Desperate people do desperate things

It was January 2020 and on its twentieth day I finally got my notice. Without the possibility to comment on it, without the possibility to defend oneself or defend oneself with evidence. Task accomplished and the interested super-humans were incredibly relieved.

The notice was delivered on time, even 5 days before the latest possible deadline!

And so their collective efforts have finally fruited - #RC( "Remotely controlled"), he gave him his story worthy of my contempt, #LA ("Leklá Andělka"), she inspired him with the right legal opinion and polished it paragraph by paragraph, and #KF ("Kristína Fšecko"), she with all the weight of her job position approved it with her signature.

They felt happy, successful as growers and mainly above all untouchable.

Like fruit growers? Good. As novice hackers? That was already weaker. But with their diligence, they were ready to achieve primacy even in this "hobby". #RC("Remotely Controlled") especially stood out here. With an unquestionable IT background and the ability to do anything for his tribe, he was destined for this task.

When I finally accepted the content and delivery method of my resignation, I decided, exactly on my 58th birthday, to email #KF ("Kristina Fšecko"), whose signature still hasn't dried. In my naivety at the time, I thought that she probably didn't even write this document, produced extraordinarily and probably in a hurry only in Czech. At the same time, I tried to explain to her that she probably did not understand the signed Czech text correctly in English and that I have indisputable evidence for my claim. In order to give due weight to my arguments, I wrote to her that I would go to court with Radio ГA / ГA to clear my name.

I realised that in such an unequal conversation between subspecies and super-humans I was clearly pulling the tightrope and that I might never get an answer. But I relied on the burden of proof that we had prepared some evidence, which I and my sister were ready to bear in its full weight, and I hoped that the idea of possible protracted court battles would not leave them lukewarm, after the experiences from the past.

And so there was a two-week "silence", which was suddenly broken by the Czech-English answer from the most important one:

I thought - fine, finally someone is starting to communicate with us. She even suggests the meeting we've been clamouring for so intensely! I believed that this nightmare would end soon and I would finally erase the memories of this institution from my memory. I'll get well, write a proper "CV" and find a company for which I won't just be an item in the HR system.

I was quite looking forward to starting somewhere again and from scratch.

And so my sister and I read her answer over and over again and suddenly it dawned on us. After all, she uses things in her answer that we didn't tell her about and that we only discussed on the phone or privately outside of Radio ГA / ГA mail. How could they succeed? I could vividly imagine reading internal mail with them, but mail from "seznam.cz"? What about the phones?

There was feverish thinking and the creation of various conspiracy theories. As many times as my sister came up with one of them, I naively told her that they wouldn't be able to do that. Nevertheless, I ransacked the apartment, set up a new email account, bought a new SIM card. I even looked in the toilet bowl. Nothing, nothing at all. Still, it kept bugging us, and we switched to "James Bond" code mode just in case.

While we were making the necessary arrangements, Radio ГA / ГA, more precisely #RC("Remotely Controlled"), was already done.

Aware of his indivisible command authority, he came like this on Friday 31/01/2020 late in the afternoon to our former "open-space office" and gave to my fellow administrator a clear order - to change my computer password and give it to him . Even though he himself had enough knowledge and privilege to carry it out, he was happy to delegate this dirty work to someone lower down the food chain. If it comes down to it, he'll have "pilate" clean hands, won't he?

And what was that spell? I'll leave you tense for a moment.

After I took the liberty of addressing the highest of the then newly formed gardening club and hinting to her that I had something more in hand than just her resignation, she called herself, as she herself wrote, the rest of their fruit-union to chat. In the course of this certainly fruitful discussion, a situation suddenly changed - perfect occasion for #RC("Remotely Controlled") to shine.

Equipped with the special ability to read the wishes of his superiors even before they were spoken, he headed to our former office, determined to fulfil this wish as well. "It's either you do it or you're undone," was heard behind him, along with wishes for a successful mission from all the participating fruit growers who had been shunned by this cultivation task.

And a nose of overripe bananas colour shined his way.

It was really a very brave act on his part and only years later I understand how he must have felt. He who, if he was ever pushed to them by events, made all important decisions verbally, or in exceptional situations where there was a risk of misunderstanding his orders, he entrusted them in the form of bare sentences to a piece of paper with our obligation to eat or shred them after reading them, did he decide to take such a risk? But why?

Unfortunately, we won't ask him anymore, because the "independent" lady judge did not agree to his questioning, and the "helpers and protectors (police)", whom I subsequently approached with suspicion of committing a crime due to the manipulation of transmitted messages, supposedly know from experience, that getting a superman from "across the puddle" to us for questioning is truly a super-human feat.

But more on that later.

So, equipped with the access codes to my account, he subsequently arrived at our office on the morning of Sunday 2/2/2020 and started extracting the contents of my PC. Mine? Actually corporate and therefore belonging to Radio ГA / ГA, as #LA ("Leklá Andělka") did not forget to emphasise later during the investigation. And so #RC("Remotely Controlled") appeared on our network under my identity for several weeks, reading my mail and performing unknown and unprofessional interventions on the network to systems to which I still had access.

But how the hell did I figure it out in the end, you must be asking?

