Originally Posted by
Asturias56
This sort of thing often happens when a local (in this case a US citizen) gets shafted by the company - they then rat to the tax or immigration authorities who send a letter to the Company asking for facts - panic sets in and no-one does any research or thinking - it's a lot easier just to dump the issue on the poor bloody infantry and let them sort it out.
Yeah that's kinda what I thought too.
But there wasn't any "shafting", TBH... Just lots of stupid mistakes and lots of time spent correcting them. No need to do any "ratting" at all, just make the fixes and back them with documentation of the stupid mistakes and the comms surrounding.
"Never attribute malice to that which can be explained by ignorance, incompetence and stupidity".