Years ago, I was doing work for this advertising agency. I knew the guy, so I wasn't worried about the money.
Finished the job, got paid and the check bounced.
I called the girl in charge of payables. She said, Oh, let me work on it and I'll get back to you later today. You'll probably have to stop by and pick the check up at the end of the day.
Well, I was over that way around lunchtime, so I went in and asked for my new check. My friend asked why and I told him it bounced, he said......
WHAT ?? We have over 1//4 million dollars in that account, let me call Sandi. He called and got no answer in her office. He needed time to figure this one out, so he gave me a personal check and that was that.
Later, was notified that I might be needed to testify. Seems my showing up a few hours early stopped her getaway. They found her going into the Allentown Airport about 1/2 hour before her flight was to leave.....
the country. She was being held for embezzling something like 1.75 million dollars. Over the previous 12 months or so, she had set up fake accounts, vendors and whatever else you can do with that much authority and no one checking you and she kept the business afloat while she kept pouring money into her fake accounts. The day I called her, she had the phone [
her extension] forwarded to her house and had called in sick. I remember telling Dave, I heard birds in the background and he said she had two pet fancy birds at home. There was never gonna be a check waiting for me that day. All that morning, she was busy transferring all her fake accounts into her account and was cashing everything in.
Too bad I showed up..... I'm always raining on someone's bright sunny day..... I just love life.
Oh, not to mention, this little scheme of hers put my friend out of business and about 10 other people out of a job immediately. I'm lucky his check didn't bounce to me.
I have other good ones, but I'll save them for further down the line.
