
The big nose witch got only a little of what she deserved. He/she deserved much, much more. Come on bea put in your lawsuit against P1 too, you bitch.
The stupid Board let Bea get away backstabbing so many people, waste so much money that they can't afford, and she's the reason we're being sued but none of this would have happened if that useless moron Wigg hadn't run the cu into the ground and then brought he over. He still needs to be fired. And Bea should file her lawsuit that would by hysterical. And let this be awarning to all credit unin's, dont be stupid and hire Bea.
Hey Sylvia here some news! Bea isn't the only one that hurt the business. Take a long look in your mirror chola and you'll see another person that should get on her broom and go to where ever a thing like you goes.
The blog is the devil. Sylvia is the devil. Like Wigg and Smock a big trouble maker and SO barrio.
Have you seen Wigg? Do u think he'll be here in a year? He even says he has testicle cancer.
I plan on going to the hearing. I bet there is a lot of things we don't know about that'll show how dirty Wigg and Bea are.
I remember working here and thinking these people are idiots.So I quit! For a long time after, I thought it was me being judgmental, but I was right.
I'm glad I quit, best thing I ever did. I'm happy now, So many of you can do the same, instead having to take all this nonsense. The grass is greener somewhere else. There are better institutions or companies to work for. It doesn't look like it's going to get any better if Wiggle Nut is still president.
thanks for the updates John!
I don't think Bea could sue the credit union. They have enough reason to fire her. She didn’t fix what she was suppose to. She put in cuts but that didn’t help because she didn’t know how to bring in anything that made money. Remember priority pay? Neither do most people. She wasted time backstabbing and gossiping when she was supposed to do her job. She wanted Smock out because she knew that would leave Wigg with no one to support him except West who is just WEAK. Wigg is the worst. He has no problems making up stories about anyone, that’s probably why he and Bea used to be best buds. I do believe he said those things to David because Wigg is a pig with no morals. The only reason he doesn’t talk that way any more is because he’s sick. I never heard David joke about sex and I know he never hit on anyone in the office. That wasn’t him. Just like I know Kim his old secretary wasn’t any of the things Wigg said she was behind her back. He has always been a vicious gossip and if you notice at some point, he either stops talking to people or they stop talking to him. You can’t tolerate him for long unless your lonely like Sylvia who might as well put a leash on so he can walk her.
The only thing that makes Wiggington president is his title.
In our company we actually have a statement that says what our president is supposed to do. He supposed to be a leader. He's suppoed to have foresight to guide the business. And he's supposed to manage and have us grow. Wiggington is no leader and spends so much time playing, backstagging and acting stupid. He has no foresight otherwise business wouldnt have gone from great to horrible in 2 years. I read this blog and it says failure. I look at the fpr's and they say failure. I read the newsletter and annual report and they say bullsh*t.
I so agree. Most of the CU's managers are idiots! Wiggington and Smock are lazy and ignorant.
Sylvia is pathetic and acts like she drank 20 cups of coffee and popped some no doze. There are bad companies everywhere but Priority is horrible. Actually the managemenht is horrible. I never met so many dishonest people in one place. They are liars and backstabbers and that includes West. Wigg shouldn't have never been made president but the insecure board needed a black man not a good or smart one. He should been fired after all those ballots went out with the member social and acct numbers on the envelopes but the stupid board thought he was the greates. He should have been fired when he sexually harassed but dishonest good for nothing Diedra, Gathers, Saffold and Cornelia, kept him again. He should have been fired when the CU ended 09 and 10 with losses but again, the board kept him.
Bea's really gone??? Wow. Well its time to get rid of Rodger whose a big liar, backstabber, policy breaker and jackass or get rid a Wiggington whose a big liar, backstabber and policy breaker. Who to pick, who to pick?
She got paid more than $100,000 annually and spent most of her time trying to figure ways to play games and baclstab. Bea might try to get a job in soap operas before they're all cancelled though with that face.......
AS stupid as Wigg, he doesn't trust Yvonne. He remembers how she sided with Bea for a lot of months and he read on the blog how she used to ask the receptionist to call and tell her there was an important caller, just so she could get out of the meetings with Wigg. He might say he likes Sylvia, but Wigg doesn't really like anyone and he dumps people after a little while.He f*cked up when he brought Bea to P1 and he cost the cu a lot of money. He's trying to act like things are cool, but no way. This past Saturday ne went to the National Association of Retired Federal Employees and spoke. The reason he went is because this blog has said he doesn't do anything for the community & Diedra is pissed at him. He want to show everyone that he is here to stay but if you seen him, you might ask for how long? On her last day at work, Beatrice sent out emails confirming she was going to be at certain events on specific dates, something she rarely does, making me think she suspeced somethin was wrong. If she did, she was right. Now Wigg is trying to push the business but its too late because his own employees don't like him and a lot of members resd this blog and know the cu doesn't treat them like their owners.
When Suzanne was at corporate, Bea would go and see her all the time while she was training. They were like gal pals. They would take lunch together and I remember both of them arriving together to Joseph's birthday party. Next thing you know Bea is saying terrible things about her and then Suzanne disappears. I'd like to know once Wigg got the letter, what did he do to protect Suzanne? Obviously nothing and she wasnt helped by Rodger or West either. Thats the big problem at P1 they not only don't protect employees, they let them get abuses. And its not because employees are lazy or babies, its because management is wicked!!!
To Sylvia... SHUT-UP!
We are all sick of your years of complaining you don't have enough staff or that corporate is approving you to go to events; or you need better staff; or you need everybody to drop everything they're doing when you call because your needs, Miss Boyle Heights 1947, are more important than everybody elses.SHUT-UP!
I worked at the Van Nuys branch when you were the manager, and we were so happy whenever you went to Superior Industries or the Burbank lunch or anywhere, because that meant we didn't have to see or hear you. We liked even more when Neelam would leave too. You got rid of Theresa Haddad by harassing her and she knew her job better than you know yours. Why don't you think people don't answer you calls at South Pasadena? They hate hear from you. So SHUT-UP!!! Same for you Wigg. You weigh about 100 lbs but your mouth keeps yapping!
Is that really a photo of Yvonne or is that RuePaul? Nice photo of Sylvia. She needs new wife beater and bigger earrings.
What a pig. No wonder he had a stroke.
Wigg has a lot to deal nowadays.
If you work for him you know he's a coward and hides behind the Board, particulqarly Diedra. He still owes her because she brought him back when he should have been fired.
When he feels trapped he runs to Rodger or West. Rodger will always break the rules to make Wigg happy and West shares that Board thing that Black is everything. Rodger is also old. Where could he go? Plus he got fired from Superior Industries and he's been outted.
When Wigg had the stroke he ran back to P1 fast because he was afraid Bea would take his seat and he was also afraid the board might see how sick he is and make him retire.
Its time for him to go. He was useless before he got sick and he's more useless now. Plus the cu needs a leader who avoids drama and focus on business and who is not a joke to the whole industry.
Fire Wiggs, Smock and Sandoval. Bring back Jody Hurst (she was CEO of Inland Empire CU) as CEO. She had great ideas but no one would listen. Bring back some of the good employees that were terminated and turn this CU around. File lawsuits against the board and supervisory committee members and settle with them if they resign. You will have a stronger credit union and happier employees.
I don't know why the board never fired Wigg. Its suspicious. What company keeps such a horrible president? Even if he never sexually harrassed, took a member's car, and did what he did to so many employees, he caused the credit union to end two years in the negative. Who keeps a president who does that? Does he have something on Diedra or is it just that she and the board get something by having him remain president.
And what is that Smock really does? You have West supposedly over HR and he supposedly is helped by uneducated and unpresentable, Esmeralda but there is no longer a need for Smock. So why is he there getting paid more that $115,000 a year. Does Wigg keep him because without him he would only have a handfull of supporters?
Jody is so knowledgeable but Wigg didn't use what she offered because he knows nothing about doing what's good for a business.
The credit union had Suzanne who was a wonderful Branch Mgr and he let Bea abuse her which makes him party to the abuse she went through. Some members of the Board should be named in a lawsuit. They should be forced to be accountable and explain why they acted negligibly.
I also overheard Adriana is bad mouthing Suzanna in the community with existing members. What is she trying to get out of that not sure? Dana the black ugly gorilla and the wannabe miss universe Judith Barajas bad mouth her and Nora a lot. They seemed to like Sylvia though…. I told Suzanna about them talking Shi*%$% but she did not believe me.
I bet those useless bitches are happy eating each other from the same plate. Gosh forgive me but those women are so ugly yuck!! And to make matters worse they think they are all that. Have they seemed themselves in the mirror? It’s like looking a whole bunch of walking POTATOES WITH HEELS. As a man forget it! Like Joseph I liked Suzanna a lot but I did not stand a chance with her. I know Joseph was in love with her and Bea Walker knew it. Todas son barrio Corrientes CHOLAS’ like SYLVIA and BEA. Suzanne, Darlene Amber and Teresa did not belong there con esas vacas de barrio. I am so glad we are all out there.
I saw the numbers for June and P1 is doing great!! But I work there and business down, down, down. How could the numbers be anything but bad unless Wigg is having Saeid play with the figures just like Bea had him do. Let me tell you, our loans are down all the way around if it wasn't for selling some foreclosures, we'd be so bad off. Delinquences are high and a lot of the new memberships we get don't pass chexsystems, so what's up? I don't trust Wigg and now that he got rid of his gal pal, Bea, Saeid will probaboly do ANYTHING to keep his job.
If Adriana is talking shit about Suzanna, she oughtta shutup because Suzanne treated her good and trained her. She wouldn't have the knowledge she has if it wasn't for Suzanna. What a fat ungrateful cow. Dana is well known backstabber. She used to work at B of A where she was known as a troublemaker. They won't ever hire her back, even though she'd love to leave P1 right now, if she could. Judith is insipid. Bea couldn't stand her personality but then look whose talking. She was treated too well by Dane and by Suzanne and then she turned around and started talking her usual chola trash. She and Dana did the same thing to Nora who was one of the best employees the credit union ever had. And Wigg and Missy Smock didn't protect either woman. Dana and Sylvia LOVE Sylvia because when she was at Valencia she treated them really nice so that they could turn against Suzanne while she was away on sick leave. Syvlia was trying to get in good with Bea but Bea wasn't attracted to her... as a co-worker of course. As for Joseph, I didn't think he was in love with anyone but himself and maybe his right hand.
Why is Amber talking about Suzanne? I mean, is she obsesseed like Bea Walker was/is?
Amber isn't talking about Susanna, it Adriana is. Amber is working for the same company where Susanna works.
What's wrong with Adrianna? Too much time on her hands, maybe? Who does she think she is, Wiggington?
Anonymous wrote: Dana and Sylvia LOVE Sylvia because when she was at Valencia she treated them really nice so that they could turn against Suzanne while she was away on sick leave.
