Granted. I was diverging from my typical cynicism and allowing for the possibility that some HR person, somewhere on some occasion, actually performed a good deed and rescued some poor prole from a bad circumstance.
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Then again, there might be dozens of rich people with Manafort-like ways of doing business for which her methods promise the perfect in-house accountant.
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Old joke, but…
Interviewer, hiring an accountant: “What’s 2 plus 2?”
First applicant: “4.”
Interviewer: “Thank you. NEXT!”
Second applicant: “4.”
Interviewer: “Thank you. NEXT!”
Third applicant: “What number did you have in mind?”
Interviewer: “Can you start Monday?”
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No criticism intended, and you’re absolutely correct. There are some good folks working in HR departments, but in the end, they work for the company, not the employee.
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Amen.
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Ah yes, the deliverers of the “sign this waiver or no severance for all you laid off pukes” message. Yeah, no love for them from my experience.
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HR departments are only as good intentioned as the people they work for. If management is corrupt, so are they. Individuals may (and do) try to fight back, but no one ever sees these battles as they are nearly always lost. And even if they win, you still don’t see it because nearly everything HR does is confidential.
One must remember the the sacred golden rule of HR for the non-HR person: Whatever you think happened is not what happened. Whatever you think is going on, is not what is going on.
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Time to hit the talk show circuit and perhaps write a book.
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this is my direct experience
if she hadn’t caved in manafort would have found a firm that would.
it’s not a question of playing by the rules, it’s all about what you can get away with.
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Can’t imagine she’s surprised by that.
Wouldn’t doubt she’ll her CPA license as well.
Martyr for the cause!!!
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Once she had identified the problem areas, it would have been easier for Manafort to paper things over when going to a different firm. And she would have been reprimanded for losing a client.
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We create moral hazard when we don’t punish criminals and those who break the law.
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In her testimony, Laporta told the court she knew that Manafort’s tax returns contained false information, but she filed them anyway, out of fear of legal retaliation from Manafort and his former business partner Rick Gates.
This, and only this, is the cause of her firing. She admitted to falsifying legal documents that puts her company in danger. They’re now open to all sorts of investigations to see what OTHER irregularities the company allowed, knowingly or unknowingly.
It’s real bad for the company, too. Real bad.
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Or they didn’t care because she was bringing in good money, the probability of his getting caught was low (how long had he been getting away with this kind of stuff??) plus deniability in case he did get caught. A demonstrable second set of eyes, especially if this set noted irregularities, would have meant Manafort going fishing for another firm…
Maybe she can get a job in the Trump organization.
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Not surprising. If she holds a CPA license, we can expect that will be revoked in short order by the AICPA as well.
She could be a covfefe girl for the 2020 campaign with her skill set.
Beats going to jail. She can always do bookkeeping somewhere when her CPA license is revoked.
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That is curious. Had she done something illegal they knew about and they threatened to expose her? Did they threaten to frame her?
Or was the word “legal” thrown in there inadvertently, and she was just plain frightened that they would “retaliate.” When you are dealing with an international criminal of Manafort’s caliber, “retaliation” can be life threatening. So, yea, she would be frightened.
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