‘Wherever you are, Wanda, thank you’: Coworker Orders $55M in Unneeded Inventory During a Corporate Merger, Faces Zero Consequences, and Accidentally Maxes Out Bonuses for 1,500 Employees for Years

Nobody in the history of corporate America has ever been rewarded for paying close attention during a merger. The people who get paid are the executives who announce it, the consultants who bill by the hour to explain it, and, apparently, completely by accident, one procurement employee who stopped paying attention entirely and ordered fifty-five million dollars of inventory nobody asked for.

Corporate mergers have a kind of chaos that I could never fully grasp, just like most other elaborate business proceedings, but that’s an issue for another day. And this specific merger chaos is the type that would never make it into the announcement. That’s why I’m glad employee, Reddit User, posted this gem on r/coworkerstories.