The Incriminating Email

[Jazzy]

The Incriminating Email

You are the network administrator for a rather large company. You have a young family and need your job to support them. Part of your responsibility as a network administrator is to monitor the emails for the organization. Usually this just means occasionally allowing through emails for staff members that have been accidentally blocked by the spam filters.

One day you get a helpdesk request from a staff member asking for an email to get released. Normally it’s standard procedure, except this time the request has come from the wife of a very good friend of yours. You recognize the name on the helpdesk request so quickly attend to the problem. As part of the procedure you need to manually open up the email to ensure that it isn’t actually spam. You find that it turns out to be an email to your friend’s wife from her lover. You scan the rest of the contents of the email and there is no doubt that she has been having an affair for some time now.

You release the email, but you can’t decide what to do now. Your initial reaction is to call your friend up and tell him about the email, however you quickly realize that company policy is very strict about revealing the contents of staff emails, and you will certainly lose your job if your boss finds out.

In any case you know that revealing this information presents great risk, because even if you don’t do it directly, there is a good chance that the dots will be joined somewhere along the line and you will be found out. However you feel that by not telling your friend you are helping his wife to get away with adultery and this troubles you greatly.

What would you do?

 

[Enter Username Here]

I would send it.

Exposure is needed.

 

[Bluezone777]

I wouldn't say anything not only because it would cost me my job but he might not even believe me anyway and that might mean a hurt or lost friend and a lost job as well. People tend to think the best of their loved ones especially when there isn't anything solid for them to believe otherwise. As for the boss, He wants a loyal employee and who wants someone who isn't loyal to upholding the agreement they made when they take a job. Your word has to mean something or otherwise it only means I will do what I say I will do until not doing it benefits me and that doesn't look really good for any boss you have or will have at work.