The Original Blog of the NISSAN Whistleblower 

Nothing But The Truth

???   Were you called into 4 meeting with Nissan HR

Yes

???  Were 2 on the executive floor

Yes

???  Were two of the meetings with Marlin Chapman director Nissan HR

Yes

???  Were two of the meetings with Mark Stout the Nissan VP of HR

Yes

???  Did Mark Stout offer you money to be silent

Yes

???  Did Marlin Chapman ask you to do something unethical

Yes

??? Did you do it

No

???  Did he tell you to prove you’re a team player you needed to do it

Yes

???  Would this unethical act have profited you

Yes

??? Did you not do it because it was illegal

Yes

???  Did you think you were asked to do this so they could tell Mr. Tavares you did something unethical since they had already fired you twice. 

Yes

???  Did you have a contract with Nissan

Yes

Did Nissan say they'd pay you in full for the contract

Yes

???  Did they

No

??? Did you tell this to Mr. Tavares

Yes

??? Did You tell this to Greg Kelly

Yes

???  Did you get a letter from legal after your website on June 17th saying you would get paid the balance

Yes

???  Did you get paid

No

???  Did you tell Carlos Tavares that you did not get paid

Yes


??? Did Andrew Tavi offer to "pay the invoice" if you took down you website www.girlintheblackhonda.com

Yes

???  Did you take it down.

No

??? Do you not take it down because Carlos Tavares did not tell you to take it down.

Yes

???  Did you believe Nissan suffered from a Good Ole Boy network.

Yes

???  Did you tell this to Mr. Tavares

Yes

???  Did you tell Mr. Tavares that Good Ole Boy networks need to be scared in order to act ethically.

Yes

??? Early on did you talk to a man about six sigma transformation

Yes

???  Did you ask him about Good Ole Boy Networks

Yes


???  Did he tell you to be tough when dealing with "Good Ole Boys"

Yes

???  Did someone meet you at Starbucks and explain what an “agent of change” is

 

Yes

?? ? Do you believe you’re a change agent

Yes

???  Did you send Mr. Tavares an email saying you researched the rates of change agents making $12,500 - $15,000 a month.

Yes

 

??? Did you tell him you would invoice him “after” corporate change happened for  $13,250 per month and then you will not worry about the unpaid balance that Nissan owes you.

Yes

???  Is that why you put on your website the fall of 2009 that you were a change agent and "the stealth skirt".

yes

???  Did Mark Stout threaten you in March 2009 saying it's a small community and all my references would go to him.

Yes

???  Did Mark Stout threaten you with on numerous occasions about your references

Yes

???  Did Mark Stout remind you on the phone that he would make you unemployable if you said anything to Carlos Tavares an hour before your meeting with him in March 2009

Yes

???  Did Mark Stout return your calls requesting references

No

???  Did Nissan provide training that was to help transistion you into a new career as promised.

No

???  Did you contact Nissan HR requesting that training

yes

???  Did you ask Nissan for a letter so you could move into an apartment

Yes

???  Did you want Nissan to mail the letter to you

Yes

???  Did you put on your website that if you did not receive a letter you would go to Nissan to pick it up.

Yes

???  Did Nissan send you a letter telling you not to pick it up

NO

???  Rob admitted in court during the preliminary hearing that there were Titan Trucks lined up with men standing by them

Yes

???  Was every vehicle in the row a Titan Truck.

No

??? Was the car in the middle a Black Honda

Yes

???  So the other vehicles were Titan trucks with men standing by them and the only open parking spot when you drove up to get the letter was in the middle of all those Titan trucks.

Yes

???  Did you feel harassed by the men wearing sunglasses on a cloudy day staring at you

Yes

???  Do you believe Rob put dye in his hair just for that meeting

Yes

??? Did you ask Rob for his name after her muttered that you were not welcome at Nissan or in the community

Yes

???  Did he tell you his name promptly

NO

??? Do you insist on him giving you a name

Yes

???  Did Rob tell you the Franklin police were there

Yes

??? Did you contact the police to confirm what Rob had said

Yes

??? Did they say they were at Nissan that day

No

???  Did they tell you “nothing” was logged at Nissan that day

Yes

???  When Dominique Thormann was announced that he was being sent back to Paris on July 10th did you believe Nissan would contract you and resolve the problems.

Yes

??? Did that happen

No

???  Did you put on your blog for a few hours on the 9th that Dominque Thormann was a bad spender.

Yes

???  On July 6th 2009 Did you put on your blog that you were going to name a bad spender

Yes

??? Was the date on photo copy letter that Rob used to “haul you to jail" over a year later dated July 7th  2009.

Yes

???  Did Rob say in court during the preliminary hearing that senior management ordered the letter & thought you were a threat in July 2009

Yes

Did you receive emails from Mr. Tavares after July 2009

Yes

???  Did Mark Stout & Marlin Chapman routinely embarrass you by having you escorted from the building in March 2009

Yes

???  Did you continue to meet with Mr. Tavares after that

Yes

???  Did you ask Mr. Tavares if there was a takeover happening or an internal battle of control

Yes

???  Did he answer you using a bridge term

Yes

??? In the summer 2009 after Thormann was announced he was going back to Paris Did you make a post on your blog about real estate deals and LLC’s that mentioned Jim Morton

yes

???  Did you take that post off of your website

Yes

???  Did you feel physically threatened by some of the harassment you received

Yes

???  Did you have an email Jim Morton wrote to you on that blog post

Yes

???  Did a viewer connect Jim Morton to Mississippi Haley Barbour

Yes

???  Did you take down a post after you felt threatened by a man in a red Titan Truck with Mississippi tags in the winter 2010.

