November 08, 2006
Back-Up
While I didn't really blame Nicholle for my predicament with the emails, I certainly thought it was dumb to leave personal emails on her computer when she quit. After all, she's very computer savvy, plus, she suffers from total paranoid dementia, so it didn't make sense that she would knowingly leave behind any personal information for someone else to find.
It just didn't make sense. She's too smart to leave a trail; she didn't stage an intricate, two-year plan to sabotage me (although I would have to give her props for that, if it were the case),...
So how did G.M. get his hands on all those emails...?
The only answer my friends? Back-up tapes.
Apparently, because he thinks that everyone in the company is a feces-flinging, unevolved, knuckle-dragging, slope-headed moron, G.M. didn't trust that Nicholle -- having given two months notice -- took the time to properly ensure that her replacement would have all the information, training and learning materials that she needed.
So G.M. must have requested many months worth of back-up tapes to sift through.
Christmas is coming up. I think I'm going to buy him one of those books with a map of all 50 states where you collect the quarters from all the states and put them in the holes. Because clearly, this man needs a hobby.
As distressing as this bit of info is, on so many levels, it gets better. Or worse, as the case may be.
I wasn't the only co-worker that Nicholle routinely exchanged very personal, "inappropriate" emails with. And as devastated as I am to learn that she was committing e-dultery on me, I'm even MORE disturbed that other perfectly decent people have probably been implicated in WenchGate 2006.
I know of two, specifically. I'm going to have to ask around and see if they, too, had a closed-door meeting with G.M. recently.
If so, it would certainly explain why I got off with merely a warning and wasn't fired. They probably realize that it's a universal human behavior, and they can't very well fire everyone Nicholle ever talked to. The company would shut down!
Oh, the possibilities are staggering. Like, now that he has me pegged as a Problem Child, is he going to request back-up tapes and read all of my email? Heh. I'll be fired then for sure!
Comments
Clearly this guy overstepped his boundary of responsibility and is abusing his position as GM to get his hands on information like this.
People like that need to watch out for Karma. Because it's going to bite him in the butt HARD when he least expects it.
Posted by: Celticelff at November 8, 2006 05:42 PM