casseopeia
Structural
- Jan 4, 2005
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I am currently working as an unpaid intern for a local industrial arts school so that I can take some welding classes and have the fee waived. Part of my duties were recently expanded to include charging credit cards, approving checks and taking cash for studio rents and tuition and fees from the students and faculty. Even as a business owner I did not handle the dirty money end of things. I had an ex-husband, business development employee, and accountant for the smarmy end of business, for which all three of them were particularly well suited.
I started thinking “why wouldn’t they give this to a paid employee, and not an intern who has less that 40 hours of time under their belt at the school and who was not subjected to a criminal background check, or even a DMV review (not that anything would have turned up)?” As a former business owner, I ran DMV and criminal background checks and credit reports for anyone who handled the money. I still managed to have two employees steal from the business and an ex-husband who off-shored company proceeds. How do they know I would not use this sensitive information for myself (I wouldn’t)? How do the people who give up their credit card information know that I don’t just casually toss the information into the garbage? I don’t. I run it through a shredder.
I thought it was fairly common to have the people who handled the money for a company to be vetted to a higher degree than even the technical staff. So mostly a question for small business owners; do you pay more attention to the character of your business and accounting staff or do they get about the same level of checking as an engineer?
"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"
