My husband is the Parts Manager for a small company. He says that over the past year or so since the present company took over from the previous owners, they have not been paying the bills to their many parts suppliers. A number of these companies have either frozen or closed their accounts because of nonpayment and have threatened to turn the accounts over to collection agencies. When my husband forwards these messages to the person in charge of paying the bills, he gets cursed out for sticking his nose where it doesn't belong.
Neither my husband nor I understand how this place has gotten away with this for so long without going under. He is looking for another job, but things are pretty bad around here. I'm also worried that my husband can somehow be held responsible for the company's mismanagement, and that this will cause problems for him in finding another job.
Any thoughts?
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Dave87--sad commentary on business in any case. But this is more than late payment; the office manager, or whatever he's called, actually crumples up the bills and tosses them in the garbage. That's the scary part....some of these places are owed $20K+....