6:30am: A Morning I Wont Soon Forget

So this morning my mom woke me up at like 6:30 and told me she was going on a job interview. She had been telling me for some time that she head received a poor review at work and had been having problems with her new boss, this fat ass old horny white man as she described him, and wanted to find another job before she was let go. But she never really said much more than that until today.

She told me that her new boss used to be a consultant that they brought on, and once the old boss (who mom got great along with for years) had a stroke he convinced the upper level management to push the old boss into early retirement. And the consultant was hired in his place. And that’s when everything went all bad my mom says. Some of the Female employees started to complain about sexual harassment, money started to come up missing, checks started to get forged, some one started stealing the donation money, etc...Shit just hit the fan! Mom works at a non-profit organization that helps children with behavioral problems and mental issues. Giving them food, housing and one-on-one counseling. So these rich white folks are always giving donations to the non-profit. The organization had got the police and they said the FBI involved but even with their involvement they still had no idea who was stealing money and forging checks, tens of thousands of dollars were coming up missing and uncounted for.

One day my mom (getting her Angela Lansbury on) went into the system and started investigating and since she knows the accounts payable (the department she works in) system better than anyone and better than they realized she discovered that the signatures on some of the checks had been forged, so she reported it to her boss. The next day when she arrived to work, she saw that someone had been on her computer and tried to void out those forged checks but just messed everything all up. This was the first sign this was an inside job. The second sign was that only a select few knew where the donation money was kept, so for it to have been stolen it had to be an inside job. As time went on the stealing and embezzling got worse and sloppier.

Soon after my mom reported the check fraud, she received a poor score on her the evaluation of her performance, this was sign to her that they didn’t appreciate her whistle blowing. She said that after that her boss and other members of the staff began watching my mom closely, sometime just blatantly starring at her watching her every move. As my mom started to get the uneasy feeling that with all stealing and the embezzling going on the house was very close to coming down. And she felt like “when it does finally come down they are gonna look for a escape goat to pin it on , and it sure the hell aint gone be me. If I go to jail who gone pay my rent?” this is an exact quote….true story…lol…so that prompted my mom to started looking for a new job which brings us today. At about 8:00 am my mom returned home and told me that she had got the new job. She had to accept a slight deduction in pay but she was like she really had no choice because she had to leave her current job before the house came crashing down.

Crazy shit, thats some ol' Enron type shit or some "Dick and Jane" type shit, If you ever seen that movie with Tia Leoni and Jim Carey.