Yes

???  In summer 2009  Did you have visitors from Nissan at Starbucks

Yes

???  In summer 2009 Did feel that people were spying on you

Yes

???  In summer 2009 was Scott Becker one of the people staring at you at Starbucks

Yes

???  Was he with a 40ish man with olive skin, dark hair in a suit.

Yes

???  Did that man have his chubby son who looked about 12 with him.

Yes

??? Were you followed in 2009 by Titan Trucks in a way that scared you

Yes

???  Did Nissans cars circle your home

Yes

???  Did you complain

Yes

??? Did you learn in May that all of Greg Kelly’s emails were being read by Lydia Mark Stouts assistant

Yes

???  Do you believe your personal email account tampered with by Nissan

yes

???  Did you tell Carlos Tavares in March 2009

Yes

???  Were you told personal facebook accounts were monitored by a eastern European company

Yes

???  Were you told that Jim Morton did not want the gays from California to move to Tennessee

Yes

???  Did you consider Catherine Perez (the highest level woman at Nissan North America) a friend.

Yes

???  Was Catherine Perez scared of Carlos Tavares

Yes

???  Did she tell you about her one on one with Carlos Ghosn

Yes

???  Did she tell you Carlos Ghosn approved her extra spending

Yes

Did she tell you Mark Stout would take care of approving extra expenses

yes

???  Did she tell you about hidden cost centers at Renault

Yes

 

??? In February 2009 did Catherine Perez ask you to coffee the weekend before Mr. Tavares was announced as the New Chairman of the Americas

Yes


???  Did she ask you if you had a new client

yes

???  Did you tell her you were working for Mr. Tavares

No

??? Did she give you a gift

 Yes

??? Did she give you other gifts too

Yes

???  Did you know why

No

???  In March 2009 Did Catherine Perez touch you in an inappropriate place

Yes

???  Was this done in public at Vincent Valdmanns birthday party

Yes

???  Do You think Catherine Perez in gay

No

??? Do you think she wanted people to think she was gay

Yes

???  Do you think Mark Stout encouraged this

Yes

??? In 2008 did you get a call wanting personal data about Catherine.

Yes

??? Did you tell them anything

No

???  Did you tell Catherine Perez in late March 2009 that your emails were being read by HR

Yes

???  Did Catherine Perez stop the friendship

Yes

???  Did she call you from the Atlanta airport in spring 2009 to "clarify" some spending issues that could be "interpreted" as inappropropriate

Yes

???  after not speaking to you for about a month did she send you some emails in May 2009 that indicated you and Catherine were more than friends.

Yes

???  Did she tell you  “you fell off my radar”  “I miss our conversations” “love Catherine”.

Yes

???  In 2008 Did Catherine Perez  tell you she would become an SVP

Yes

???  Did she tell you in October 2008 about an 18 month plan for corporate leadership change. 

Yes

??? Did this involve a board member from Renault

Yes

???  This corporate change that was happening did it involve

Mr. Saikawa

yes

??? Did ever send Mr. Tavares about Mr. Saikawa wanting to be chairman/ceo

Yes


???  Did you tell Mr. Tavares that Klein and Rey were two puzzle pieces that were missing

yes

???  have you figure out the mystery of Rey and Klein

No


???  Did you tell Mr. Tavares issues because he was the man in charge.

Yes

???  Did Catherine Perez take you out to dinner to Stony River after you spent the day house hunting with Carlos Tavares in early February.

Yes

??? Was the dinner about 8pm

Yes

??? Did she get several calls that night

Yes

??? Was she speaking to a man in french code named the “General”

Yes

Did she ask you questions about Mr. Tavares while the “General” was on the phone.

Yes

???  Did she get frustrated with you when you would not answer some of her questions

Yes

???  Did you not answer some of her questions because Mr. Tavares was your client and by answering them it would be unethical

Yes

??? Did you tell Catherine Perez that

Yes

???  Did you tell Catherine Perez you did not answer questions asked by Nissan HR about her personal life

Yes


Was there a man code named "Prime minister"
Yes

???  Did this remind you of the 1992 RNC internal battle of control

Yes

???  Did you like Burt the man in charge of Relo

Yes

???  Did you think Burt did a good job for the “inpats”

No

???  Were you mad at the bad service given to “inpats” at Nissan North America

Yes

???   Did you want to be put in charge of Relocation

Yes

???  Did you offer proposals to change relocation

Yes

???  Did Catherine Perez see those proposals.

