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

“You told me you had everything.”

“I thought I did.”

“You said you reviewed the procedures.”

“I reviewed them. I didn’t understand how many separate controls were involved.”

For a moment, Harold said nothing.

Then he asked the question that had been waiting behind every decision he had made.

“Can you fix it?”

Madison closed her laptop.

“Not alone. Not quickly enough to guarantee that everyone is paid correctly.”

That was the first honest answer Harold had received all day.

It was also the first time he began to understand