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Illustrative onlyThe CFO was billing the company for a Shopify store that sold his wife's candles.
I found it during a routine audit. The vendor was named after their street address and the bank account was registered to his wife's maiden name. Total pulled over 14 months: about $38,000. I flagged it in writing to the board. Within two weeks I was 'restructured out.' They kept the CFO for another eight months. What I wish I'd known: take a screenshot before you send anything. I sent the flagging email without saving a local copy first. The company's legal team later claimed no such email existed.
We found out we were being cut because someone left the all-hands invite open to the whole company.
The calendar invite went out at 11pm with 'Q3 Workforce Adjustment' in the subject line and 87 names in the attendee list. By midnight the Slack DMs were chaos. HR sent a correction email at 7am saying the invite was sent in error and to disregard. We showed up to a video call three hours later to be told our roles had been eliminated. They had a script. You could tell because everyone on the other side of the call was reading and two of them had the same grammatical error when they said 'this was not a reflection of your performance.'
I reported a pay gap. Six weeks later I was on a performance improvement plan for the first time in four years.
I had run the numbers myself after a colleague accidentally forwarded me a salary spreadsheet. The gap between me and a male colleague in the same role, same band, two fewer years of experience: $14,000 a year. I took it to HR with the data. They said they'd look into it. The PIP arrived on a Tuesday. I've since spoken to two other women at the company who had similar timelines. Flag, then PIP. They both signed NDAs. I didn't.
These examples are illustrative. They do not represent real events or real people.
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