So I’m a church secretary and when I started working there 6 years ago, we had one credit card account, and the pastor, the head of the trustees, and myself had a credit card with our name on it. It made sense because I often have to put a lot of orders in for people. Now, all of a sudden, the bookkeeper told me the other day that she applied for a credit card in her name, which I think is a little bit wonky because she is in charge of reconciling the receipts. So although I’m not saying this is the case, it does seem kind of not on the up and up because she could basically be making purchases for herself but then reconciling the purchases.

On top of that, now I’ve just heard that she applied for credit cards for three other people in the church. I can’t figure out what’s going on because I don’t mind putting orders in for people, although it would make my life simpler. Anyway, she emailed me and didn’t copy them, so when I replied to her I copied all three of them.

But does this strike anybody else as odd? Again, it’s probably perfectly innocent but I also think that this is a red flag for when people abuse or steal money from organizations.