Terminated And I Wasn’t The Culprit.

Location: Utah. CPA firm. I’m not a CPA. Was recently terminated. Been there 13 months. Replaced owners family member. Up to Month 10 and had never had a reprimand or talking to about performance, behavior, attitude, or critical mistakes. Sure, I’d make small mistakes and rectify immediately. Only occurred once in blue moon. In month 10 at beginning of tax season, payroll lady tells me to give her my logins and passwords to all programs. Boss says yes. I do it. Immediately I start seeing lots of mistakes. Boss is aware. She gets another lady involved and now 3 people doing my job. I’m struggling to keep things straight. My emails have been pilfered through and I never know who’s been responded to or if the tasks are completed. Major issues arise when we see files missing from our clients cloud storage and their original documents are missing. These ladies ARE NOT using their own initials when documenting. They are telling people in the office now not to come to me because I have seen the mistakes and voiced my concerns. They have made it clear that I’m not to leave my seat. I’m micromanaged, bullied, and on top of doing my job, the temp (who was hired every year to help the person in my role) was told to not answer the phone if she is with a client or already on a call. She is supposed to have everything fall back onto me again. So now I’m running the phones, taking payment, scheduling meetings for all office personnel, responding to all client inquiries, printing all clients info for preparing returns, logging in, sending returns to clients, and processing all efiling ( or so I thought). I later learned these ladies were doing efiling and not attaching forms to transmit. And the clients returns will be wrong. Could get sued. The week of tax deadline, I had a medical emergency and ended up in the ER and not being able to work. I was then terminated the next day. (Was not aware yet. They sent a letter and check certified mail. Got it the following Saturday). Saw a surgeon day after ER who said no surgery but no work and home treatments immediately. I learned that they had told all clients I was the reason if there was an issue. Absolutely everything was blamed on me. Also they owe me almost 100 hours of overtime that was earned and NEVER PAID OUT. In January the payroll lady asked if I’d like to bank my overtime as 1.5 hours of time off since I only get a week per year and the summer is slow so we can take more time off. I said yes. I have proof of all hours worked from my first day on the job and each paycheck because I had taken pictures of all time cards and downloaded all check stubs.

So here’s my question. What do I do now? Where do I go from here? First, second, third? I need guidance.

How do I protect myself from any clients coming after me? This company has only 17 employees but they made over $6M last year.