When They Fired the Woman Who Knew Where Every Dollar Went

I already knew it wasn’t going to be small.

“Check the bank rejection report.”

“We don’t have access.”

“What?”

“Madison changed the process.”

Of course she had.

I stood up.

“Call your bank.”

“We did.”

“And?”

“They said the ACH file was rejected.”

“Why?”

“They wouldn’t tell us.”

“Then get the rejection code.”

Silence.

“I don’t know how.”

I rubbed my forehead.

That was the problem.

For ten years, I had trained people to know what to do when things went wrong.

Harold had spent three weeks convincing everyone that