I think you may mean Dana and Judith. Those two were such ring leaders when Suzanna went on medical leave. Bea would call them everyday and Dana would email Bea. If you know Bea, she doesn't answer emails but she did then because she was out to get Suzanne. Only thing is, Suzanne's been gone for 8 or 9 months, so why is Adrianna talking about her plus what is she saying because maybe Suzanne can sue her ass and the credit union's?
This is an example of what Wiggington has done to the credit union. Every company has backstabbers but at P1 they go the extra mile to drive the knife in your back. Thank you Wiggington your the bestest. Oh, and thank big, old fat Smock cause none of this would be possible without him.
Dana the black ugly gorilla and the wannabe miss universe Judith Barajas bad mouth her and Nora a lot.
Well if Dana is a gorilla then it explains a lot except the backstabbing because apes don't backstab,but she could be a hybrid. And I never knew Judith Barajas aspired to be Miss Universe Didn't she win the Miss Uranus title just a few years ago? You go girl, in life you an be anything you set your mind on. Look at the "girls" on RuPaul's Drag Race. You can do it.
Sexual harassers, gorillas, beauty queens..... see where I'm going with this?
Talking about others is just he kind of place Wiggington and HR created. Business is down which should be the focus but they're all too busy talking about each other and ex-employees.
I can't believe Bea got fired. Really, thats one person that deserved getting the boot but I don't believe Bea was fired just because she refuse to do what the board told her and get Wigg's permission before she sent out letters or brought in some new product. Just last year I sat in the annual meeting and listened to Diedra say that Bea and Joseph and the whole management team were doing a great job. And it makes no sense that they fired her for sending out letters with wrong information. Remember the ballots Wigg sent out with member account numbers and SSN's printed on the envelopes? How about when Wiggington refused to open a new branch to replace Worldway and he ignored all those calls from the Airport PO Manager to open a new branch in the Airport PO? The manager called Diedra and threatened to give the space to another credit union and what do you know, within 2 Wigg installs a new branch at the Airport PO. Those were serious enough to fire him but he's still there.
If Bea's gone then who's gonna fire Smock, Suzanne or take over the president's job. LOL.
No one misses Bea. She was the worst. What she did to so many people is awful but Bea didn't make Charles, Rodger, or Sylvia act the way they do. They were that way before she ever showed up. Look at Charles. He looks horrible. He knows what he's done but it hasn't changed him because he's still as evil as he ever has been. Smock looks tired, so fat and old. Sylvia lost hair, she dresses sloppy, can't sleep, and her skin broke out. She has had so many health problems and she blames Bea but if she looks in the mirror she'll see the cause of all her problems.
John, you might just be right. I remember how Sylvia told us when Susanna was on medical leave, that we are not allowed to talk to anyone who is on leave or pto but during her 3 week vacations she called Burbank and South Pasadena almost every day and she showed up to a couple of events. Now that Bea's outta the picture she's trying to show Wiggington that she'll back him up but what she really wants is to move over to the main branch. She gets back from vacation on Monday but she already said she'll be working out of South Pasadena on Monday and Tuesday doing what Bea used to do. What did Bea do? She sucked as a COO and you know that Sylvia is uneducated, so what is it she's supposed to do?
Does this company have 1 good manager? Its like everyone's rejects show up at P1 and then everyone takes what ever is left of the pie.
Downloading porn? Are you sure they didn’t scan Smock’s or Wiggington’s computers? Wiggington, Smock, and x-COO Bea Walker, liked to make up stories to get rid of people. That’s how they got rid of so many people. That’s how Sylvia got rid of a Carol and the David, x-manager of Van Nuys and Smock helped her. They were both GREAT employees but Wigg didn’t like the BDR so Sylvia helped fire her by making up a stories that they didn’t follow policy. Really? Rodger has violated more policy and has always helped management with their lies to fire people. The x-branch manger found out that for years, Sylvia and her people weren’t following banking procedure and after he spoke to her about it, she fired him by makin up lies. When Wigg got jealous because Kim was close to Clayton who he was jealous of and Anwar, he told Frank the owner of the old collection company, that Clayton, Kim and Anwar approved and funding some loans in Van Nuys. How did Kim who worked in Van Nuys or Clayton who worked in collections or Anwar who was a temp, do that? They couldn’t. What happened was the assistant branch manager Neelam approved 5 bad loans. She was the only one that could approve them but she was friends with Sylvia and Wiggington. So they put the blame on Anwar who was a temp and fired him. Clayton quite later and moved out of state and Kim got promoted to Los Angeles. After she left, Wiggington would call Los Angeles several times a week and ask Lynnette questions about Kim. Lynnette even told people in the office that she thought Wiggington was in love with Kim. After he got rid of Kim, she filed sexual harassment charges. That’s how they do things at P1. That’s how they got rid of Marc, Dane, Theresa, Kim H., David Q., and that’s how they got rid of a lot of other people. George the old BDR filed a lot a letters with HR about how Sylvia was harassing him but Smock swept it under the carpet because he’s a con artist.
I remember George writing saying Rodger wasnt replying to his letters or calls. George even showed up at Rodger's office without warning and he said Rodger always looked liked he didn't want to deal with him. That's the problem Rodger doesn't deal with anything. He doesn't have what it takes what he's supposed to. Ever see HIS employee handbook? He wrote it and its horrible. The entire thing is a mess like everything he does. Maybe that's why members don't read his newsletter because its boring.
Wigg, Diedra, and Rodger plan on defending themselves against Linda by getting employees and ex-employees to say that Linda was a horrible branch manager and that they couldn't afford to keep her because they were losing money.
When they got rid of Linda, big mouth Sylvia said Linda wasn't going out and bringing in new business but neither was Joseph, Gema or Lynnette. Sylvia goes out into the field because she's an AVP who thinks she's a BDR but is really nothing more than the Burbank branch mgr. Plus if they fired Linda for not doing her work OR because they couldn't afford her then whey did they hire Bea Walker who made more than $100,000 a year and then fire her 2 years later? Why did they keep Wigg when the cu has lost money in 2009 and 2010? Why do they keep West when they don't need a training manager since he hasn't trained in ages. Why didn't they fire useless, lazy Rodger? How about Joseph? He was made loan manager in 2010 by Bea and he had no experience. By 2011, they took the call center from him and real estate loan dept. So how good is he at his job and why do they keep him? If they want employees or ex-employees to testify, they better explain why there have been so many complaints about Sylvia for years and years, and still they keep her. It couldn't be that she's great at her job because the Burbank branch is hers and its the worst performing office of all the branches.
Its been said a lot- throw out all of management and the board and start all over.
Anonymous said...
Fire Wiggs, Smock and Sandoval. Bring back Jody Hurst (she was CEO of Inland Empire CU) as CEO. She had great ideas but no one would listen. Bring back some of the good employees that were terminated and turn this CU around. File lawsuits against the board and supervisory committee members and settle with them if they resign. You will have a stronger credit union and happier employees.
That would be too much like right and P1 would never do anything right.
Its so mind boogling how many great employees have left or been gotten rid of! David, Thressa, Dane, Suzanna, Marc, both Kims, its really too bad. I did see Kim H. the other day and she looked beautiful. She said she was going to an entertainment event. Kim has slimmed down alot I mean alot and she had on false eyelashes and glitter eye shadow to go with the glitter roses in her hair. You go Kim, I think you leaving this place has worked for you cause you are looking hott now.
That picture of Yvonne is so ugly, tell RuPaul one of his drag queens go out the pen.
"That picture of Yvonne is so ugly, tell RuPaul one of his drag queens go out the pen."
And that's a good pic. You should see the ones of Rodger, West, and Wigg. Aye chihuahua, que paso? Uno casi no camina pero no para de hablar. El otro se parece ha Erkle. Y el otro se pone mas panzon, mas viejo y mas horrible cada dia. And Kim was and is beautiful. Its too bad ugly Wiggington and just as ugly Bea, are both nuts and got rid of someone that was the opposite of them: good for the credit union.
Kim was phenomenal! Bitter Bea Walker and filth mouth, Charles Wiggington, couldn't hold a candle to her. Neither could policy breaker, Rodger Smock, or two-faced West. She was a good worker, trustworthy and had a wonderful personality. The only problem was she ended up working with Shrek and Freddie Kuger. The only reason those 2 freaks bad mouthed her is because she had something those two will never have. No one misses Bea and everybody would be happier if Wigg and Smock left and bought themselves a condo in Palm Springs.
Kim was so nice, if there was ever a problem she always did her best to help out. I never saw Kim turn down a problem, I saw her calm down many a member. We all knew wigg never wanted to deal with members but Kim always would help a member. One member wanted to take her out for lunch he was so happy with her help.
Funny how someone like Kim and a lot of hard working and SMART employees could get fired because Wigg and Bea forgot to take their meds and Rodger is a rule breaking whore. Kim was too patient. A lot of us heard how he talked to her and he even made her cry more than once. He wrote her up twice and threatened to fire her and Bea started looking for reasons to try and get her in trouble. Geez, where's Bea now days? Oh, yeah unemployed like the people she screwed over. Wigg used to talk about Kim when he was out in the field, saying he was going to teach her a lesson and she didn't look like what he wanted in an assistant. I'm pretty sure he doesn't look like what anyone would want in a boss, particularly now days. When her birthday came, he got so jealous when a lot of us bought her gifts. Except for Sylvia and Smock who buy him things for his birthdays, most employees only donated a little bit of money because he was the president not because they wanted to. In fact most times, hardly anybody would give because employees don't like him or his big mouth. Wigg is the type of boss/idiot who wants you to read his mind and mood swings. Thing is no one can read his mind or take his mood swings not to mention his talking about the world's most stupid things. Based on what I see, I think he won't be talking about sex no more, not with that bum leg and arm. At P1, idiots like Wigg, Smock, West, Esmeralda, Gema, Sylvia, and a lot of others stay because they're not a threat to the president. He thinks he's smarter than them and guess what, he is. I am so glad to hear Kim looks and is doing great. She deserves that and more. As for Wigg, Smock, and Bea, they'll get their's and let's hope it all comes out in court so that there's a record of what they've done.
He shouldn't have been talking about sex before he got sick. It was against policy plus with his face, bad breath, body odor, and big belly and the way he played with his b*lls in front of employees, no one believed he was hitting anything except his face.
Good for Kim H. you never heard Kim say one bad word about Wiggy. She had every right to but she didn't so who's the better person? And no one ever believed anything he said about her, it was all we could do to not roll our eyes in disgust.
Kim really is someone you want as an assistant or more. She took a lot from Wigg and Bea.
