Mystery Men

NB I did not feel bad for the boss who was an arsehole, but for the temp worker who had only been working there a week.

I don't do anything anonymously because I don't really believe in it, but as I said in the other thread I can understand why someone would for fear of retaliation. NOTE THIS DOES NOT NECESSARILY APPLY TO WHAT I SAID ON OTHER THREAD! But if you are either saying something against a person who has a history of very wicked, bad, headache inducing retaliation or if it is something that you think will cause you to lose your job or be passed over for promotions, then it makes perfect sense to do what you have to do to protect yourself while still having your piece.

I just happen to be the type of person who doesn't care about consequences. That does not make me right and someone who does wrong though.

I'm biting my proverbial lip now.............again

Well, one time my roommate and I in sophomore year at UCLA proceeded to torment a hateful nerd by signing him up to a slew of magazine subscriptions, of course done anonymously. If only they hadn't traced the postmarks.

Ned, never fuck with a nerd. They will spend their lifetime trying to solve the mystery. The longer it takes, the angrier they get.

Here I am consistent in my (semi)anonymity. I don't do nasty things to people, although like many clever females I am often accused of Borgia- like behaviour by insecure males.

However, I have one exception to this. Eevil beatch who was an ex (but still 'friends') with a boyfriend of mine, WHILE I WAS DATING HIM, introduced him to single girls purely to split us up/show her disapproval of me. My anonymous revenge was to sign her up for Dateline, using plausible answers (SWF WLTM PhD 30-35) and supplying both office and home numbers and addresses.

The nice Dateline folks rang her at work (2-person office where assistant had to answer all calls) so of course it was all over central London by lunchtime. Of course she called my boyfriend and demanded to know whether I had done this thing, like he was psychic. She basically flipped into a big hissy fit of the Outrageous! Mortified! variety, like what happens when popular girls in high-school sitcoms/Buffy get comeuppance.

I just couldn't resist because it was like skywriting GET A LIFE over her house or something, and took 5 minutes of non-rocket science thought.

Once when I was working at Buttfuck University, I reported the mistreatment of a black colleague to the university's Affirmative Action office. They said it would all be confidential, and by law, I am supposed to be protected from retaliation, but that's all a bunch of bullshit, because they found a way to retaliate against me *and* continue the mistreatment of my co-worker. I guess you can do whatever you want as long as someone doesn't tape you calling someone a "nigger".

Hey, *I'm* fairly nerdish. But I don't spend lifetimes. ;-) Besides which, had you known this guy, you would have agreed he deserved the hassle.

I was hoping this was going to be about that film!...oh well, I've used different names on the 'net from time to time, but I always made sure people could easily tell who I was.

As I'm sure Emma and Tom will corroborate - I wrote the college gossip magazine anonymously for about six months (actually by the time Emma turned up I think it was general knowledge). It was amazing how people who had told me the gossip could never work out who was writing it. It gave me great faith in the stupidity of people, let alone the proliferation of gossip.

Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofolo and Hank Azaria. Now that's a movie.

i say confession anon.