@raven860 It was a non-profit organization, but the big boss at this company was making a huge, massive salary that was not on par with the organization’s mission. He was an incompetent fool that had no knowledge of or interest in OSHA laws or on the basics of how you must (by law) treat employees. Because this dude was making so much money, he did everything in his power to make sure that he kept his job, this meant threatening employees, including making the managers directly under him follow his lead (breaking the law, disregarding OSHA regulations, not keeping and destroying records, not following proper legal procedures when it came to employee complaints about safety problems). Later on it was found out that he was involved in a huge theft cover up. Some of the lower on the totem pole employees, who’s job it was to make sure that everything was done legally, were fired immediately when they caught wind of the theft and the cover up. Other low level employees were fired when they went to the H.R. department to report abuses of the OSHA laws, after several employees got injured. The company realized that it was cheaper for them to fire people, and possibly go through a few lawsuits than it was for them to simply do the right thing. Some of the lower level employees could not afford legal counsel, so those people weren’t able to bring lawsuits against the company. So in fact, the company was correct, that it was cheaper just to fire the whistle blowers.