Should I say something?
After 20+ years doing bookkeeping, including payroll, I got hired for a GREAT job on the 8 person payroll team for a company that has divisions in all of New England and the East Coast from Maine to VA.
At first my boss was great, but I gradually began to feel like she didn’t like me. I’m not the asskisser - “buy your favorite type of chocolate to keep on my desk” type of employee, and I think she was into that kind of thing. However I figured I was just being paranoid. She was very slow to grant me permissions in ADP or assign me company codes. So, while I shadowed the payroll specialists, I was assigned other, supportive tasks like digitizing old records, sending garnishment orders to ADP, and sorting the mail that came through Payroll.
One day my boss assigned me the task of creating files for her mail. This took me about 6 hours over two days, as it was a month’s work of mail that had to be categorized by company and state. Because I had to read the mail to see where it should be directed, I noticed that several states were sending my boss letters stating that she had not filed unemployment quarterly reports for several quarters, dating back to 2024, which is about when she started working there. I didn’t say anything about the content of any of the mail figuring there must be some explanation, and gave her the completed files before the deadline she’d set for me. However, after this I noticed her disdain for me was palpable.
On my last day, she called me into her office. She told me that she had a concern that I was reading the files I was supposed to be digitizing, because it was taking way too long. (I had to go through hundreds of files and thousands of documents to pull out the staples before scanning them). She said that she thought I was talking to the others about the former employees whose paperwork was in the files, (which I did not do, they were too busy for chit chat like that, and all I did was skim each document to check for staples, i wouldn’t call it “reading” the files.) Also that it took me to long to file her “weeks worth” of mail. (Not true, there was mail from before I got there 5 weeks prior.) Anyway, she said that my employment could not continue. She would say I quit so that I could get a job in another department in the company and pay me for an extra week but she yeeted me. She watched me pack up my stuff and made me go. I did apply for another position in the company, but have heard nothing back - it’s been about 6 weeks now.
Since then , I am absolutely torn about whether or not I should report the info about the UI bills to someone higher up in the company. Being fired ruined me. I’m already in chapter 13 bankruptcy, and idk what being unemployed now will do to that. Her saying I quit will make it harder for me to get unemployment, and I don’t see how that would help me get a job in another department. WWYD? The head of the department is actually an old friend of mine from middle school. Should I report my ex boss or could there be some explanation I’m missing as to why the payroll dept. is being billed for hundred of thousands of $ from several states in past reports? Any thoughts are appreciated.