“And Harold signed it.”
Silence.
Then the CFO said:
“Can you prove that?”
I smiled.
“Yes.”
At 10:07, I opened the old folder on my computer.
I had kept everything.
Every warning.
Every email.
Every meeting note.
Every acknowledgment.
Every spreadsheet.
Every message where I had asked management to approve additional testing.
There was even a document titled:
PAYROLL TRANSITION RISK ASSESSMENT — ACTION REQUIRED BEFORE IMPLEMENTATION
Date:
Six months earlier.
At the bottom were two signatures.
Mine.
And Harold’s.
Beside his signature was a handwritten note:
Reviewed. No further