My Boss Fired Me After 10 Years of Running Payroll for 12,000 Workers—72 Hours Later, 1,237 Employees Had No Paycheck

procedures.

I was glad to hear it.

I had no interest in seeing her career ruined.

She had made mistakes, but the larger failure belonged to a management process that had allowed confidence to replace verification.

As for me, I didn’t return to Granite.

I had learned enough from the experience to know that being indispensable to a company was not the same as being valued by it.

And I wanted something different for the next chapter of my life.

Chapter Nineteen: The Phone Call I Had Been Waiting For