A high school classmate who hadn't been in touch for nearly 20 years suddenly contacted me one day and said that he wanted to consult me about something.
I said what are you polite?Didn't you notice that we haven't been in touch for 20 years, and once we talked, the atmosphere of the chat didn't change?Just say it directly.
He said, I don't want to hide it, I'm in Shenzhen, and I resigned from the company in Shanghai last September. Now the work unit in Shanghai asked me to cooperate with the investigation on the grounds that it suspected that I had embezzled my position, and the amount was about 500,000 yuan.
I said, what do you want to ask me?
And he said, Shall I go or not?What happens if you go, and what happens if you don't?
I said, "You can do it." Do you think you have 500,000?
He said, I didn't take it, I have the guts.
I said, I didn't take what you were afraid of. If you really don't take the 500,000, you have two options. The first is, you don't have to pay attention to them, in a word, what do you love. Lao Tzu is really gold, not afraid of fire. The second is, after all, after living in Shanghai for so many years, if you want to go back to see, now tell the company, let them book you a round-trip ticket and a hotel, you go back to cooperate with the investigation, by the way to see the colleagues and friends in Shanghai, if the company also reports, it will be better.
He said, I want to go back, and I will talk about the problems that should be discussed, but I don't dare to be as arrogant as you suggested.
I'm wondering, you're fine, what's the point of being arrogant. In order to cooperate with their problems, what is the matter with you tossing a trip at your own expense?I didn't see you so generous when I was in school, and we don't have financial freedom at present. Besides, you're already planning to go back, why are you asking me what I'm doing?
* The other end was silent for a few seconds. Say, I have a bit of a situation, you can see if it counts as a ...... of embezzlement
I said, your second uncle. Didn't you say you didn't take 500,000?At the stage of signing the contract, you do something to the company's interests, and then this part of the money does not make the counterparty profit, but all goes into your pocket in disguise. This is the criminal act of suspected embezzlement. You don't have to cooperate to investigate this issue. If someone's company calls you to investigate, it is likely that you will be sent a confession. It doesn't even matter if you have it or not, it just depends on your performance. I advise you to have a correct attitude towards this problem, deal with it carefully, don't look ahead and backward for the sake of money, quickly take it out and pay it back if you have money, borrow money quickly if you don't have money, and go back to discuss it if you can't do it, and strive for the company's leniency or allow it to be repaid in installments. Don't make a fuss and report the case.
A week later, he called me again, saying that the boss of the original company had personally talked to him and had dinner together. He wrote a written apology letter to the company and attached a repayment plan that he would not be held criminally liable by the company as long as the repayment was made on time.
This apology letter explains the truth of the matter in detail, this thing is still very dangerous, it cannot rule out the filing of a criminal case, but is evidence of one's own confession. The safest way is to only get a loan confirmation signed by both parties, confirming that the previous payment is a loan to the company, and agreeing on how to repay it later. I sighed and told him that that was all there was to it for now. Since the other party verbally forgives and accepts the repayment plan, there is a high probability that there is still no problem, and the loan will be repaid on time later, or simply find a way to repay it early.
It's been a long time since this happened, and he has already paid back the money. But he said that he was still scared when he mentioned it, and sometimes he even woke up from a dream.
In fact, I must be clear that I did not "encroach on my position". If you don't, you can be frank and open, and even hold your head high. If there is, we should quickly learn from our mistakes and learn lessons to avoid catastrophes.