Even mention your concerns about a “questionable or blatantly illegal practice to anyone in the company and you will be skewered. Your employee will make you life pure hell, make up a file on you filled with lies, forbid others to talk with you under the threat of their own firing, and complete the process by getting rid of you.

What is accomplished? Nothing Who is affected? You In many cases, your ex-company will even make your life a further hell by “black-balling” you across the industry. Then, nobody wants you, no matter how good you are. And all of this because you saw a practice that overstepped the boundaries of ethics and morals, felt very incomfortable because you were raised to know right from wrong, and tried to do the right thing. In the meantime, the senior executuives laugh all the way to the bank!

If you want to see the worst in people, see sides of people on your “team” you would never have believed could exist, put yourself in one of these whislteblowing situations.

“Sales Rep” is right - 1st, get a lawyer.

Then make sure you have a good doctor, if you’re thinking of putting yourself through that kind of stress.

The power is often on the side of the person with the best documentation, and it’s never too early to begin.

When I read “Sales Rep” say he was getting regular voicemails, I immediately thought, “How many?” If you’re able to show records of what you received when, and when it changed, and what else was happening, that’s one more little point in your favor.

It might help if you just have NO work friends - you’ll be surprised how quickly they disappear anyway.

You might expect principle and loyalty to mean something among people you’re friends with; they do, until principle interferes with self-interest. Then you’ll experience “alone” in a way you maybe never have before.

Even in government, despite the occasional lip service of Congress, and the “Whistleblower Protection (Joke) Act,” intimidation, ostracism, harrasment and reprisal is the rule, not the exception.

There is a book called _The Whistleblower_ by a guy named C. Fred Alford, a political scientist who knows how to listen to human beings (not as common as it should be in that field). Alford doesn’t romanticize what it means to take steps like this. And even when one is vindicated, there are rarely easy and happy endings. I wish you the best. The future of the industry depends on people like you, which means the future of all of us.