Summary:

Girl is supposed to be at 'Teens Encounter Christ', was probably at 'Teens Encounter Chad' instead.

Body:

I called into the office last Friday for reasons the CEO didn't want to discuss over the phone. I get there and find out that one of the engineers had some IT problems with his laptop. The problems boiled down to the laptop having no more space on the drive. The technician found a truckload of porn on the device, some with what appeared to be underage girls. The technician was taken aback, then noticed the engineer had family photos on his desk. From that and the location of the photos on the disk, the technician determined that the girls phone had synced with the laptop, and copied all of the photos on her phone onto the laptop. The technician promptly locked the laptop in a safe in case it needed to be used as evidence, and called his department head.

Lets call the engineer Bob. Bob goes to the same church I do. His daughter is one of the 'looks like an angel' types. She's petite, has a big beautiful smile, and could pass for a 'good' girl. She also apparently like being spit-roasted by another girl with a strap on and Chad from what was described.

Bob gets pulled into a meeting room with the CEO, myself, the head of IT, and the technician. The IT manager asked Bob directly if he let anyone else have access to his laptop. he said he let his daughter use it for school work. With that admission, Bob's already in a world of shit. Our industry has problems with corporate espionage, and government regulation, so security is a big deal and Bob just admitted he had breached security pretty casually.

The IT manager explains what happening, that the daughter had synced her phone with the laptop and there are a ton of nude and sexual images of her on the laptop. Bob's response was 'Your lying!' My response to that was 'He isn't and this is very serious. Your job is on the line.' Bob turned a deathly shade of white. He wanted to be excused, so I followed him out in the hall, told him to try to keep calm, and that I thought everyone realized it was a mistake compounded by an accident.

Nobody wants to discuss this via email or phone, so the legal council has to drive over. This takes some time. In the meantime Bob is not being calm. He tries to get a hold of the daughter who is at some kind of Bible retreat only to find out that she isn't there. So he calls his wife, who also has no clue, and then mom starts calling her friends. Apparently the friend that picked her up is also not at Bible camp. Then Bob called the police.

Bob came in to the meeting room and related all of this. Up to that point the conversation had been tilting towards 'Wipe the machine, write it up as password sharing incident, Bob gets a reprimand, and it's done.' So after getting the cops involved, we had to do it by the books. The laptop went with the cops as evidence.

Sunday rolled around, and Bob's family was at church, including the daughter. Instead of the radiant good girl, she was looking really rough. The gist of it was that the daughter won't tell them where she was at. Bob was being really noisy to me about 'going after' the other people in the pictures she had on the phone. Just to see how blind he was, I asked him if he thought it was a kidnapping or rape? He said something along the lines of 'That's what we're going to get to the bottom of.' The whole interaction was really weird, and Bob was obviously pulling some mental gymnastics to avoid just admitting that maybe the daughter wasn't being a good girl. I mean, my first thought would have been tell the daughter to straighten up and stop acting like a slut, or get out of the house. Especially with the apparent refusal to tell him her whereabouts for the last week. Bob, though, seemed pissed at everyone but the people he should have been pissed at namely himself and the daughter.

On Monday, I got the mandate to let Bob go. Apparently the old man decided that it was just better to clean the slate with this. A lot of emphasis is placed on the person being fired in these situations. The times I've had to do it, it's pretty rough, and it doesn't get any easier. But it is a rather bad end to a situation that's gotten so out of hand that that is the best solution.

Lessons Learned:

  • AWALT, even the good girls will go wild if they think nobody will know. The daughter probably had Bob pegged as clueless, and she was right.

  • Whoever figured out how to put a camera in a phone assisted in societies degeneracy more than they could have realized.

  • Don't escalate a situation before getting a feel for how it is panning out.