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More troubles for my clients

It’s hard being a consultant who works closely with people for a long time. I feel like their troubles are mine, but I can’t really help or be there for them. On the bright side, feeling like their troubles are mine is much better than their troubles actually being mine. So there’s that.

One of my clients told me today that they found out one of their HR people had been embezzling funds for over 2 years. They don’t know how much yet, but it looks like sizable amounts. So messed up.

The company is relatively small and seems to do most of their hiring through word of mouth and people who know staff members. So it’s possible they missed something in her background. I’d think to pull something like that off for so long you’d have had some experience before, like most serious crimes. J would be more of an expert in that area (solving and information about crime, not committing crimes… I think).

Oh well, they’re instituting a policy of doing an employee background check for everyone, myself included.Which means I’ll probably disclose the existence of this blog to them.