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| June 28th, 2006 I was thinking about it today, and my office has three Matts. Great. I'm back up to nine Matts at this point, and I think I might have forgotten one or two. Much as I would love to call a moratorium on the Matthews, it's really out of my hands. So, I found out this week that IM can really get you in a lot of trouble. And by 'you' I mean 'not me.' Lemme 'splain. So, at my last job, we used IM to keep track of each other and talk bidness and such. Well, a cow-orker and I pretty much chatted every day. And by chatted I mean she did a lot of bitching about our boss. Don't get me wrong, I did my share of the bizznitching, but she would really fly off the handle quite a bit. Many times, she would get mad at me for not instantly agreeing with her and proclaiming him Asshat of all Asshats. I actually spent a good amount of IM time trying to convince her he wasn't out to ruin her career, and he was really just a poor manager, not a malicious jackhole. I was kinda wrong about the malicious jackhole part, but I'll get to that. So, I get my spiffy new job and before I leave, I proceed to clean all traces of me off the work laptop. Or I thought I did. Apparently, removing Trillian from the 'puter doesn't always get rid of all the files. I even emptied the recycle bin and all that stuff. But in preparing the laptop for my replacement, my former boss found our chat transcripts. And he went fucking insane. He called her into his office and kept her for an hour and half after work one day. He was reading parts of the convos to her. He has since made her life a living hell, and glares at her frequently. That's where I was wrong about the malicious jackhole part. I can't say that most people would have read our convos and immediately thought "Wow, maybe I should work on being a better manager." But I also don't think most people would still be making her life miserable so long after the fact. So, it turns out I was right about him having low self-esteem. I am sorry she is going thru this, but she also tried to throw me under the bus. Not that I really care because I don't work there anymore and I wasn't planning on going back, but it's the principle of the thing. Plus, for all her talk about me being unhappy there and stuff, the transcripts should show that I spent a good amount of time defending him. Not that he probably sees it that way, but it's not really my problem anymore. Needless to say, I don't keep Trillian chat histories anymore. |