Charles and Bea ordered Rodger Smock to transfer Kim from the assistant to the President desk to the reception desk at the front office. Smock lied to her and said it was temporary until the could cross train Irma on Kim's desk. Irma who has a big mouth, is bossy, uneducated, and leaving important documents lying around copiers, still works at Kim's old desk. In the meantime, in 2010, Bea had Rodger and Esmeralda get rid of Kim. After Kim left the office, Bea told Yvonne and Wiggingotn that now the blog would stop. Obviously since its still around, Kim was leaking info to the blog and how would hs have done that anyway, if she was the receptionist for her last year with no access to manager info?
What happened is that Bea and Wigg are retards and Smock is a dog, who will roll-over for them so he can keep his job. After all, he's got that boy to support living at his house. I think out of all of them, Rodger is the most sickening and repulsive because he pretends to be everyone's friend and he likes to let out that grandma laugh, but he'll help them put the knife in your back and twist the blade. Theres a lot of ex-employees who would be happy to go to court and testify about how he broke the rules and backstabbed them.
A lot of employees took a lot from Wiggington. As stupid as he is, he knows he's an SOB. Thats why he ordered all those cameras installed outside his office. He said said he would be able to see someone coming over with a gun. He is so stupid he really believes someone would risk going to prison for a foul mouth like him.
I also overheard Adriana is bad mouthing Suzanna in the community with existing members.
Why is an employee slandering her former boss? Adrianna works out of the SC mail distr ctr on Franklin where they only members who can go in are postal workers and usually all they get at that office are employees of the distri ctr. Is this what she does in her dead time, talk about an ex-employee? Someone should tell Mr Tapia the post master about how the CU employees are spending their time. He has been nice for years to give P1 that space but maybe its time they be called on some of what they do.
Here's a heads up.
Last 2 years, Esmeralda has asked employees if they know who was saying things about the credit union and if they know whose leaking info to the blog. She also said the blog is a lie (she must be related to Sylvia because they’re both cholas) and she said the writers are people who want to see priority one fail. She even got pissed a few times and said Bea Walker was working hard to make everything better (yeah, for herself). She stopped saying management was innocent when you guys published that letter from Diedra to Wiggington about how he sexually harassed Kim. I wonder what she has to say about how great Bea is doing considering Bea got fired for not doing her job. Esmeralda is as stupid as they come. She thinks her ignorant opinion speaks for everyone. You could slap that old, fat chola in the face with documents showing what Wiggington, Smock, and Bea have done but home girl is stuck on real stupid. She’s also trying to chum up to ex-employees to see if they can give her some info about what employees are talking bad about the credit union. If she calls you, play her or just hang up. 1 x-employee told me that a lot of employees got fired because of what she told Rodger. Rodger would run to Wiggington and Bea and then the people would get fired.
Every ex-employee that was fired due to their lies and policy breaking should sue. I will be seeking legal advice due to the fact they also lied about me and thought that everything would go away i don't think so. So stay tuned.
Does anyone have a copy of the letter Susanna sent about Bea? It would be really interesting to see what POCU let Bea get away with against Susanna.
Esmeralda has never been what she says she is. People used to say she was good at guarding confidentiality, but she ran to management and told them about what employees were saying things about the company. Guess she forgot there's something called freedom of expression without fear of retaliation. She tells you she's married but she's been shacking up with her boyfriend for years. She says she's a Christian but like Sylvia, she has no idea the responsibility that comes with being one. When management targeted any employee she took their side because she has no sense of morals or ethics. She's two faced because has no identity. Rodger and West are the same. At least Wiggington knows he's evil and worthless and lives up to what he is.
West and Esmeralda = FAKE ASS CHRISTIANS, need I say more?
I was looking at their performance report and would like to see the proof they are still in the black. I found 2 sites that say they have 6 branches and they're including Santa Clarita, but they don't tell you that its only open to postal employees. Non-postal can't get in there. And why is that when you go through the reports for more than a year, they still show more than 30,000 members. I want to see proof otherwise thats a lie like they're worth $172 million. These people are bold in your face liars. I'm surprised someone like West would think thats okay since its lying and Mr. Religious should be bothered.
PS: West and Esmeralda and SYLVIA PEREZ = FAKE ASS CHRISTIANS. I think Lynnette talks about Jesus too though she was living and might still be living with that guy from collections. There all hypocrites or snakes.
As probably most of you know, we have been told that we are going to start charging members for services that used to be free. We were told that we will charge $5 every time a member calls to request their balance or asks to transfer money between their credit union accounts. SO WHY HAVE A CALL CENTER? When Bea opened the call center she said it would be a one stop center but she never said it would cost members. We're supposed to be helping members who call in for whatever reason and at no cost. If you're going to charge to transfer money or give a person their balance, then close the call center! There are banks who don’t charge when you call and ask for your balance or to transfer money, but we, a financial fitness center, are charging.
Yvonne says charges are good and will teach members to use MILLIE. She says that’ll stop members from calling the call center. AGAIN, IF YOU DON'T WANT MEMBERS TO CALL THEN WHY HAVE A CALL CENTER? It should really be called a "We aren't well trained center." Yvonne also said members better learn to use MILLIE or online banking if they don't want to be charged. Just in case it didn’t occur to anyone, P1 has the best member service.
West is a failed t.v. preacher, fake, fake, fake.
I was told by one board member about some of what was in the letter about Bea. The complaint was enough for Wigg to knock her on her ass but the board was too scared that Bea cold sue, so they only let Wigg take away HR from her. They got advice from the attorneys and started cuttinb back her power and then waited to see if she'd screw up. She didn't get canned just because she didn't do what the board said or because everything she did failed, they read the blog and started to look at her history with other employers which they should of done before they hired her.They know they screwed up. Wigg was never interested in the branch manager or her complaints about Bea. All he wanted was her letter to use against Bea. He got what he wanted and screwed over the branch manager and Bea.
Hey Dana, how did your second interview go? Did you tell Sylvia you're looking for a job? Remember, how Amber told Sylvia she was looking for new employment? Or are you afraid that Sylvia might treat you the way she, you, Judith, and Adrianna treated Amber after she gave notice she was leaving? Also heard you didn't get the job at AVFCU. If anyone has a job opening at a bank or credit union, give Dana a call at the Burbank branch cause she wants out of P1 faster than you can say, "Bea who?".
It does seem strange they would fire Bea. Yes, she was horrible and yes she did nothing good but neither has Wiggington. How did the board decide that she was worse than Wiggington and what did she do that out did everything he's done? It does seem suspicious that she might have been fired because she disobeyed the board when Wiggington has not done what he's supposed to and he hasn't done what's good for the members and he's definitely broken laws.
West is a black Mr. Rodgers, just creepy.
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It does seem strange they would fire Bea. Yes, she was horrible and yes she did nothing good but neither has Wiggington. How did the board decide that she was worse than Wiggington and what did she do that out did everything he's done? It does seem suspicious that she might have been fired because she disobeyed the board when Wiggington has not done what he's supposed to and he hasn't done what's good for the members and he's definitely broken laws.
The answer can be founded in 5 words: THE BOARD'S BLACK, WIGG'S BLACK.
Color would never be an issue if Gather, Saffold, and Irving had never said they ever picked Wiggington because the credit union needed a black ceo. Even with everything he's done, no one would have the balls to even suggest they're racists but the 3board members said it loud and clear in 2006 when they picked Wiggington to be ceo. It was the one a the stupidest things they ever said and its come back to bite them. Plus if the board was all latinpo and they said what the credit union needed a latino ceo, Diedra, Saffold, Gathers and Irving would have yelled racism. Same thing would have happened if the board was also asian or white.
Remember when Robert West got up at the all staff meeting at Alhambra Court and said the bloggers were haters and then read from the Bible. Most employees didn't know what he read meant, it didn't make sense. I'm pretty sure Wiggington the devil didn't know either. It was so embarrasing. After that, most of us lost all respect for West. He played the fool. Right after that big coward Wiggington ran up and put his right arm around him (he could do that back then) and pressed his lips to Mr West's ears and whispered something. The sexual harasser felt like he was proteced by the cu's biggest nerd. They should move in with Smock and open a coffee shop in West Hollywood.
You're right, West is Urkle growed up, ugh.
No doubt, there's something suspicious about why they keep Wigg. He's the worst on all levels but the board has let him fire good and honest employees while they keep this moron. I wonder if he's got something on Diedra because it makes no sense he's still there.
I so agree. Colore would never be an issue if SOME board members hadn't said they picked Wiggington because the credit union needed a Black president. The postal carriers who opened P1 were all white. And through the years, P1 only had white presidents. Suddenly Diedra shows up and they have to have a black man. Couldn't have been an asian or latino and couldn't been one that was smart and not ghetto. Had to be a man that smacks his mouth, has a filthy mouth, is lazy, and thinks his life is so interesting that everyone wants to hear about his cars, family, and sex life. The important thing is that he's black. See what happens when you pick anyone by skin color instead of smarts?
I had the experience of working with Charles right after he became president. I remember one meeting in which he had only men in his office to discuss problems with the business. He cussed up a storm, saying "I don't give f*ck how you do it, do it!", "f*ck them", and so and so on. One thing he can never do is get respect. He thought yelling, cussing, putting you down and telling you who on the staff he was going "to get" showed his power and it sort of did, but what it didn't do was get him respect. There's a more horrible side of Charles that is not even on this blog. The man is the worst and the man has no scruples. He is a nightmare and you would never wish him on any business. He damages everything he touches and I don't think anyone has ever left the credit union and said, "I really am going to miss Charles."
I bet this board thinks OJ is innocent and was set up by white folks so is it really a suprise that they are sticking with Wiggy?
Diedra picked Charles because she can control him, and that's it. She wants to be top dog, althought she does not know how to run a credit union ,she can run Wigg.
they all kow Mr. Harris brought that credit uinion from 92mm to 172mm but they will not bring him back because they are too dumb and want control.Diedra even interview someone who she said was better than Wigg but pick wigg Why? she can control him and run the place like she is doing now.
Diedra is useless. That bio that came with the ballots was really impressive. She went to University of Phoenix and she has computer skills that made P1 better, according to her bio.
She was stupid enough to reinstate Wigg. She was stupid enough to approve borrowing $20 million in 2008 which P1 never did when Mr Harris was CEO. She was stupid enough to get the board to hire Bea Walker as COO. She was stupid enough to go along with the cut backs. She is the invisible CEO even though she knows as much about a CEO as Bea knew about being a COO. And Mr. Harris may have built the CU from $92 million to $172 million, but Diedra and Wigg will get it from $172 million back down to $92 million. The board did interview people who were qualified to be CEO but Gathers let it out, that they had already decided to hire Wigg even before they interviewed the other candidates. They just went through the motions because he was their "boy." Good choice, Diedra.
Saffold used to say OJ was innocent and setup by the "White man." In fact old Virginia Medford at the LA office says OJ is innocent and that he was setup by drug dealers who were trying to collect on money Nicole owed them. Yup, evidence, like sexual harassment evidence, means nothing to a lot of "old" employees and board members.
