Life as an accountant for SugarSide inc. has been rough for the past few weeks. Actually, *rough* isn’t really the right word for it. Oppressive is much more fitting. So oppressive in fact that David, a guy from marketing who works across the hall, had even joked that the *SS* logo of *SugarSide* actually stood for The Schutzstaffel: Nazi Germany’s secret police. Sounds a bit harsh for a candy company, huh? Not really.
Three weeks ago the owner of SugarSide, Mr. Bertinelli, discovered that there may be someone embezzling a sizable amount of money. Naturally all eyes have been on accounting ever since with Mr. Bertinelli even going as far as to hire an outside firm to review our books. I was barred from my office for over a week before the firm was satisfied that I and my record keeping were clean. And even now myself and my entire department are under a microscope 24/7. After nearly ten years at the company you’d think I would be treated a little better but apparently not. I, like the rest of my fellow corporate office dwellers, am a suspect.