March 13, 2007

  • laptop nightmare

    apparently what i thought was so random weirdness with my laptop totally took a turn for the worst on sunday evening.  my boss called me on my cell phone and asked if i was okay.  i said, "yes of course".  she asked if ed and i had a blow out fight and i responded, 'no, we're good, why?" then she proceeded to tell me that around 2am on sunday morning someone had sent out several offensive and inappropriate emails from my work email account to her, two emails to a sales guy that i work with which was also cc:ing all of human resources and a meeting invite to all of manufacturing.  the only two words that come to mind about how i felt when she said that was "embarrassed" and "mortified."  i assured her that i did not send them because i was passed out on the couch asleep when those emails were sent out.  she told me that she believed me since i was having connectivity issues with my laptop the week before.  every day all last week, IT had to come to my desk to help me get logged onto my laptop and the network. 

    thank god she called me and let me know what was going on.  i am so glad that my boss went to bat for me with HR and IT.  i spent majority of the morning with IT changing my passwords, giving them my laptop to investigate what had happened and then they proceeded to create a new sign on and building me a new laptop. 

    i've always heard of stories where these things happened in other companies and i never thought that it would happen to me.  i feel like someone was being malicious and decided to slander my reputation at work.  it's not been a great weekend and not a great way to start the work week.  but i am grateful for my boss for realizing that the emails that were sent were out of the ordinary and was not something i would do.  i am still embarrassed and mortified but i know for a fact that my coworkers do not believe it was me.   i am just thankful that this situation turned out all right.  i don't even want to think of what would have happened if it didn't.  i'm just counting my blessings that my boss knows me better than that.