Who you going to pick for P1's next CEO Diedra? West? That's going work out just great, we can all get on our knees for West's daily prayer for more money and members. Or how about Irma? she's loud, bossy and don't give a rats ass about members, just like yo 'boy' Wiggs. Wow you really are as dumb as they say.
Hey how about Yvonne? she's black and as big as a man. She's failed at everything she's tried to do a the cu. Hell she's a shoo in for CEO and once she's in she can bring back Bea cause I sure their break up isn't forever. Bea should go to a tanning salon and with that nose and hair maybe pass for black. Think how happy Bea would be with Yvonne, oh the making up those could do (eek). The Board and Sup. Comm. is so old and stupid they won't know the difference. Throw in a few 'you go girl' and 'No you did n' and they'll think she's one of 'da crew'.
Well definitely you won't pick Rodger because he's a white, more sissy version of Wigg (if that is even possible). You wouldn't pick Irma because the girl is as dumb as an old shoe but she's too dumb to know it. You wouldn't pick Diedra because as a board member she can't be CEO plus she's already CEO.
You wouldn't pick West because he's not as smart as he thinks, he's two-faced, sponges off people and a "wolf in lambs clothes."
Yvonne already acts like she's CEO and she would tell ya she's got what it takes to lead P1..... into the toilet. Well, its sort of already in the toilet so all Yvonne has to do is flush it.
And Yvonne did let the word out that she and Mr. Bea weren't friends no more but then she contacted Bea right after they fired her, so should we believe Yvonne? And sure collections are way up but Wigg is president and P1is not making money plus he promoted Liz and Aaron to AVP and they both got fired. And he promoted Sylvia and she's a pest. And he brought Bea in, so maybe Yvonne could be the next CEO.
And ya, you could throw in a
few 'you go girl' and 'No you did n' and "what you say Willis" and the board and supervisory committee would probably fall for it.
Missy Rodger serves his purpose as a 'token' quite well.
Wigg likes to talk that ghetto talk and makes sure he represents but he's married to a white woman and he sure goes outta his way to get the attention of latinas.
Missy Rodger? Is he related to Mr. Rogers?
What I want to know is why we are still reporting we have more than 30,000 members with the credit union? When they closed Redlands, a lot of members left the credit union. A huge number left when they shut Valencia and lately a lot of postal employees are leaving, some because they are accepting the postal service offer to retire early and otheres because they hate the service we offer. If all of these groups have left, how come the credit union’s membership shows MORE people than before all these accounts closed?
Yvonne always had a plan to move up. Would a been more impressive if she was working at Chase Manhattan, but home girl never would made it there or at a better CU with better educated people. When she got to P1 she pretended to be friends with Wigg but like everyone who works with Wiggington for too long, she couldn't stand his big mouth. That all changed when Bea showed up. Bea made promises to promote her and reward her for her supposed hard work and talent and promised her an executive position when she took over P1. She joinedd Joseph and both of them thought Bea would get rid of Wiggington and become president, but Yvonne started to notice that Bea was a big mouth, backstabbing idiot. Yvonne also noticed early on that Joseph knows nothing about loans plus they got into a couple of arguments and she told people about his bad temper. She also turned out to be a little mental. When the call center people started playing music on their cu radios, she would yell that she couldnt concentrate or think. Some of them wanted to work at the call center but after seeing Yvonne weird behavior, asked not to transfer to the call center. Before she and Bea had their supposed breakup, she helped Bea target people who Yvonne thought were against the credit union and were the blogger. She hated when people started to write about her "relationship" with Bea and she hated when people thought they might be a couple. But that was her fault. She would secretly meet Bea in the parking lot to talk or to go to lunch or she wold meet Bea on the streets around the CU. Bea didn't care what people said because Yvonne was her "buddy girl." Did you know on weekends they would meet in Santa Clarita to go to lunch or shop and sometimes Yvonne would stay at Bea's house. Didn't they get enough of each other, Monday-Friday?
Maybe the lesson here is management should stop, doing things that make them look guilty. Don't want to be known as a sexual harasser, stop talking about your penis. Don't want people to think your a lesbian, stop the secret meetings around the company with other women. Don't want people to think you break policy, then act like the SVP of HR and do your job. I don't what to say about Diedra, because the bitch serves no purpose. Gathers should move to a home, Saffold should accept no future for him as an attorney, and congratulations to Cornelia on her new movie, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."
It is Yvonne and Bea's fault that all those rumors went around. People probably jumped to conclusion because these two way over 40 year old women were always together in each other's offices, on the bridge, in the lounge room and in the employee patio. It happened a lot of times, every day. When rumors spread about them, they started to leave the building separately but would meet downstairs in the parking lot or somehwere around the credit union.
A lot of times employees going to lunch would see them standing out on La France or Marengo talking, then they'd come back to the office. They'd be gone for maybe 10to 15 minutes. What was so important that they couldn't discuss it at the office? They were both way too old to be acting like they were in junior high.
I visted a post office yesterday to pick up some mail . One of the postal workers said that her sister account was rip-off for 17,000.00 by priority one she said that place was a nightmare. That's no surprised because everbody knows how priority one let this one employee rip a member off for over 60,000.00 and nothing was ever done why would anyone trust this company with their money. Lynnette Fortson have been ripping this company off for years and Charles knows that. She knew that this girl was ripping the company off because she let her get away with whatever she wanted too . Lynnette is Ghetto and lazy and she has a lot of issue with people that knows more than she do which is quat she feeds off of other people work trust me i know she's the worst manager i have ever work for so fake and just plain dumb. Most of the members at the lapdc office hates Lynnette they just put up with her because she's the only person there if they replaced her that branch would see a lot of growth trust me Charles i know.
Hey Yvonne don't the black community call what you and Bea were doing 'On the down low?' Boyfriend stand up and be the proud black man you are. Wigg got his white woman and you have or had yours.
I agree with South Central Nightmare. Priority One as a whole is a mess but there are some offices that have more problems like the Los Angeles branch. For years, Lynnette was the branch manager and she sat at the desk located just behind the receptionist. After she got promoted to AVP, she still sat at the same desk and she won't move out of it because she doesn't want P1 to hire a new branch manager. She is lazy. About three years ago they went through her desk while she was on vacation and they found so much unopened mail,even checks members had sent in to be deposit. No one knew the mail was in her desk and some of those members had to resend their checks, thinking the original ones got lost in the mail. Nope, they were in Lynnette's desk. She never has trained her staff because she doesn't know what she's doing. That's why they took Cathy and Virginia off loan processing because auditors found they made mistakes which they wouldn't have, if Lynnette knew what she was doing. Janae wouldn't have made off with $60,000 if Lynnette was following procedure. Worse yet, when the cu discovered that they had been robbed, Wiggington and Walker said they would only return money to accounts where a member filed a claim which meant that they did not return money for deceased members. Cathy knew way more than Lynette and members liked her, but Lynnette was jealous and wouldn't promote her and bad mouthed her. When Cathy and Virginia got in that argument they should have fired Virginia because she started the argument but they didn't because she's Lynnette's friend. But the decision not to prosecute Jenae is all Charles Wiggington. He has allowed her to get away with embezzlement and he let other employee go even though they didn't rob the credit union. You can throw in Rodger, because as HR he knows that what Charles did is illegal and wrong.
Why would Charles or Diedra ever try to prosecute an employee who stole $60,000 when Diedra and the board covered up for Charles when he sexually harassed? He broke federal law, shouldn't he have been fired or prosecuted? And what about when took the member's car? Shouldn't he have been fired? What about when Bea slandered all those employees and made the comment about Mexicans? The cu policy says thats grounds for termination and it is illegal. And why did Charles promote Liz, even when her checking account she was kiting?
Someone please answer a question, Is P1 now a bank or are you going to become a bank? just got my new fees if I call and speak to someone I am going to get charged?
Was your CEO a former Banker?
Well the hell all thses new Fees
might as well go to Chase
When Wigg became Pres he wanted to thin out the postal workers and bring in more business owners, just to pump up the cu's image. He wanted to charge fees because that't the way they used to do it at "Security bank" where he used to work. Funny, how Security doesn't exist anymore and P1 is failing. Those charges are ridiculous! Homeboy has to do that because he's sure not getting enuff new business so somebody's got to pay and its gonna be the members.
ps: Chase doesn't charge in to get your balance or transfer money.
"Why would Charles or Diedra ever try to prosecute an employee who stole $60,000..."
They don't obey law or policy. They don't know anything about how business works or what their members want. That's why consumer loans are way down, delinquencies way high, and why they think charging fees is the answer to all the problems they create. They are not wonderful enough to throw out a bunch a new charges when they're business sucks. If their call center stinks, do you think Millie goes to solve the problem with service? Close your accounts and find a better bank or credit union. they are out and they'll treat you like you're their first priority.
Millie ? What are we back on the farm? I also saw the new fee rates.
so now i will be forced to close out some accounts at P1.
Members. You got the New Schedule of Fees! Read it because it affects you! Here are some of Priority One’s new charges:
Excessive Withdrawal Fee= $10 (if more than 3 withdrawals per month and waived for express teller, ATM, or if share (savings account) balance = $1000).
They are not clear at all but if you visit a branch more than 3 times in a month to take out money, you will be charged $10. That’s hefty.
Transfer/payments with a live agent will cost $5 (so if you only have $10 in your account and you use $5 of it to make a payment, you will be charged $5). Winning with money?
Third-party check fee… $5 (waived in shared (savings account) balance = $1000) They add, “per withdrawl fee = $10. Huh?
Money market account balance that falls below $1000 is charged $15. I thought that a money market is supposed to maintain a $1000 minimum and is closed if you fall below?
FREE BILL PAY will cost you $5 if “inactive or non-use”. Guess its not really FREE, is it?
Read the Schedule. If you lost it, you can go to www.priorityone.org.
Select Checking & Savings tab
At the bottom left, choose the Disclosures link
On the right, pick Schedule of Fees.
Useless Robert West got promoted to Director of Employee Services and even more useless, Esmeralda Sandoval, got to promoted to Manager of Employee Services. Does anyone know what those titles mean? According to super useless Rodger Smock, “employee services encompansses key competencies of human resrouces and education functions, i.e. staffing, education, employee engagement and special services. This is a NEW concept which will allow Priority 1 to keep pace with the chaning social environement within the word “we live in and world.”Rodger also says West and Esmeralda will be accepting new responsibilties and new challenges.”
Aside from sounding like BS, if West, Esmeralda, Smock, and Wiggington are incompetents and big embarrassments, how are they supposed to carry out new responsibilities when they already can’t carry out the responsibilities of the “key competencies of HR.” Bet they got a raise while people who actually work are still under the wage freeze. This company is so f*cked up they think adding some new titles to people who are horrible employees will make things better.
West and Esmeralda are nothing but lap dogs for management. They are being paid for questioning nothing and just going with the flow. Even if that means F'king staff over.
