The entire company headquarters board was alarmed by the last incident. Aside from missing huge profits, they also dismissed a portion of the evaluation department.
This clearly resulted from these employees' inadequate observation of future agricultural product price trends, inaccurate evaluations, and lack of bold predictions!
If they had known from the start that grape prices would skyrocket, would they have encountered so much trouble?
No!
They would not have had any trouble, would not have needed to go to court with anyone, and they could have made more money with their accurate grasp of the market!
The General Manager's words reminded the Vice President of the high penalty for breach, "I remember the board discussed not allowing contracts with excessive penalties."
He was hinting at whether this contract violated the board's decision.
If it did, they would hold the manager responsible for signing the contract accordingly.
