First Came The Dodgy Lawyer, Then The Explosively Angry HR Person, Leaving A Whistleblower Techie To Save His Career
The Register, Friday, July 11th, 2025
First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career
This week, meet a fellow reader we'll Regomize as "Boris" who shared a story from his time working at a cybersecurity firm that specialized in email and web security.
His story starts when the company's support team ran a customer satisfaction survey and dangled the prospect of winning an iPad to encourage participation.
"After much grumbling from our notoriously frugal CFO, a handful of iPads were finally purchased," he told On Call. "Naturally, IT was tasked with keeping them safe, so we locked them in a secure safe inside the IT room."
"Fast-forward a year - yes, a whole year - and the support team finally got around to the big giveaway. We retrieved the iPads from the safe and handed them to the support manager."