luzula

Aaaaaah. I'm probably boring you with this by now, but: I just handed in the audit report for that organization where I am one of the auditors. Or rather, we handed in the formal audit report and then a more informal critical comment on the audit report from the layperson auditors, to go among the annual meeting documents. It is so hard to decide how political you should allow yourself to be as an auditor. The thing is, besides the stuff the board is actually Doing Wrong that our professional auditor agrees with us layperson auditors on, the problem is that they are making internal political changes in the organization that have not been approved by the annual org meeting, and which are the type of changes that traditionally in our organization are decided at the annual meeting.

And yes, I myself am against these political changes, which is probably coloring what I say, but what's important to me as auditor is that the board made those decisions without consulting the annual meeting. (And that in itself is also a political opinion, because I'm making a judgement about what I think the balance of power between the board and the annual meeting should be.) OTOH, you could make an argument that yes, I'm supposed to examine what the board is doing and give my opinion on it, and then it's up to the annual meeting to make their judgement on both me and on the board, and choose the board and the auditors that they want for next year. And wouldn't it also be a political action not to say anything?

Fuck, this is so hard, and I hate confrontation. *is stressed out*