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FIVE MINUTES TO CLOCK OUT · The Timekeepers Dilemma

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The timekeepers dilemma, true crime tales, workplace crime, passion, and running out of time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: David Holloway had been a supervisor at Harrison Manufacturing for nine years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was respected but demanding.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Employees complained about him constantly, but nobody doubted his work ethic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: David noticed something strange in the company's payroll system.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: were still receiving payments.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The amounts weren't large, but there were dozens of accounts, David printed the records.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He planned to bring them to corporate headquarters.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Before he could do that, his boss called him into a meeting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You need to let this go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The boss said, David refused.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I can't.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: His boss stared at him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't understand what's at stake.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: David left the office.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He called his wife.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I found something big.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He said, then he lowered his voice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think somebody knows that was the last normal conversation David ever had.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At 455 p.m., employees began preparing for shift change.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At 457, David entered his office.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The security system recorded someone entering the administrative hallway.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At five o'clock, the factory clock sounded.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Shift change.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Workers fled the hallways.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Five minutes later, David's office door was locked.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody answered when employees knocked.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At 512, security opened the door.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: David was gone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: His computer was still running.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: his coffee was still warm, his wallet was on his desk, his keys were on the floor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But the payroll records were missing, police arrived, the building was searched, there was no David, investigators checked the security cameras.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They discovered something disturbing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At exactly 459 p.m., the cameras in the administrative hallway went offline.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They came back online at 506, 7 minutes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That was awesome one needed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The investigation police examined the company's access system.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Only four people had the ability to disable the cameras.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: David, the plant manager, the IT administrator, and the company owner.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The plant manager immediately blamed David.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But investigators didn't believe it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Davis' wife told detectives that he would never abandon his family.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then detectives found something on his home computer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A draft email.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was addressed to a federal investigator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The subject line read, Payroll fraud, urgent attach were hundreds of documents.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The company had created fake employees.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Their salaries were being deposited into accounts controlled by people connected to management.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The theft had been going on for years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: David had discovered it, and someone wanted him gone before he could expose it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The clock investigators eventually discovered a hidden room inside the factory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was an old maintenance office that had not appeared on current building plans.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: inside were boxes of documents, and David, alive, weak, terrified.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He had been held there for several hours.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: David identified the person responsible, the IT administrator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The cameras had been disabled using his credentials.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But the investigation uncovered something even larger.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They had planned to frame David for the payroll scheme.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Their plan was simple.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Make David disappear.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Make it look like he stole the money.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then closed the investigation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But David survived.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the clock worked against them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every minute they believed they had erased became another piece of evidence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The payroll scheme was exposed, millions of dollars were recovered, David returned home to his family.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But he never returned to Harrison Manufacturing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He couldn't.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The company that had once been his career had become the place where he nearly lost his life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Years later, David still kept one object from that final day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: His employee badge.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It had stopped working at exactly 502 p.m.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He kept it because of what it represented.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not the company, not the job.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The moment he realized that time could work in both directions, you could spend years building something.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And someone can spend seven minutes trying to destroy it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is the dilemma of the timekeeper
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every employee watches the clock.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every shift eventually ends, but when secrets are involved, nobody knows exactly when the clock starts counting down.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes, by the time you realize you're running out of time, there are only five minutes left.