When They Fired the Woman Who Knew Where Every Dollar Went

Most were from numbers I recognized.

Plant managers.

HR directors.

Union representatives.

Former coworkers.

People who had never called me outside business hours suddenly seemed very interested in finding me.

I made coffee.

Sat at my kitchen table.

And watched the notifications pile up.

I wasn’t happy about what was happening.

That part is important.

I didn’t want twelve thousand people to suffer because Harold had made a stupid decision.

But I also wasn’t going to jump back into a company that had just fired me and expect everyone to