West was a total snooze as a trainer. I never spoke to one employee who thought he gave them information they could use plus he is booooorrrrrriiiing. The only reason he's in HR is because this is the way an embecilie like Wiggington could save his job. As for Esmeralda talk about an uneducated barrio chola. She is foremost- a backstabber. Next, she has a history of screw ups just like Smock. She messed up one BIG incident involving a severance package for the Valencia branch manager. Of course as head of HR, Rodger never got employees good benefits that were affordable considering P1 pays shit. Have you read his memo, newsletters and his employee handbook. The man knows nothing and does nothing. So what do the new titles really mean? You know it ain't going to change anything at P1 because you have the same retards running the place that have been running it since they pushed it into the hole.
Love the new fees. Finally, Wigg is giving members to close their accounts. Way to go, genuis!!
I can't believe that we don't get raises for the last 3 yrs but Wigg and Smock go ahead and promote 2 people who don't know or do shit around here. And no, employees are not being cry babies, there's a problem and its called Wigg, the board, and stupid, fat, useless, rule breaking Smock.
There's probably a good reason for West and Esmeralda's promotions. Maybe they were failing under the old HR titles and Missy Smock and Wigglebottom thought the new titles would improve their performance. This is why they're the laughing stock of the credit union industry. If Wigglebottom only knew what they say about him at the union hall.
I'll tell ya what we say. He hangs out in back bar. Drinks are $2 a piece so he always has a FEW. He sits back there and talks and talks and talks. We say 'He likes the drink and to talk.' He's jus a big mouth thats all.
So what is West's/Esmeralda's promotion going to cost? Are they going to pay more consultants? Where's the money coming from? How do West or Esmeralda qualify to do whatever it is their supposed to do? You know Rodger is ignorant about everything HR so he definitely can't teach them anything, so that means they probably going to hire an outside person to come in and show them how to do it.
Great move Wigg. Promotions to 2 big incompetents while you haven't got 1 idea on how to get loans going. You're the.... well, it ain't man.
The new charges are ridiculous. Their service is bad, really bad, but charging people to talk to one of their employees is ridiculous. Is this because they have more calls and too few people to answer phones?
Wigg is a banker also has beenand as you can see always will be.
Fee fee fee fee fee and more fees
Aside from Saffold, Gathers, and Irving say they chose Wigg because he was black, some of the other board members said they chose him because of his banking experience, which is a stupid reason because credit unions and banks are based on different belieft systems like for profit and not for profit. Plus he hadn't worked at a bank for 16 years when they decided this was important. His thing about raising charges and fees are completely bank even though he couldn't make it in today's banks. Bea started out in credit unions but she had a banking mentality because for her it was about making profit not helping members. But she was like Wigg in that nothing she did ever worked. She like Wigg believe banks are superior to credit unions and thats the problem, because if you think you offer an inferior product, which Priority One does, then how can you ever do anything that is for members?
It doesn't look like the banking approach worked out for old Wigg.
What has?
None of what goes on in this place makes sense. When we were losing money, they decided to remodel. Right now business is down and they promote West who does not deserve to be promoted and should be laid-off and they promote Esmeralda who is one of the most horrible people you'll ever meet. She will tell you she's just doing her job, but backstabbing is not part of any job unless you work for this credit union. And they promote but the people who actually work which does not include West, Esmeralda or Smock, haven't got raises in ages and our benefits are horrible. Thank you Rodger for caring so much about people. While you're cutting coupons and sitting in your office with the door closed, the rest of us have a job to do! You need to be put out to pasture because you are 100% useless and untrustworthy.
So after not checking the blog for over a year it is very interesting to read the past post and definitely the comments left. It truly baffles me how accusations like that could have been made against David Q. as a past employee you don't meet to many people that are genuine David was that guy. Looking thru past emails over the years that he has sent me, never a dirty joke or anything bad to say about another person, so it really bothers me that they would accuse him of looking at porn he is not that type. So with that being said, as a past employee of P1 I can vouch for and expose many of the things said here , so buckle your seat belts its going to be a rough ride.
I've been out of the state for almost 2 years.I just got back lasy month. Went to Worldwide Branch and found it closed. When? I was told there is an Airport Branch. How long has that been there? I was never notified.
Well, Wiggington and Rodger are talking about making some big changes. They've been talking about that for years and all I see is a business thats losing all the way around. They can't be doing good, with Rodger always hiding in his office behind closed doors and Esmeralda having other people doing her work (like payroll) and Wiggington... well he looks like something the cat ate, spit out and then kicked. They need to make changes beginning with a new president. And is Saeid going to stay there for long? He looks...unhappy.
Your right, they need to change by booting Wiggington and his only friends, Rodger and West right out the door. The 3 are the laziest most useless hacks you'll ever meet. And they need to get rid of all the AVPs, either fire them or demote them but you don't need them in a credit union that's down two branches. Sylvia who talks about all she knows aint' cutting it. Ask her how she's doing with setting up the ambassador program in the valley. And whoever wrote that Wigg is not like by the postal carrier unionS is so right on. In LA chapter, he's a joke and when he visited the valley branch the other day, he didn't know that they can't stand him. His reputation is all over the place. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
The Worldway branch closed down about 2 or 3 years ago. Wiggington was supposed to open a new branch but decided not to until the Airport manager, Mr. Booth called Diedra and told her if Wiggington didn't open a branch at his post office, he would give the space to another credit union, a bank or even a Starbucks. Diedra blew up and contacted Wigg and a few weeks later, there's the Airport branch, though Wigg f*cked that up too. If you haven't been inside, its a closet. Wigg designed the floor plan. Its like that house he lives in, small, cluttered, and nothing to brag about.
Mr. Collections said...
So after not checking the blog for over a year it is very interesting to read the past post and definitely the comments left. It truly baffles me how accusations like that could have been made against David Q. as a past employee you don't meet to many people that are genuine David was that guy. Looking thru past emails over the years that he has sent me, never a dirty joke or anything bad to say about another person, so it really bothers me that they would accuse him of looking at porn he is not that type. So with that being said, as a past employee of P1 I can vouch for and expose many of the things said here , so buckle your seat belts its going to be a rough ride"
He was accused by a sexual harasser car thief and a COO who smacks of being a lesbian. And Rodger, who had an affair with Henry Campos, didn't say a thing to protec the employee. If you want to find porn, I'd look at Rodger's and Wigg's computers. I bet there is a lot there that would be shocking.
Wigg thinks everyone does what he does and thinks like he does. Just who he is and will always be.
Since Bea left, Saeid seems quieter. And Wigg is aware of the complaints about how little Randy knows. Wonder how long before they can Randy or when Saeid quits? And what's up with Loiacano? Is she hiding in her office. She acts like she's alone, then again notice how Wigg, Rodger, West, and Esmeralda keep her out of their little group... I mean gang.
Of course, they're quieter. They probably never thought they'd kick her out. Remember she was there to stay or so she said. Guess in the end, evil old Wiggington kicked her out like he did to a lot of good employees even though there was nothing good about Bea Walker. And poor Sylvia. The big bad AVP thought that with Bea out of the picture, she'd get promoted and maybe even get a nice office in South Pasadena. After all, if you listen to her she sounds like she knows it all. She looks like crap and her hair is falling and I guess all those new tasks Wigg gave her are wearing her out.
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Hope you bastards took your knifes out of peoples backs and tooks some notes, probably not.
If Wiggs was smart he would kick Yvonne's ass to the curb, cause she was really planning on his ass being booted out so her 'girl' Bea could run the show. Bea would be in Wiggs office and Yvonne would be in Bea's old office. Well looks like things didn't turn out how you thought they would eh Yvonne? Better start kissing Wiggs old smelly ass or you could be in the unemployment line with your 'girl' Bea.
Ha, ha, ha Yvonne just knew she and Bea would get rid of Wigg and Smock and be running the CU 'their' way. Looks like old Wigg and Smock are a couple of cats with 9 lives. Sorry Yvonne next time bet on black.
Hay Wigg you BASTER home banking and Millie are not working till after 6:30 and it's now 6:42 still not up put $10.00 in my account I want to charge you now JACKASS.
Esmeralda is what you don't want in HR on so many levels from education to the way she speaks to her backstabbing, but she still knows more about anything HR than does Robert West, who couldn't train a poodle to jump through loops. He is the worst trainer imaginable but you'd only know this if you were forced to attend one of his snoozeathon training camps. Yikes. During one meeting he told us he used to be a DJ in college. Really, because I can't imagine anyone listening to him and not changing the station.
By helping Wigg and even Bea break policy they fired people and covered up wrong doing. Of course he has to kiss Wigg's ass because he is over 64, has to support that boy and doesn't have anywhere else to go.
As for Miss Boutte, she's another Bea except with some white coats of paint slapped on that face. She sticks her nose in everything when she should be working at getting collections down. She's not stupid, she just acts it. She did backstab Wiggington but I think he's actually afraid of her. Let's face it, physically she could take him with no problem, specially now.
This is just a group of uneducated freaks. By the way Smock, who wrote the last newsletter? Its horrible. Next time don't ask one of your cats to write it.
Smock is a horrible writer. He has never known anything about advertising and even less about marketing. He knows less about marketing then he does about HR. He always had that smug holier than thou attitude but its a front because he's as a big a lowlife and policy breaker as his buddy boy, Charles.
See what happens when you fire the marketing director and replace her with Rodger. Tsk, tsk. Souch a stupid decision.
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Sylvia is stressing. When Bea left she thought Wigg, her friend, was going to invite her to come and work with him in South Pasadena. Instead, old useless piles more work on her. I went by the Burbank branch and besides the staff looking tired, you can tell they can't stand her probably because she's nuts. She's also been mad because they promoted useless West and just as useless, Esmeralda. It got back to South Pasadena that she's been complaining that they only promote people who work in South Pasadena. If she wasn't so stupid, she would realize most people who got terminated were from South Pasadena. Of course, she had a lot to do with some of the terminations. She should be happy because nowhere else in America would anyone hire her to be an AVP, branch manager or cleaning lady.
Its been said, fire the whole lot of them. Sylvia's not the worst she's just a symptom of a way bigger problem
I heard today that Wigg or his attorneys are trying to get ex-employees to come and testify at court. They're trying to say that they got rid of people because they needed to cut-back but only problem is that before they fired people, Wiggington, Smock, Esmeralda, Joseph, and Bea let it out that they were getting rid of people Charles said "are trouble." If they wanted to see trouble they should of looked in the mirror and now they are facing trouble. Diedra and the board even met in June to talk about one of the cases because they're trying to make up a defense because the chance people that don't read the blog will find out everything they done.
Of course they have to call ex-employees because no body working there now, except Sylvia and Lynette, would lie for the credit union.
Which ex-employees are they calling? Its a big gamble because they don't know what the employees will say.
