I was spending too much time worrying about hypothetical problems.
“Payroll has run for years,” he said. “We don’t need to overcomplicate it.”
I wrote a summary of that conversation for my own records and continued following the established reporting process.
I had no idea that he would later appoint his niece to replace me.
I also had no idea that the very control weaknesses I had documented would become relevant during her first payroll cycle.
Now, as the crisis unfolded, I sat at my kitchen table and looked at
