Is my boss breaking the law?

[Anonymous No.25703345]

Guys sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.. but I don't know where else to ask this question. My boss is the director of a construction company. Recently, he sent out a memo to all the project managers and superintendents that any lumber and wood products are to be purchased through a specific vendor. The reason for this is that our company signed an agreement with the vendor where they will offer us good rates in exchange for exclusivity. The rates are pretty good I must say, but the rates aren't the problem. The problem is that the owner of the vendor happens to be the brother of my boss. This must be some sort of conflict of interest. How is this even legal? I hate the guy and id love to get him fired for this but I'm not sure how to go about doing it. Your thoughts?

[Anonymous No.25703418]

>>25703345
I fucking knew one of you faggots would snitch on me. I'll see you in my office on Monday.

[Anonymous No.25703442]

>>25703345
That's called business you faggot activist employee.
Don't like it?
Quit.
Or stay in your fucking lane.

[Anonymous No.25703449]

>>25703345
It's not illegal you fucking brainlet, it's his company and he can make deals with whoever he wants.

People like you need to be shot in the neck or otherwise physically removed from civil society.

[Anonymous No.25703472]

>>25703345

Completely legal, conflict of interest is just some HR shit companies do not to piss off employees yelling about how all the upper managers are all related or some shit and quit because they can’t move up.

[Anonymous No.25703473]

>>25703345
I don’t think nepotism is illegal if it were Jews would be fucked

[Anonymous No.25703498]

>>25703345
He's getting a good deal from his brother, whats the fucking problem?

[Anonymous No.25703515]

>>25703345
He is breaking the law, shoot him yourself.

[Anonymous No.25703518]

>>25703345
how is that shit a crime unless one of both parties is some kind of state owned business?

[Anonymous No.25703521]

>>25703345

If it's a privately owned company they can do pretty much whatever. If your boss is THE director, who is his boss?

[Anonymous No.25703540]

>>25703345
How about just email the CEO? Either it's cleared with him or it isn't.

[Anonymous No.25703564]

>>25703345
are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.25703666]

>>25703345
assuming you're in the US it's not illegal but it's almost certainly against internal company policy, and even if there is not a specific policy in place his bosses at the company probably wouldn't like it very much. if you want to see him fired, you will need to make a stink internally. most companies have internal ethics tiplines that protect whistleblowers, that would be your play

[Anonymous No.25703712]

>>25703345
no I dont think so.
all you could do is to inform the owner of the firm but I doubt that he wouldnt know or even care since as you say the rates are pretty good.

[Anonymous No.25703760]

>>25703515
kek, or this yeah

[Test No.25703767]

>>25703345
You're a piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.25703779]

>>25703666
This is an easy way to get yourself fired and blackballed from the entire industry. Construction companies talk to each other, the other companies are probably doing the same shit, and no one wants to hire a snitch

[Anonymous No.25703815]

>>25703345
>NOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE TRADE DEALS WITH WHOEVER YOU WANT!!!!!

[Anonymous No.25703849]

>>25703345
This is not illegal unless your construction company is fully owned by the government.

[Anonymous No.25703873]

>>25703345
Stop crying faggot. Have more children. Then your kids can succeed.

[Anonymous No.25703905]

OP here. I had fun reading your replies. The situation I described was a hypothetical one designed to get the respones I needed. Here's the true story. I am a project manager for a construction company with full purchasing power. I figure I'll build a small shop on a piece of land I own outside the city, and lease it to my brother for 20,000.00 a month. My brother will set up a shell company "XYZ building materials" and act as a pass through between the vendors I currently use, and my construction sites. Since you said this is not illegal then I guess it is a win win for everyone. I spend money on materials as always, the materials show up to site as always, and I get a nice fat cheque every month with no questions asked. Eat shit wagies. :)

[Anonymous No.25703914]

>>25703515
this, one jew down 5,999,999 to go

[Anonymous No.25703934]

>>25703905
>getting legal advice from 4chan
enjoy prison

[Anonymous No.25703941]

>>25703905
Enjoy the tax rape idiot.

[Anonymous No.25703944]

>>25703905
>Since you said this is not illegal then I guess it is a win win for everyone
Yes, we are all experts in the laws of your unspecified jurisdiction
Talk to a lawyer faggot

[Anonymous No.25703977]

>>25703779
yeah same in most industries that's why tiplines are anonymous, numpy. snitching on ethics violations is a time honored tactic for settling personal grudges or if you want someone's job. it's a dog eat dog world nigger don't be so sentimental.