John has posted information at the beginning of the blog on how to contact the employees that are suing. Even if you signed a confidentiality agreement, there ae ways that you can say whatever you want legally. Contact them. I did. Don't let POCU get away with their lies.
You know you have way more readers than P1 has members? I was talking to one of the people in loans and they told business is way down plus their Burbank branch is doing almost no business except for a few new accounts here and there. I guess time to unload again.
Start with Smock, West and Esmeralda. Maybe that'll give Wiggy something to do.
Wigg is not going to replace Bea with Syvlia or Yvonne. He doesn't trust anybody right now and is going to try to have other people do what Bea did, but before Bea got there, who did her work? The credit union didn't need her ever and her supposed work doesn't really exist because she didn't do much.
Does anybody know what there defense is for getting rid of Linda and David? I know Wigg and Bea lied about both of them like they did about Dane, Marc, Suzanne, Kim, Kim H, Wendy, Joe, Sonny, Tsui, and forced Manny to quit. These people are such big liars and I hope who ever they calls turns a dime on their asses and exposes them. There's a lot of bad businesses out there but Wigg is HORRIBLE! Now think about it, how can someone who is horrible create good leadership and leaders? That's why he has Smock who will sell anyone out for anything and Sylvia who is a backstabbing two faced chola and Robert West who is the ultimate hypocrite and I don't care what anyone says, FAT Esmeralda who will turn the dagger in any body's back. And of course he is the one that brought in Bea, supposedly to do who his work but really, to help him get rid of his enemies. Of course, he never expected her to turn against him and kick his no class ass.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I heard today that Wigg or his attorneys are trying to get ex-employees to come and testify at court. They're trying to say that they got rid of people because they needed to cut-back but only problem is that before they fired people, Wiggington, Smock, Esmeralda, Joseph, and Bea let it out that they were getting rid of people Charles said "are trouble." If they wanted to see trouble they should of looked in the mirror and now they are facing trouble. Diedra and the board even met in June to talk about one of the cases because they're trying to make up a defense because the chance people that don't read the blog will find out everything they done.
They really have sunk to a real low, what are they going to say to that ex employee. Sorry we got rid of you but can you say something nice about P1? Can you smell the stupid or is it just Wiggs bad breath.
I wish anyone who brings a lawsuit against the credit union good luck. I hope more people will step up.
Wiggington lives in denial. For years he talked about his sex life and how he got one woman after another woman after another woman. We all knew he was married and no one believed hgim. Look at him. That's not the face, voice or the body of a player. He lies and thinks people believe him. He fires people after abusing them and he thinks they'll come back and say something nice about the credit union. I think one reason, he and Diedra and that stupid board got rid of her is because in their twisted little heads they are going to blame the lawsuits on her. After all for years Diedra has covered up for all the illegal things Wiggington did and she ain't about to stop because she suddenly got a conscience. Bea came to the credit union to help Wiggington go after people he never imagined were a problem. She was a trouble maker and hopefully no self respecting business-credit union, bank, strip club, will ever hire her because I wouldn't wish that moron on any company. And if they fired her thinking they could blame her for the wrongful terminations, she always be subpoened. Actually, I'd like to hear her defend the credit union and every horrible things she said and did or hear her turn against them. Wiggington made his bed, now I hope someone kicks him into it.
"They really have sunk to a real low, what are they going to say to that ex employee. Sorry we got rid of you but can you say something nice about P1? Can you smell the stupid or is it just Wiggs bad breath."
Its both the "stupid" and "Wiggs bad breath." And yes, Wigg did make his bed but I think whoever kicks him into it should also kick Smock, West, Esmeralda, Gema, and Joseph. That would be a dream come true for Mr. Sex. The more the merrier, huh Wigg?
They got rated by the state and they're ADEQUATE. That isn't good, its not great, it sure ain't excellent, and it's not even satisfactory. Way to go, Wigglenada. LOL.
The only office that does any business is LAPDC. The others don't cut it except for Van Nuys. A lot members don't come to South Pasadena anymore because they say the place has changed and employees are unfriendly. Burbank is useless. Ever notice how there's no big sign saying Priority One Credit Union. so when you drive by you miss the place. Wigg never knows what to do to bring attention to Priority except maybe when he sexually harasser, bad mouths employees, and thinks no one knows what he's doing.
Well what do they have at SP, 1 teller at any given time? Its depressing going in there and no body looks happy.
I was at a cu function recently and it should be embarrassing to Wiggington to know the amount of people who know about the things he and his people have done to the credit union, to members, and to employees. And I was shocked to learn how many people read this blog. If the president had wanted to prove that this blog had not substance he could have changed the way he acted. Unfortunately, there's no getting around the documents. I met him a few years ago during a conference and what I most remember of him was his talking. He reminded me of a used car salesman and not an officer. I don't know why Mr Harris didn't fire him.
Wigg has made p1 what it is today? People forget that after they found that girl stole all that money from Lynnette's branch Wigg and Bea decided they weren't going to give back any money to acccounts for dead members. This guy has done so much bad things.
What about the car he took? What did the board do about that? Same thing they did when he sexually harassed Kim. And what has anyone done when made up rumors about people and then got them fired? A lot of postal workers are closing out their accounts because they can't stand what he's done to the credit union. They loved Mr Harris but Wigg drives people away.
He goes and speaks at the carriers union in the valley and he didn't even know that he has a horrble reputation because they know he's full of BS. Not even being sick is going to get anyone with 1/2 a brain to trust him.
I don't see how Wigg is going to improve business. He hasn't had one single good idea and you know what happened to Bea and all her products. We don't offer anything new or different or lower price than other cu's. We don't attend a lot of community events because there always looking for the cheap ones. What happened to financial education or chamber events? Why don't they let us attend the meetings at Luminarias?
This is a long comment, so I posted it into four parts. Sorry about that.
I read this blog often (like a lot of other people) but I think its time for me to say something about life outside the Priority One Credit Union.
I was an employee of the credit union for many years. I was honored to serve under Mr. Harris, who created a credit union that strove to serve its members and for the most part, appreciated its employees. After his retirement, the credit union became one of the worst, most unprofessional settings I had the misfortune of working in. I once observed a former AVP wrestling with one of the female employees by his former desk in the Loan department. He pulled her by her hair and dragged her to the floor where he pulled off her hair band and tussled her hair while she kicked and swung her arms around wildly.
Another time I listened to Charles Wiggington stand alongside Rodger Smock, while speaking to a former Real Estate officer, and coaxing her to walk over to where he stood so he could “whip your ass.”
Another time the same AVP received a call from one of the female employees in another department. She was responding to a voice mail he left and when she asked, “What do you need?” he replied, “How about some head?’
I got to observe Mr. West writing his book in his office, during company time and while being paid. The book was not be written on behalf of the company and it was his personal project, yet if you ever had an opportunity to listen to him speak, he expounds on the importance of one’s testimony. Evidently, the man is no small hypocrite.
At Priority One, employees like lead teller, Georgina, and AVP, Gema, spend hours gossiping in the office at at lunch at Alhambra Park. The speak Spanish in front of non-Spanish speaking personnel and they nickname people, like “el gordo, “la flaca, “el Panzon,” “el gordo,” all completely inappropriater in ANY work environment. And the two women dress horribly and conduct themselves horrendously. Did you ever notice the same flat shoes Gema wears year after year and the homemade suits made from the same pattern? She makes more than enough money to buy something that befits an AVP.
Since leaving Priority One, I have been blessed in obtaining employment with a company were the environment if free of gossip, back-stabbing, and where people actually work towards common goals. It is amazing, that the elements of business do exist though you won’t find them at Priority One. I had the unfortunate experience of attending an employee training class along with AVP, Sylvia Perez. The woman is exactly what you don’t want in business. During a break she shared with me that she was not accustomed to working in a credit union like Priortiy One and was only used to working in (her words), “corporate environments.” That woman wouldn’t know how to comport herself in a corporate environment. Her mom and pop efforts to obtain new business reflect her lack of enducation and her inability to comprehend the marketplace served by the credit union.
I also got to watch Yvonne Boutte and her manipulation of Bea Walker, Charles Wiggington, and Saeid Raad. She, believe it or not, is somewhat intelligent but she is also conniving, an element which like Wiggington and Smock, is poison to any working environment. The things that happen at Priority One didnn’t happen in the back offices or outside the building, they took place out in the open in the loan and member services departments.
I once participated in a luncheon also attended by Mr. Wiggington and board director, Thomas Gathers. Often times during the gathering the two would break into sexualized humor which was inappropriate and frankly, embarrassing, particularly when you witness just how uneducated, uncouth, and disgusting these two “men” are.
I have kept in contact with seveal former employees, and almost all are working in happier more satisfying environments devoid of the crass, uneducated and vulgar antics of Mr. Wiggington, Rodger Smock, and the entire board. It is amazing to be a participant in environments where people actually work in unison to achieve goals. There’s actual purpose with none insidious elements which characterize Priority One Credit Union.
For employees who remain at Priority One, find work elsewhere. You don’t have to be trapped with people like Wiggington and Smock or West, Sylvia Perez, Esmeralda Sandoval and the others. These people are an embarrassment to anyone who wants to develop professional insight and believe me, there are no well managed companies that would hire them. There will always be bad elements in any company, but never to the extent you find at Priority One.
Truer words were never said, bravo my friend.
So true.
They are the worst. I've heard stories about the things that go on in the branches. No wonder they hide and don't go to the chapter meetings.
Very nice!
I wish you the best! This is not Bea saying she found a better job (I hope). No one misses her out here. No one even mentions her fu@&@ name out here. I hope she is happy making others pople miserable so that's what she is good at "bitch".
I never understood why B didn't like Sylvia and vice versa. They're both bitches, they're not good at their jobs, they both micromanage, they both gossip, they're both disliked by employees, they both left their last employers on bad terms, and they both are the devil. And Sylvia you remember what you did when you were at Fiscal? Stop LYING and changing what you supposedly accomplished when you were there and why you really left.
This is not Bea saying she found a better job (I hope)." With her reputation and what she did, mean what she was allowed to do by Wiggington and Diedra, no company should ever hire her. It was because she didn't follow procedures that her former employee was able to steal SOME of the money when she was his supervisor at Honda FCU. It was her funky ideas and lousy plans that got her the boot at Universal Studios City CU. But at P1, she was just 1 of the MANY idiots who head the company. First you have king of all retards, Charles Wiggington turning everything he touches into shit. Next you have useless Rodger Smock bending the rules which lets some employees get away with kiting, embezzeling, and abusing a bunch of other policies, while others get escorted to the door. You have Randy who knows as much about IT as he does about brain surgery. And you have Saeid who can do anything to help turn about losses though he's great at playing with the numbers. Lynnette could be fired and you'd never miss her. Sylvia should be fired along with Wiggington because the chola and homeboy are both the biggest embarrassments to hit the cu. You have Robert West who is useless as a trainer, education, and hr manager. Sorry but you should man it up and pack up your purse and just leave. And then there's Esmeralda whose about as real as the tooth fairy. She claims to be everybody's friend but we all prefer real dogs, not phoney ones. She praises the lord, but I'm pretty sure its not the one in heaven. She tries so hard to act professional, but she misses it by a 100 miles. Nope, this is one group you wouldn't find at any other credit union except P1.
