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Subject:Re: business and bribes From:Jeffrey Seglin <IncSeglin -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:02:22 EST
Elna,
>* The most blatant case was a manager who wanted kickbacks. He'd hold
> our checks until I came in to talk to him about project milestones, with
>a particular-style status report. I had to hand him the status report
> in an envelope that also contained cash, sometimes several hundred
>dollars. Of course it was always written off as something else.
How did you handle this? Did you tell anyone else at your company what was
happening? Did you confront this person?
