Bond … James Bond. That’s how my boss first introduced
himself to me. Really. I’m not kidding you. His name is James Bond and that’s
how I first met him when I interviewed at my company just over a year ago. Of
course he goes by the name of Jim—and as you would guess, he’s not a double
agent. He’s not very suave and sophisticated. As far as I know, he doesn’t have
any noticeable ass-kicking skills. But he does have something that the
fictional James Bond has: an app to get someone elses text messages.
Yes, Jim Bond, Regional Sales Manager for generic paper
goods is indeed a spy. Just not a super spy. You see, I recently learned that
he was using a one-time subscription free text messaging spy app, because he was doing it with everyone. I can’t judge
the guy. The phones are company property. And every company I know monitors
their employee’s computer and Internet usage—so why wouldn’t they be doing the
same with the iPhones. In fact, I whole-heartedly agree that it’s wiser to so
with them than anything else. Why?
Read on.
Employees take these phones everywhere and forget that the
devices don’t actually belong to them. They use them for work as well as for
personal affairs. They text their friends, Instagram their food, upload their
vacation pictures to Facebook, and sometimes worse. This is where I get into
why you’ll agree.
One of Jim’s sales people was recently caught—by Jim—sexting
an underage girl! And he was doing it on his company phone. When Jim found out,
he not only fired the employee, but contacted the authorities. Now, I didn’t
know that guy all that well, but he seemed okay. Very normal. But man! He’s now
being prosecuted for pedophilia and other sex crimes because of what they found
on his phone.
A female sales person on my team was let go right after I
started working here because she was skipping out on sales calls across the
area and going to the spa, the movies, mini-vacations and more—all when she was
supposed to be working.
And another employee—this time in a different region of our
company—was fired last year for tweeting racial slurs on Twitter and posting
disturbing quotes and memes on Facebook.
Every one of these workers was caught with Jim’s one-time subscription free app to read someones text messages. Of
course, no one knew at the time that he installed it on all of the devices, but
it’s perfectly legal. Thankfully, I never abused my phone. Sure, I send some
texts and check my fantasy football stats out from time to time, but I don’t
look at porn or download anything on it. I use my own phone for that.
So why am I still okay with Jim spying? Well, think about
it. If this was my company and
employees under my watch were doing
stuff like that, wouldn’t I be mad?
These people not only wasted company time and money, but they stole in a way.
One was committing a heinous crime and another was going to start a race war. But
those aren’t the only reasons that I’m all for it, Yeah, Jim’s been spying on
me too, but thanks to my good
behavior, I just got a big promotion. So, there.
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