And as for Bea, its like she never worked here. Great first impression Miss Walker. When you had a chance to do good you jacked it all up like one of your outfits. Hopefully you next job is in the south pole.
"And as for Bea, its like she never worked here. Great first impression Miss Walker. When you had a chance to do good you jacked it all up like one of your outfits. Hopefully you next job is in the south pole."
She couldn't work there either because she'd disturb the penguins.
How old is this blog? 2, 3 years old. Its been proven time and time again that after 4 years Wigg has not only not done his job he's made P1 a smaller CU. He setup that useless AVP group with embarrassing Sylvia Perez who is caustic to employees and business. He put in Liz but she got fired for kiting. He put Aaron even though there were lots of complaints against him from employees. He got rid of Dane and Jodi who were great and drove Suzanne and Darlene out. He had Marc in marketing but got riod of him and put that useless Rodger in charge. Now days Rodger doesn't even take of marketing because they have a marketing company who by the looks of their newsletter and very few promotions, is doing a lousy job.
They're 3rd rate. They were 1st rate but Harris left and Wiggington said he would take them to the next level. He did- he pushed them into the gutter. Everything about them is cheap!!!!
No one ever mentions the horrible things that go on in the accounting department. Jennifer Kelly the supervisor is the worst! She is vicious, mean-spirited, a gossip and she knows zilch about accounting principles. I liked Manny but he never should have let her become supervisor. After Manny left, IDIOT Wigg promotes her to controller when she isn't even a good bookkeeper. She plays favorites. Diane has the brains and she knows the operation but Jennifer lets Cecibel Ponce do whtatever she wants and Cecibil UNLIKE EVERYONE ELSE in the credit union gets to put in overtime. Now she wouldn't have to put in overtime if she didn't get on the phone on so many personal calls or go around the office gossiping in Spanish and if she wasn't so lazy.
Now Saeid whose no winner, complains to Yvonne Boutte that Jennifer never has reports in time but when Yvonnne, who is also no winner, approaches her, Jennifer talks back and says things are just fine. Are they? So whose higher anyway, the controller (joke) or Yvonne the support services director (another joke)? Now Saeid should do something about Jen but I think he's either frustrated with her or afraid of her. Now Diana is a GREAT employee and she unlike Jen and Cecibel works, but Jennifer her supervisor talks about her. Diane had surgery and was supposed to be out for a few days but Jennifer called her and told her to come back to help her with the work. I don't know why, but Diane came back even though she's under doctor's orders. When Esmeralda saw Diana back at work she asked Jennifer if she was working and the liar- Jennifer, said she was just visiting. They better have paid her for being at work because its against California law for an employee not to be paid for time worked. Diane has ever worked overtime and reported it but Jennifer has taken it away and not paid her which is again, illegal. I think Diane should file a complaint with the the labor board and someone needs to check Jennifer because sister girl is way outta control. Dianna has gone to Saeid but he gets annoyed and won't call Jennifer to the carpet. Of course if it was about Saeid, you can bet homeboy would be on it wanting to get paid for the time he reports but doesn't really work. Instead of listening to her, MORON Saeid pegs Diana as a troublemaker and gets mad with her when he knows Jennifer is useless and obviously breaking the law. And they should have written up Cecibel a long time ago because that woman is so RUDE! But the one who is at fault is Wigg. He's the same IDIOT who promoted Liz and Aaron and who hired Bea and allowed Randy in and who promoted Jennifer. He picks people who are just as useless as he is.
Jennifer Kelly is someone who keeps quiet but is as horrible as the rest of management. Her department is just awful with she and Cecibel against all the other employees. Little Jen and Diane are wonderful but Jennifer Kelly is ignorant and you're so right, Saeid sees it, complains about it but doesn't do a damn thing. Then again he's no better.
You have Jennifer who doesn't know much about accounting.
You have Syvlia who is abrasive and not likeable trying to get new business.
You have Gema who is embarrassing from the way she talks to the way she dresses and she's lazzzzzzy.
You have Virgina Contreras who does a great job with the work but she's horrible with employees. She acts like she's back in grammer school trying to fight for attention and make sure everyone knows she's the pack leader.
You have Joseph who has no talent to make loans grow but I still say he would make a great hostess at some restaurant.
You have Smock who knows less about HR than he does about boys.
You have Lynnette who is ghetto and you could get rid of her and it wouldn't make things worse. Useless, lazy and she speaks for only one group.
You have Wiggington who's a moron and immoral. Biggest embarrassment in all of credit union land.
What a wonderful company with so many great managers.
Jen is P1's best kept secret. LOL. You forgot West.
The problem at P1 is incompetence. When Wigg took over the first thing he did was bad mouth everything Mr Harris and his staff did and said he would do better. 4 years later he's screwed over the credit union, members and employees. He has nothing to show that he's been good for P1 and certainly he's hired no one on his team who has shown they have the ability to make money for the cu. West doesn't know shit about business. What are his contributions? What has Smock done that's been a plus for P1? What did Beatrice do? Oh, that's right, she got canned. And what about Saeid, has he proven to be a good CFO? Forget Randy, the man's like Wigg- an idiot. And Jennifer Kelly? What has she done to make P1a better cu? Lynnette sits her ass down at her desk, talks to her friends, doesn't know much about loan funding though after 30 years she should be a kick-ass officer and people should be able to call her for help but they can't because she's lazy and doesn't know squat. And then there's that piece of........... work, Sylvia "chola" Perez. The woman thinks badgering members to sign membership cards or a loan app is the way to push growth. She has a horrible vocabulary so at best, her audience are the homies. She doesn't understand business or the importance of using the surveys members submit, to try and create something that will produce steady business not a one time event. Joseph is useless, no intelligence and no imagination but he's Bea's monster. Besides the obvious flaws, they all like to gossip malicious about people because that's probably the only way they can make themselves feel good.
UNBELIEVABLE!!
Have anyone heard anything about the EX COO? So I heard Gema is loooooooonely without her. We also heard Adriana, Judith, Dana and Sylvia miss Bea a lot. WHAT DO THIS POEPLE MISS FROM BEA? CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS S*%$%$!!?? And you Cecilia stop talking SHIT about your BFF SYLVIA so you don’t like her anymore? Is she also driving you nuts? Sucks to see our self in other people ah? You are a fat ugly manager get some make up from 99 store and make sure you put it on to go to work so you can look a little bit presentable and make sure you dress like a manager too because you are bit embarrassing to present to members as such. Talking about ghetto Gosh can this place hire people with better skills, good personality and presentation? Honestly, none of their manager have what it takes. SAD<SAD<SAD!!!
No one except Yvonne has heard from Bea. They texted each other and Bea said its a hard time for "executives." Yes, she was an executive in name only just like Wiggington and Miss Smock. Gema probably is so lonely. When Bea got hired, Gema was so afraid of Bea that she actually hyperventilated one day and the paramedics came to the main office and took her away. She was out after that for several days. Do you know why she was afraid? Because she thought Bea was going to get rid of her like she did ACTUALLY good, hard working employees. Gema couldn't get a job at a professional company not with her slang, horrible way of dressing, and lazy attitude and know one knows it better than she does. That's why all the time Bea was COO Gema would call her Miss Walker and she used to tell us, "I agree with anything Bea says." Gema is a kiss ass, dishonest, lazy as shit, and horrible. And those are her good qualities. Gema is lonely because if it wasn't for moron Walker, she never would have been named AVP, even though she I wouldn't hire her to sell oranges along freeway exits. Then again, I wouldn't hire Wigg to do that either. I don't know about Adriana, Judith, Dana and Sylvia missing Bea. Bea screwed each those bitches over after they helped her backstab Suzanne. And Adrianna is still telling members things about Suzanne. I don't under why she's obsessed with Suzanne. Maybe its another girl crush. Dana wants to get out. She says she "hates priority one." Judith is a doorstop so whereever you place her she's fine even when she's miserable. And you're so right, Cecilia, the woman who dresses like she shops at Big Lots, doesn't like Sylvia (welcome to the club). Problem is he pretends to. I hate that these people talk crap about each other behind each others backs. She should either shut-up or tell Sylvia how she feels. Cecilia is another barrio baby and she fits perfectly at P1. Bea used to say the place was ghetto. Trailer trash was absolutely right, it is. From Lynnette who can only talk to one kind of member to Sylvia, who has chola written all over her, the credit union makes managers of the most embarrassing people. In fact Miss Sophisticated Yvonne refers to her staff as her "peeps." Stupid.
Before Wigg became Pres, Rodger used to talk about how lazy he was. And Wigg used to talk about how useless Smock was. Thats just the way management is at P1, they talk smack about each other and then pretend they like each other.
People think that Wigg just jacked up P1 and emplyee morale but he turned the company into a place hwere people backstabe each ohter. The worse gossips have been Wigg, Bea and Rodger followed by Lynnette, Sylvia and Cecilia. Then it trickles down to groups like the loan dept in South Pas or all the ex employees of the Valencia branch who now work at the Santa Clarita office and Burbank. The place is awful with everyone willing to sell each other off so that they can save their jobs. They relly believe kissing Wigg's crooked ass will keep them from getting fired.
Cecilia isn't as nice and sure not professional like people used to think. She's always got that expression her face like she's smelling shit. She can't stand Neelam and talks about her behind her back even though she's not supposed to. She says the woman is useless (which she is), dumb (which she is), makes so many maistakes (which she does), and slow (which she is) but she complains she can't fire her because Neelam is "Sylvia's friend". Wigg should have fired Neelam back in 08 for approving a bunch of bad loans but he used Anwar as a scapegoat and blamed him instead because Neelam is Sylvia's buddy and Wigg likes Sylvia. Its not about right or wrong but who you know. Maybe Linda Nisely's attorney should be looking at these types of things. Plus she should ask HR for David Centeno's file. That was a great employee who got setup by Sylvia and then fired on a bunch of lies that Sylvia and Rodger made up.
it's great to see west and esmerelda got a nice increase in their salary but all the other employees don't get anything for actually doing work. that is a great way to keep moral up in the work place. all the useless uneducated ones keep getting promoted while employees who know what they are doing and are educated either get fired or looked over because they don't kiss ass. did anyone ever see marc's marketing plan he wrote for one of his classes in college. he created the plan for P1 and actually had members fill out surveys for his research but he didn't present it to the executives because he was way under paid. too bad they fired him because it was a great report they could have used instead of having rodger in marketing. its funny to see how there are/were a small group of employees at P1 who have the potential to change things but are kept down because those who are in charge don't know what they are doing. way to go chuck, here's a free one for you, when business is down and you can't get members in the door don't raise and create more fees. P1 is getting lost in the crowd of other financial institutions you clam to differ from.
