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Here's a good one. Exactly 23 months ago I revealed the unethical and illegal behavior of my boss to my senior supervisor. Illegal insider trading with one of our national account customers. As it turned out, there was another individual involved in this little scheme, my direct peer. I was offered into this activity prior to coming forward and declined the invitation for easy money many times. I DID NOT want to be the one to blow there little gig. I repeatedly told my senior supervisor(s) that I was very uncomfortable working around them due to what I percieved as a lack of biz ethics and professional courtesy. Obviously the relationship became one of distrust on both sides and I began to fear not only for my safety, but for my job as well. You see, my senior supervisor (in another city) had become personally attached to one of the individuals involved. I ran the situation past a legal pro. in my family who practices outside of this particular discipline, and was advised to record conversations with the individuals in the event it bacame a who-shot-John contest. I did. Met with my senior supervisor a few weeks later and all but begged him to release me to another location. He (as most bosses would probably do)defered comment and advised me to just perform my job or leave the company. Well, to make a long story longer. I began to look for employment elsewhere. I was offer to evaluate a company in another State in order to make a sound call on going to work there. I didn't want to leave the company due in part to $200K U.S. in earned commissions coming my way over the next 12 months. (I was the number 1 sales rep year after year) I'm dragging this out so here it is.. I telephoned my corporate security officer and told my story. I informed him of my fear of retribution from the guys. I informed him of my decision to leave if no guarantee of security for me. I informed him of my decision to seek legal advice. He and several members of the HR team advised me to stay low while they quickly came up with a solution to the problem. A week later I was fired for not reporting to my office. Since then I have not been able to get a good reference from the company. Mind you, I am working and doing rather well. However, I can't help but think of the $$ I left when I was pushed out for not playing the game. Several key people at the company have phoned me over the past few months and told me that the company considered me a bluff with absolutly no tapes to back up my story. The tapes really do exist and they are rather detailed. They name the largest companies in the world and also throw a wrench into a Federal Investigation where a HUGE healthcare company (you should know the name) was being indicted on several charges. The Feds actually allowed someone outside the investigation to view the files and inform his bud's to dump the stock. NO JOKE. The feds recieved discounted if not free goods in return or prior favors. Crazy stuff I know. But what would you do? Keep my mouth shut and move on or raise a big stink and see what comes of it? Comments??