Chapter 17
More Hard Work and Some Bad People
In the remaining time of that year we all started to do our work as well as we could, the turnover numbers were excellent and also the new projects were in realization. However, as I mentioned in connection with the annual meeting, not all shareholders were content with the developments as they unfolded, there were some who didn’t like T., in their opinion he was an intruder from a neighbouring country and they wanted to take things in their own hands. On one front they succeeded. In that group – as it generally is – there was one opinion leader, the others were following him. He was one of the cleaning company managers, his company had a specialized profile and he hadn’t taken part in any masters’ course – already the third one had been finished. At the same time he wanted to exploit the benefits residing in training courses, even there appeared booklets in his company’s in-house course that were copied from T’s textbooks that were protected by trade mark.
The line where he could defeat T. was MATISZ. He paid the individual membership fee for so many of his company’s employees that they could get more votes at the meeting of the renewal of office holders than T. and could elect their employer as secretary for the association. From that time T. became isolated from his fiends at the European federation and he got into a backwater. It would go on for some time, until that man would discredit himself and T. would become again the leading person in the association. It would go through a detour, and I am to report about it a little later. This isolation was disadvantageous from another point of view, namely CED would not get the assignments for translating European material into Hungarian – done by me earlier. Although MATISZ would lose them altogether, it was a big satisfaction for them that T. wouldn’t get them, either. It began to have a detrimental effect on the domestic activity of CED – and it was the deciding part of it – as one-by-one cleaning company managers began to turn away from T.
Before that action from the part of those people had been started, the management of CED – in that decision I took part too – decided to establish a limited company for managing the educational courses and handling the material covered by patent rights. The name of that business would be the same as the first training course (KonfirMATISZ) and would be owned with one third and two third proportion by CED and MATISZ respectively. When that kidnapping of the association happened it was already established and working. Director of the Ltd. became Kata, the wife of T. As soon as MATISZ became the sphere of interest for that new head of the association, he wanted to fire the director and place another one there, and all the educational materials would have been leaking to his pocket. It would be a long procedure – even a court would be drawn in – and at last CED would win the company, because it had paid in time its part of the capital stock, but MATISZ hadn’t. Even it would be impossible to pay in a certain time, as the association didn’t have any reserve, also the European federation was a lender with the membership fee. However, CED would have to settle that capital stock instead of MATISZ, and it was another hardship the company would not be able to bear. Even so it was not enough, for this reason some of the more enthusiastic cleaning company managers – and me – were drawn in as owners of the limited and paid the necessary capital and a new contract was prepared and signed.
For the above mentioned reasons the turnover didn’t match expectations at the turn of the year, and the third annual meeting of the share company turned out to be an open battle between T. and his opponent. It happened at the beginning of the next year. The latter wanted to kill the company immediately. However, T. could convince the other shareholders again that prospects were much better than that and made two proposals for possible routes of development. One was eLearning, the other was slimming down the company for a time. At last T. got another year of patience from the majority of the shareholders.
There was another change in the management of CED. That time T. resigned as general manager and S., the director of SERI, was elected.