Well, here's another testimony to Wiggington's failures as a president, ceo, and human being. Back in 2006, Mr Harris worked hard to get the merger started/finished with Inland Counties Postal Credit Union. He finished it before he left and Wiggington inherited on 1/1/07 when he became president. In the years that followed, Mr. Big Incompetent never discovered how to get new business in the area and he treated the members in Riverside country like they were 2nd class citizens. Last year in October, he and his FRIEND Bea and Saeid, closed the Redlands office because the credit union was doing so bad and they couldn't afford to keep it. They decided to keep the really small Riverside branch open to serve the area and they even gave Gema Pleitez that office to manage.
On October 15, 2011, the little tiny office managed by Gema Pleitez, is closing its doors which means that Priority One has lost all business in Riverside. Now stupid Wiggington will tell you that members can use the ATM in Victorville and they can use Shared Branching but Mr. No Brains couldn't even manage to keep one small office open.
The man is the biggest failure to hit any credit union. He's like a disease. Everything he touches eventually just dies out. He destroyed Marketing, he destroyed the relationship the credit union had with members, he destroyed member service, he destroyed integrity, and he destroyed the credit union's size. Way to go, Wiggington. How many more offices are going to close while you're president and Diedra continues to head the board?
Wow. They losing Riverside. Thats not even a big office and it didn't cost them which means their business must be super sucky. Charles used to say that Mr Harris caused him a lot of problems when Priorty merged with Inland but Charles could have proven he was a man and a president by fixing those problems and proveing to everyone he could make Riverside grow. To Charles, SHUT-UP. There should be a law against you opening your big mouth! You are so useless. Oh and thank Diedra for the wonderful she and her board of losers have done in digging Prioritys grave. So what are you aiming for, one branch?
Actually, they're closing on 10/14/11. RIP.
So Saeid talked useless Wiggington into closing another branch? Can't pin this one on Bea.
Yvonne!!!!! You need to wake up. Don't you know that a member of your team, Suzanne, is blogging about you?
Can someone get a hold of the soon to be Lending Director and let her know she might not want to give her 2 weeks notice at her current credit union. Priority One Credit Union is not the place to work. She needs to think long and hard before she makes that move. It will be the worst decision in her life.
Everyone is losing focus here. The purpose of this blog is to expose Wiggington's terrible leadership, not to harm one another. Stop attacking your coworkers, and keep this blog centered on the "Idiot" instead of harming each other. Remember, he's the one that makes all the bad decisions at P1.
They did hire a new director though I would think she would have taken a moment to check out the internet and find out about how P1 is doing. This credit union is getting smaller but Wiggington says, we're making profit. You are in the black because your getting rid of stuff, idiot! We're not getting loans, people aren't interested in what we have, a lot of postal workers have left because they hate what Wigg did to P1 and since they're industry is laying off, there's no need to stay with a credit union that doesn't do anything for its members. Yes, West that applies to you too and your really stupid promise that P1 is a financial fitness center. You can't even hold on to your own branches much less help members. I hope this person they hired thinks twice about coming to Priority. There's not only the fact their losing money there's also the fact she is going to have to work with Wiggington and Smock. She'd be better off working with something from the animal kingdom.
I've been with the PO for over 25 years and a Priority 1 CU member for over 15. Heard about the blog and decided to check it out. What a lot of adolescent nonsense. Grow up people!
"I've been with the PO for over 25 years and a Priority 1 CU member for over 15. Heard about the blog and decided to check it out. What a lot of adolescent nonsense. Grow up people!"
This is a perfect example of why Priority 1 is going down the drain. You have a useless, uneducated board who hide wrong doing and have let the credit union get smaller and smaller. But the ones who have the POWER to save the CU are the member owners, yet you have a lot who have closed their accounts out because of whats been revealed on this blog but you have others like this OBVVIOUSLY lazy useless supposed member who after 15 years, has seen the CU go from several branches, high income, great service and a great president to nothing more than a joke that can't compete into today's marketplace. Do you see him saying, "I'm going to write to the DFI and demand they investigate the board and throw them out if necessary and get rid of Wiggington who obviously is no good for the credit union" or do you have them say apathetically "grow up." No you grow up because as a supposed member with 15 years of service to the credit union you do it a disservice not to speak up. So take my advice shut your adolescent tripe and grow up, Mr. or Mrs. Useless!!!!!
No body gives a shit if you've been with the cu for 15 years, if you're not doing what you can to save it. I, personally doubt you're a member. You might be Hale or useless over-the-hill, Gathers, or even Beatrice who's got an axe to grind now that she says "its a tough time for executives." Only a top notch dumbass could see Priorty 1 lose Valencia, Redlands, and Riverside, watch while an idiot President, COO, and Senior Vice President waste money and take away employee benefits, watch while their income gets smaller and smaller, watch the president commit sexual harassment, and then advice everyone to "grow up." Do your duty you useless sack of crap or keep you mouth shut because the credit union doesn't need another useless moron opening their mouth when they already have Wiggington. Talk about 15 years of nothing. If your truly member for 15 years and you think the CU going down the drain is just great and then your credit must suck and you probably can't open an account somewhere else.
That is so true. I've talked to a few members who hate what Wigg has deon to P1 and they miss Mr Harris but their too scared to complain because they're afraid P1 will close their accounts and they know they can't open accounts somewhere else because their on chexsystems.
I've been with the PO for over 25 years and a Priority 1 CU member for over 15. Heard about the blog and decided to check it out. What a lot of adolescent nonsense. Grow up people!
What's your point? Why don't you take some of your fancy schooling and write a darn letter, dagnabit, to the dfi, the ncua and the supervisory committee telling them that you don't like what's going on at P1 and that you want Wigglenothing and Diedra thrown out on their asses instead of thinking you're writing to one of your great, great grandchildren.
Wigg could have closed Burbank which would help him produce more money because the rent there is high but he didn't want to because his "buddy" Sylvia manages that office and he and her husband are friends. It is disgusting he lost all of Riverside. He made a mess and disrespected the merger with Inland and he disrespected the hard work people put to put that merger together. He is so stupid and incompetent but really, the thanks goes to that a-hole, Diedra Harris-Brooks. She is disnonest, controlling, and stupid and hold on to the board like vulture. She nad her group of fools have made the worst decisions with no thought of the credit union, the members or the employees. They no longer have credit unions in Riverside or one open to the general public, in Valencia. Way to go Wiggington and the board! They've been trying to push shared branching, like that takes away the need for a real branch. They ought to close South Pasadena because members hate going there plus that's where Wiggington hides, like a rat.
Wigg doesn't know nothing about business. Getting rid of things is his style because he's useless. Maybe if hadn't spent the first 3 years talking every bodys ears off and done what he was paid to do, the cu would have all its branches and be making money. That man is the biggest idiot in the whole industry. No wonder he got sick. He can't be at peace knowing all the crap he caused. Thats why he hides behind Smock and that buck-tooth hag, Diedra.
Well it's about time they started negotiating something that makes sense. Outsourcing the collection department!!!!! I knew it would only be a matter of time. Actually I think that is a brilliant move. I wonder if Rupaul will tell her team that they are getting laid off or will she leave them to find out the day of. She will still have her job and we all know she does not care about others. You better start looking for a job. LAYOFFS are coming soon for the collection department.
Another over paid executive, way to wiggy.
But didn't Wigg have Patti Loiacano fire Mike Lee and Allied Management the former collection company, back in 2008? It might be better to outsource but why did idiot fire the former company? I'd like to see what they collected versus what that overpaid drag queen got to run collections from 2008 to now. She not only hasn'd done her job, she's got promotions and pay raises. Really, get rid of those half-wits Wigg and Smock and then kick Mrss. Boutte to the curb. Its about time they got rid of another failure. Maybe she can become friends with Bea again and they can open a muffin shop. Maybe that's why Saundra left. Maybe she saw the writing on the wall. Of course Gossip Queen Alex and Fat Boy Jerry are there for the long haul but if they get replace collections maybe Alex can get a job at TMZ. She doesn't have the looks but she's got the abilities.
Some one needs to let me know how much it's going to cost me to walk into the branch and speak to a teller I got a $5.00 fee for doing a transfer with a person over the phone, first it took 16 minutes to answer, 11 mintues on hold then 9 mintues to do the dam transfer and I paid $5.00 for that service.
Please someone bring back Harris. the whole place has gone to HELL
I don't know if they're really going to outsource collections again. Yvonne (not that I believe anything she has to say) is saying business is doing good (sure, that's why you're closing Riverside in October and why you closed Valencia and Redlands in '10) and that the outsourcing is just a rumor. Hummm.... I don't know, but I do know that their collections reports say collections are high which sort of contradicts Yvonne's words that she has got collections under control. Really? That's not what the reports say, then again maybe she's like Diedra and doesn't know what she's looking at. People say Yvonne is smart and she is smarter than Wigg and Smock, but she's really not that bright. She's a conniver and she's a great conniver but smart, no not so much. Wigg used to brag that he brough Bea in because she had an MBA in business. That didn't help make things better did it?
And whoever asked about the fee we charge if members don't use MILLIE and what an employee to transfer their money, that is a good question. The Fee Schedule doesn't say if you will get charged $5 if you come into a branch and they transfer money for you, it just says that they will charge you $5 if a representative transfers the money for you. My guess is, they're going to charge $5 if you come into the branch. B of A does and we all know Wiggington has wanted to turn the credit union into a bank because he really thinks banks are better. They must be because no bank would ever hire him to work for them. You're right, you do sometimes have to wait a long time before someone answers the phone. Too bad members can't charge the credit union for each minute they have to wait until someone stops looking at the worldwide web and answer the phone.
I've said it once, I've said 100 times, Wigg sets the tone for what used to be a credit union. He's lazy but wants employees to work. He's got a filthy mouth but he wants everyone to act professional. He and his former buddy girl Bea, made up all those rules threatening to fire you if you posted anything bad about the credit union but he continues to open his big mouth and put the credit union business out on the street. It would be like Idiotigginton to try to pass by a $5 charge that can be charged whether a member calls or walks into a branch asking to transfer money. Its not about members being a priority or about them being a financial fitness center. They should tell everyone what they really are, a financial sickness center that'll help you lose your money. The prez pushes stupid to a new level.
Sorry guys. Collections is being outsourced but unfortunately Rupaul is staying there to be Wigg's BITCH!!!! That's something she does so well already. She will also get another increase for that promotion.
Wow. That's more proof of how stupid Wiggington is. Hard to believe but Yvonne is sneaker than him. She's been saying its just a rumor and business is great and delinquencies are down. If this is true and I believe you, then she's a bigger piece of shit than I thought.
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