roberino

A friend hired a college grad who had great references and interviewed amazingly well. The position was field support and the first month he shadowed a colleague before going off alone to take some of the easier jobs. Clearly, given the COVID situation, some travel had to be cancelled. Being a young person he didn’t have a big credit limit and was therefore expensing bookings as soon as they were made. After four cancellations and no money back the controller audited his expenses and asked what happened to the money from cancellation of four hotels, four flights and two rental cars.

He first tried to say they were non-refundable, but checking the receipts/emails he submitted with the claims proved that was false. He then said the payments hadn’t been refunded yet so the controller asked for his CC statement. He declined. He was told to either pay back the money or provide proof of why he didn’t have it within 3 days. At that point he apparently walked out of the customer site leaving the job incomplete and unsafe with tools just lying around. The following day his phone and laptop were found on the doorstep of his local office (not the one where he was based) and a resignation email was sent to his manager saying he quit because “the job was not as had been described” and that when he had raised this “a campaign of victimization” was started. His last pay check covered about 40% of what he owed so the company is now pursuing him through the courts and threatening criminal action if the money and costs are not returned.

I’m genuinely baffled as to how he thought he would get away with this???