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

confidential employee records. I would not provide anyone with access to systems I no longer controlled.

And I would not allow anyone to convince me that protecting the company from the consequences of its own decisions was still my personal responsibility.

I had done my job.

I had documented the risks.

I had warned management.

Now it was time for management to manage.

Chapter Two: The First 1,237 Missing Paychecks

At 8:14 a.m., Madison discovered that her spreadsheet had a problem.

The issue wasn’t that spreadsheets were