Yes

???  Did Catherine Perez indicate you would get the job

Yes

???   Did she tell you she had to trust you  for that to happen

Yes

 ???  Did you trust Catherin Perez

No

 

???  Did you attend a Bourbon tasting with Catherine Perez at Sperry’s intended for “exlusivley”  Nissan executives

Yes

???  Were there about 40 Nissan executives there

Yes

???  Was there only 1 black marketing executive

Yes

??? Did a Nissan Director say “they keep him because he acts white”

Yes

???  Besides Catherine and yourself were there any other women

No

???  Did you believe this was a meeting of the Good Ole Boy Network

Yes

???  Was Allen Childs in charge

Yes

???  Did you hear a comment made at the Bourbon tasting that the “war was starting"

Yes

???  Were you told on the executive floor that “skirts don’t speak”.

Yes

 

???  Did Marlin Chapman tell you that you were the most qualified person to be in charge of relocation.

Yes


??? Did he tell you Tavares was a genius
Yes

???   did Marlin Chapman say in his office that you were probably smarter than most people in the building and that scared people.  

Yes

???  Did Marlin Chapman tell you at Pachini's in early Febuary that at Nissan North America they don't want to hire "thinkers".   They only want "followers".

Yes

???  Did Marlin Chapman say that most people at Nissan North America can only stand being in a room with Mr. Tavares for 15 minutes and people can't understand how I could spend 2 days with him and then be complimented for my performance in a conference call.

Yes

??? Did Marlin Chapman tell you that you could do the work of 3 people

Yes

??? Did Marlin Chapman admit Nissan had problems  in relocation

Yes

???  Did he say he booted someone out for show

Yes


???  Did you know it was a hispanic woman

Yes

???  did Marlin Chapman acknowledge poor customer service in relocation

Yes

???  Did he say he keeps Burt in charge of relo  because he’s loyal

Yes

??? Did a member of Nissan relocation tell you that employees from overseas are not called expatriates but “inpats” at Nissan because “they’re IN my country”

Yes

??? Did you complain about the bad customer service the Bourges family received

Yes

???  Were you asked at Nissan ???  Why you like French People

Yes

??? Did Nissan waste a lot of money in relocation

Yes


???  Was that taxpayer money
yes

???  Did a wife of a VP get a business class ticket every month costing about 80k a year even during the travel ban in late 2008-2009

Yes

???  Did Marlin Chapman tell you it was a "special cost center"
yes

???  Do you believe the Tennessee taxpayers paid for "wife flight"

yes

???  Did you question Marlin Chapman about poor record keeping in references to leases

Yes

???  Did he tell they did not keep the records so there would  be no paper trail

Yes

???  Did he tell you this when he believed you were on Greg Kelly’s team.

Yes


???  Were you told by specialist Carren Faulkenberry that Mark Stout was on his way out

Yes

???  Do you think Marlin was told he could get Mark Stouts job.

Yes

???  Did Carren Faulkenberry tell you that Mark Stout did not know Carlos Tavares was going to be announced until the day of the announcement

Yes

??? did you think that was true

No

???  did you think this was weird

Yes

??? Did you tell Catherine Perez

Yes

??? Mark Stout called you to 2 meeting after Marlin Chapman fired you two times

Yes

???  Did you know why

No

Were you curious

Yes

??? Did Mark Stout say Marlin Chapman was “in over his head”

Yes

???  Did Mark Stout say to you in his office that Mr. Tavares liked your work ethic and had complemented your work

Yes

??? Did he tell you that problems existed in relocation

Yes

???  Did he tell you Nissan would use your ideas to make relocation better but not hire you to implement them

Yes

??? Did you ask Mark Stout why

Yes

???  Did Mark Stout tell you he did not trust you

Yes 

???  Did Mark Stout tell you that Mr. Tavares told him he valued your opinion

Yes

???  Did Mark Stout tell you he did not trust you because of what you had already told Mr. Tavares at social security

Yes

???  Did Mark Stout tell you he did not want you to talk to Mr. Tavares

Yes

???  Did he tell you that a system had been set up a communications filter to feed information to Mr. Tavares.

Yes

???  Again did Mark Stout offer you money to be silent

Yes

???  Did you tell Mark Stout you would rather have a job than money, you wanted to change relocation, you wanted better customer service.

Yes

???  Did you then tell Mark Stout "I’m not stupid if you won’t hire me then I’ll take a check"

Yes

???  Did he ask you if you took a check “would you tell Tavares”

Yes

Did you tell him you’d tell Mr. Tavares you were being "paid off"

Yes

???  Did you ever get paid off

NO

???  Did a member of the community hear from a Nissan employee that you were paid money and were being greedy.

Yes

???  Did that make you upset

Yes

???  Do you believe they were slandering you

Yes


???  Were you told by a Nissan VP that Mark Stout was telling people “Sharyn Bovat will be taken care of”

Yes

???  Did they tell people you were gay

Yes

???  Did they tell people you were crazy

Yes

??? Have they hurt your reputation in the community

Yes

???  Do you like how Nissan took care of you

NO

??? Have former Nissan employees contacted you and told you of similar problems

Yes

Will some testify for you in court

Yes

??? Will you answer ALL these questions wearing a lie detector, in front of a TV camera and under oath

YES!!!!

Sharyn Bovat

615-415-6675

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