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June 02, 2003

The Electronic Noose

Call me paranoid, but working around here will to that to a person. I may very well be unconsciously succumbing to the temptation to exaggerate for effect.

But this little weirdness just started today; I only caught it by fluke.

I happened to open the printer status window, and noticed that extra copies of things are being printed when I send a print job. Two extra copies. Consistently.

When I go to the printer, only the copies I printed are there.

Later today, the Boss, in passing, made a comment on the paperwork I'd been working on.

Now, I do email copies of that paperwork when it's done; and since Boss is {apparently} BCC'd on everything, Boss could easily have seen the paperwork as an attached file. Easily. And the extra copies showing up in the printer status window could be some weird glitch. So I can't really jump to any conclusions from the premises I have so far.

Unless we accept the basic premise of Boss tightening the noose of control as a mathematical constant, represented by the symbol "noose"...

Posted by edgar at June 2, 2003 05:51 PM