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A question for members of professional associations.

I left my position with an engineering firm a couple of years ago after enduring what was a pretty abusive and corrupt work environment. It was not on good terms when I left. I found out after I left that at least 2 reports were issued with me as the reviewer (not the author) about 3 months after I left. It was used without my written permission which was always required. The reports are publicly available as they were written for a municipality. I found them online by Googling my old email address.

I was going to let it go as they were projects that I worked on and were almost complete when I left.

But now I found out a friend of mine left her position with the same company and after leaving, found out that her professional engineer's signature was used on a proposal after she left. One that she never heard of. And she was awesome to work with and put up with so much crap from the same people I did. I want to support her on this. It seems like this is a systematic issue with this company. They are a large company with dozens of offices across Canada. It also makes me wonder how many private reports might be out there with my name on them for projects that I had nothing to do with.

I can't seem to find much information online as to whether this is illegal and if so, how to go about addressing it. I think that if I contact the company, they will probably just cover their tracks and keep getting away with it. I am also back in the industry with another company, but a small one, so I worry about getting involved in professional drama.

Any advice?