[Anonymous No.25704019]

>>25703345
kek screencapped, gonna look for 2 last names one with a construction company the other is wood supplier, then gonna send them the pic.
reason is because what they're doing is completely legal and fine, his brother sells wood, he needs wood why the fuck would he buy from someone else you fucking faggot? he needs to fire you.

[Anonymous No.25704038]

>>25703345
>I hate the guy and id love to get him fired for this

Fuck off OP, we all hate people. If you want to get back just drag your ass and collect your check.

Activism in trying to get promoted won't get you anywhere just as trying to shit on someone's dinner plate will.

[Anonymous No.25704160]

Dunno seems legit
If anything your basically hiring to source your materials? Why even set up yard, just straight out hire him to sort your logistics. You give him a list of what you want, he sorts it all out (which you would be doing anyway), whack on couple of percent and Happy days. You may even find it frees up your time which you could use effectively elsewhere and actually save your company money's.

[Anonymous No.25704303]

>>25703345
This happens all the time in business. And politics.

[Anonymous No.25704387]

>>25704160

>If anything your basically hiring to source your materials?
Yes, his shell company will purchase materials from the vendors I usually buy from anyway, then ship it to my construction sites. It's business as normal on my end with an extra stop in between. The shell company will charge a markup of 20 percent or so.
>Why even set up yard, just straight out hire him to sort your logistics. You give him a list of what you want, he sorts it all out (which you would be doing anyway), whack on couple of percent and Happy days.
The yard is there so that the extra markup I am spending eventually finds its way back into my pocket legitimately.

[Anonymous No.25704584]

>>25704387
You are an idiot, this shit just lets you pay more taxes. Shell companies like this maybe worked in the 80s, but nowadays with digital data as standard you cant manipulate it effectivly to safe taxes. Unless you life in a third world shithole of course. You only do stuff like this to trick the goverment to safe ttaxes, there is simply no need to do it in a globo homo economy where you can get cheap wood etc. from underdeveloped nations for peanuts.

[Anonymous No.25704666]

>>25703345
What's illegal about it? Hell I don't even think it's unethical.

[Anonymous No.25704730]

>>25703905
This is a different scenario than what you described in your initial post. This is embezzlement.

[Anonymous No.25705409]

>>25704387
The markup is what can make it illegal, not the nepotism/conflict of interest. But as long as the markup isn't obvious under audit (like, your company isn't paying over market rate in the end, or isn't buying inferior goods for the same price as previously), then this won't be noticeable and should be fine.

[Anonymous No.25705762]

>>25703564
Yea, he really is.

[Anonymous No.25706153]

>>25703345
What is wrong with you?

[Anonymous No.25706535]

>>25703345
>any lumber and wood products are to be purchased through a specific vendor
>brother of my boss
This is 90% of business deals, anon. It's only illegal in government but it still happens there. Roll with it.

[Anonymous No.25706617]

>>25704730
This. OP is a sleazo retard.

[Anonymous No.25706624]

>>25703473
Jews, arabs, koreans, everyone

[Anonymous No.25706707]

>>25703345

[Anonymous No.25706767]

Look up blind bidding in real estate

[Anonymous No.25707079]

>>25703345
I worked for a huge highway maintenance corp. Hundreds of million of taxpayer dollars every year. The director of our fleet of vehicles sends them to be serviced at his brother-in-laws company and they constantly send them back to us without making repairs or with more damage than we sent them in with, so we send them back to him and he gets to double or triple dip on one repair. They also paved all the executives driveways for free and offered them 95% off a purchase of an RV from his other business, some of the boomers took this offer

Nepotism and backroom deals are standard in construction and maintenance industry

[Anonymous No.25707203]

>>25703345
If it's a private enterprise it can make whatever the fuck choices of contracts it wants with other private enterprises.
Otoh, if your company is doing contract work for government some way and the costs are directly passed on to taxpayer monies there might be something to Look at. But that's really unlikely since having a shitton of lawyers is a requirement for doing gov contract work in the first place. Those would be on top of this stuff.

[Anonymous No.25707932]

>>25703905
>4chan told me embezzlement is totally legit
lmao

[Anonymous No.25708377]

>>25703905
>hoi hoi hey guise can my manager make business deals?
>AKSHUALLY I'm da manager and I wanna embezzle money with my brother thanks retards
Want to know how I know you're a retard? The fact you aren't working under the table with your company in the first place.

[Anonymous No.25708490]

>>25704387
>increasing the cost of materials by switching vendors and decreased the comapany's profit margin
>he's going to switch vendors for no reason and it will be more expensive

[Anonymous No.25708778]

>>25703905
I'm a brainlet. What is illegal about this?