🪞 Mirror Me Blog Series: Portmeirion Scandal — Part XV "Casey Closed: When Staffing Turns Strategic"
🕳️ The Illusion of Help
I thought Juliet was here to help me.
But now I see — she was never helping. She was watching.
Juliet wasn’t just a staffing manager — she was a scout.
And her boss, Mikayla Bordiere, didn’t just “let it happen.” She positioned it all.
But the part no one saw coming?
💼 Dan Casey — works at CFS too.
Same last name. Same company.
And he’s the one I sent my demand letter to.
🧩 Connect the Dots:
I was placed in a role that Jewel already held.
Juliet texted me on January 7, 2025 — she was already watching me.
Jewel told me Juliet reached out to her in December asking about her own plans to leave.
Mikayla, who reports to no one but the shadows, did nothing.
Are Dan Casey and Juliet Casey… Related? Married? Coincidence?
This wasn’t just a bad placement.
It was a pipeline of protected manipulation.
🛑 Why All the Temps?
Let’s back up.
Before this chaos, the AP department only had:
1 AP Manager
1 AP Clerk (Jewel)
That’s it.
But after the previous AP Manager left (the one more qualified than Dominique), everything changed.
Dominique spiraled.
She lost her protector — and started hiring temps like human sandbags.
👥 William Rafferty — hired a week before me
🪑 Me — brought in next
🔁 A revolving door followed
Dominique wasn’t rebuilding —
She was shielding herself.
She once told me:
“I have to keep bodies in those chairs or Paula will take them from me.”
She said it casually.
But it told me everything.
She didn’t want support. She wanted control.
She didn’t want accountability. She wanted placeholders.
🧊 The Real Reason Jennifer Stayed
Jennifer didn’t stay because she was competent.
She stayed because firing her would’ve exposed Dominique.
Jennifer was Dominique’s last defense.
Remove her — and Dominique has no shield.
That’s why two Black women (Jewel and myself) were ignored, excluded, and undermined.
Because we saw too much.
And we were never part of the plan.
🧠 Spot the Narc Traits:
🧩 Coordinated silence
🫥 Strategic under-qualification
👁️ Surveillance disguised as concern
🔄 Revolving-door hires to mask instability
🧑🏽💼 Diversity optics, not inclusion
💼 Internal gatekeeping under the guise of HR/legal protocol
✍🏽 Journal Prompt:
Have you ever been encouraged to trust someone — only to find out they were planted to observe or report you? What shifted once you realized it?
💬 Daily Affirmation:
“I am no one’s placeholder. My story doesn’t need your permission — only my permission to be told.”
📌 To Be Continued in Part XVI:
We expose the real exit strategy behind Dominique’s team — who ran, who stayed, and how the “Casey Connection” was never about resolution... it was about protection.