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She just won't give up
Posted by: cats
Date: 3/19/2006 10:35:36 AM
I started my job approx. 2 years ago. The position was given to me and my supervisor was to relinquish all rights to the job. She previously did the work I now do along with administering the entire office. The problem is that she doesn't want to give up the work and is making my life hell. I have spoken with her superior and he had a meeting with her telling her that she had agreed to hand over the work before I even started. The whole office thinks she is brassy, bullying and not fair to all the workers. After some time I have noticed that she pays some employees to do work at her residence on company time (she is not paying out of her pocket but the company's pocket). I have also heard her and seen her pay an employee cash out of petty cash to do some odd jobs at the office, meanwhile another employee is paid the same rate but getting paid legally. This person is not in her good books, she just doesn't like him. She has had an employee take her car for repairs and gave her the rest of the day off instead of coming to the office. This boss is distrustful and I watch my back all the time. She has told several employees that she hated me from the start and never wanted me (or whoever may have gotten the job beaides me) to be there in the first place. She does not read her emails in entirety, as she claims not to have fime. I have already talked with her in the past to no avail. You must realize she is married to her job, has been with the comapny a few decades, is single and has had only one boyfriend in her lifetime. She most likely scared him off!! At one time I took a few days vacation and she took it upon herself to change some forms I had created in its entirety and told everyone this is how it will be. I told her I refused to use her version as I am keeping the same formats as all the other offices to keep in unison with them. Now my question: Do I tell her directly that I know she is committing fraud or do I go to her superior? If I tell her first, I am more than sure she will do something with petty cash to make her look good. I have kept a diary of everything that is going on to protect myself. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!!
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newmexican7 |
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3/27/2006 9:02:00 PM |
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One, this person is very immature. Two, it sounds like your company is not very thorough with financial audits. Also, any Petty Cash transactions should be approved by a 2nd person, or at least monitored by another person and obviously this is not happening. This type of mis-management dealings leads companies to financial ruins and if talking with her superior is not fruitful, then you may need to go to the head of the finance department and ask them to put a new policy in place for disbursing these funds. Food for Thought: Long-term employees burn out and they are in total denial and/or don't realize it. |
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| Reply from: |
marfar573 |
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4/5/2006 1:53:00 PM |
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Take your documentation to her supervisor. Be prepared, however, to be the "bad guy" in all this - these kind of long-term people are long-term because they know how to cover their butts! She will probably be able to twist it around and make you look bad. Sometimes, these situtations are just not fixable - either stand your ground and put up with it or find another position. The only revenge you can have is knowing you'll be happier in another job and she'll have to contend with a new employee - maybe someone who she dislikes even more than you! |
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| Reply from: |
dawg_stylez71 |
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4/20/2006 12:27:00 PM |
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Sorry to disagree with newmexican7, but this person is not immature. She is machiavellian, and the embezzling from the company constitutes criminal offences. She is certainly embezzling far more than you have noticed, if she has reached the point of doing it in front of people she tells others that she hates. Her attitude is probably nothing personal, simply that you threaten to expose her extensive career of internal theft.
The first mistake was speaking to her directly. Another mistake would be speaking to her direct superior, who has probably tolerated her conduct because he or she is a machiavellian and an embezzler also (unless he or she is the owner).
The problem is that with the existing conflict between her and yourself, you have little credibility in accusing her. Ensure that your access to company funds and resources is double-checked by someone else, as her first response to an attack will be to frame you for what she has done. Then send anonymous information to whatever individual in your company is responsible for investigating internal fraud (like the company auditors). I strongly recommend that this anonymous information also contain some accusations **against yourself** which you can easily prove are wrong. This way, if the embezzler has friends in auditing who feed her information, she will conclude it was not you that sent the information in, and retaliate against someone else. Save copies of all the anonymous information you send to auditing. If the auditor comes in and goes after you and her, you can exonerate yourself. If it is clear that their is no response from the auditor, or the response is an attempt to persecute you, or someone else, for what the embezzler has done (a coverup), then you send signed correspondence to the CEO/owner, including copies of the material originally sent anonymously to the auditor, with proof that you had it before it was sent. This way you get both the embezzler and her auditor friend. |
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