Patrick's Rants

I haven’t posted much about #2 in a while. Frankly, she was invited to apply somewhere else (your contract will not be renewed) and I haven’t had much to say about her. She’s not there. But an article on email snooping has made it onto my radar. Sometime in March or April my boss called me into his office. First let me say that I have a hard time covering my disdain or dislike for someone. I tend to talk to people I don’t like in an abbreviated manner – I’m just not a chatty guy with people I don’t like I suppose and there was always a serious amount of tension in the dispatch office. I was shown a letter that essentially boils down to a written reprimand over my “treatment” of #2; I wasn’t “getting along”.
In the course of discussing the letter and all that it contained my boss told me that a copy of my IM log had been given to him. While not directly mentioning anyone’s name I casually (I thought) queried about ebay being blocked while craigslist was not with a member of the Tech Services department. The following day craigslist was blocked and then it opened back up a few days later. Although it could have been something that hit the front page of craigslist that got caught in the filter it was implied that I was the one that caused this one web site to get placed in the filter.
Reading the linked to article causes me to wonder if #2 didn’t violate the law when she reviewed my logs and even went as far as to print them out for the boss (and probably keep a copy for herself) This wasn’t her conversation after all. The potential loophole for her is that we use the same login. Oh well, I’m glad she’s not there anymore.