Chapter 23 - The employees get paid
The wage-and-hour settlement took longer than Helena’s criminal plea.
Thirty-one current and former employees received payments.
Smallest:
A few hundred dollars.
Largest:
Just over $11,000.
Samuel Reed, the former houseman, received compensation for disputed corrective hours and bonus loss.
He called me after.
Not to thank me.
“I want to ask you something.”
“Go ahead.”
“Did Helena invent all of it?”
“No.”
“What do you mean?”
“The family office allowed enough of the system to function that payroll processed pieces of it.”
Silence.
Then:
“So it wasn’t just her.”
“No.”
“Good.”
That surprised me.
“Why good?”
“Because when companies blame one person, they usually build the same thing again under another name.”
There.
A former houseman taught the Belluccis governance.
I wrote that one down too.
Mansion Service Management was reorganized.
The division disappeared as a single power center.
Household staffing moved under professional HR.
Fleet under operations.
Maintenance under facilities.
Private event services separate.
No one person controlled:
Schedules.
Discipline.
Bonuses.
Housing.
Vehicle access.
Property-loss decisions.
The system became less elegant.
More annoying.
May you like
Safer.
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