On February 17, 2020, I visited my doctor, who was based in the same building as Radio ГA / ГA is placed. After a medical check-up and being issued sick leave for the next period, I went upstairs to exchange a few sentences with my colleagues, whom I had not seen for several weeks. Besides wanting to finally tell them something about the reasons why I was forbidden to go to lunch with them, I wanted to sign the tax return and most importantly - my annual disapproval of "harashment", the most important regulation here! And as we're chatting, I notice that my supervisor #RC("Remotely Controlled") is nervously peeking into the office. At first I thought he wanted to scold his colleagues for hanging out with the "social outcast" during working hours, but then I noticed that he was rather nervous about my presence in my workplace.

Well, we probably won't go to the cinema together anymore, I thought.

So I sat down at my computer, which had been calling me "sir" for several years, and after resetting my password, I saw something that made me very sad. My surprise, accompanied by a few vulgarities that I would not like to repeat here, must have been noticed by my other colleagues. I suddenly saw all my mail accounts on the screen, corporate and personal, including the private one belonging to #RC("Remotely Controlled"), beautifully window by window. In fact, at first I couldn't believe my brown eyes and I remembered my repeated naive defense - "they wouldn't be able to do that".

After all, it's the same thing that those unworthy Russian hackers did to those "at the top of our food chain"! How contemptible and shameful it was, one would like to say! But ugh!

I immediately thought of the well-known saying that the only difference between them is the method of toilet flushing.

That is why I immediately set in motion a series of actions and measures that were criticised by the very people who drafted my resignation and who now "hacked" me. After their initial dismay at how I could even dare to insult them like that, they began to investigate this whole incident on the basis that nothing actually happened. Since I didn't keep it to myself and pressed the "responsible", they rushed to the aid of #LA("Leklá Andělka"), who, for understandable reasons, trivialized this whole incident. The one and only #JS("Joits Smoker") seemed to think this was "over" the line and was inclined to launch into a thorough investigation. After all, it was a problem of his rival, wasn't it? Thus, a very interesting situation arose, which could be characterised by the saying that "when two do the same thing, it may not be the same thing". What was spicy it was the expression of #LA("Leklá Andělka") that I actually committed the same offense by actually having the possibility to read #RC("Remotely Controlled") mail on my computer. Just a lawyer cunning with all the ointments.

To prevent a similar "faux pas" from happening in the future, #MS("Mr.Sushi") hastened with other, now last, obstacles on the employer's side.

At the end, #RC("Remotely Controlled") was accepted by them and so he blocked me from all access to all systems, including the building.

Like little children who wants the "devil" to disappear, they closed their eyes with their hands and kept repeating to themselves that the "devil" was never here.

And so I was relegated, in order not to further harm the godly mission of Radio ГА / ГА, after 15 years of working for it, to move around the building only accompanied by at least two burly bodyguards.

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> Dear Mr. XXXXXX, > > following our conversation on 17/02/2020, during which you gave me > Confirmation of illness for the period from 17 to 21 February and informed me of your intention > to return to work from February 24, I consider it necessary to inform you that > you are no longer required to perform work according to your employment contract with > Radio ГA / ГA - see attached letter. > > The employer has also decided that since it is not from you > still required to perform work, you will have access to the building with > accompanied. If you want to visit the building, it will be necessary, > to ask in advance either me, a colleague, or someone else > employee from HR (who will be my representative > next week during my absence) so that your possible visit > enabled. > > For the same reason, you will no longer have access to your Radio ГА / ГА> email account. Please send me your personal email address for > future communication purposes. > > With thanks and regards > > Mr. Sushi > > Dear Mr. XXX, > > Based on our conversation dated Feb. 17, 2020 when you gave me your > Sick Leave Confirmation from Feb. 17 to Feb. 21 and you informed me > that you intend to return to work on Feb. 24, I need to inform you > that you are no longer required to perform your work based on your > employment contract with Radio ГA / ГA - see the letter attached. > > The employer also decided, because you do not need to work any longer, > for you to have an escorted access to the building. This means you > need to ask in advance myself, colleague, or someone else in > HR, who will be my substitute next week during my > absence, if you want to enter the building, so we can arrange for it. > > For the same reasons, you will cease to have access to your Radio ГA / ГA> email account. Please send me your private email account for future > communications. > > Thank you and kind regards > > Mr. Sushi

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If by any chance someone wanted to tell me something by email, like #JS("Joints Smoker") even related to the results of the investigation of the incident, or let alone send a request for consent to access my personal files, he received the following response:

Holt, if inactive, it's inactive.

Since their (non)investigation was very difficult, I turned to the police with a criminal complaint against an unknown perpetrator for "Suspicion of committing crimes listed in Act no. 40/2009 Coll. - Criminal law against the rights to the protection of personality and letter secrecy". The development of events has convinced me that it is impossible to negotiate with them and that there is no point in delaying. Therefore, I additionally filed on 20/03/2020 "An employee's lawsuit for the invalidity of the termination of the employment relationship by notice (according to § 72 of the Labor Code)" and on 19/03/2020 "An employee's lawsuit according to § 10 par. 1 of Act no. 198/2009 Coll., on equal treatment and on legal means of protection against discrimination and the amendment of certain laws (anti-discrimination law)", as a result of the behavior of Radio ГA / ГA and their representatives towards me in the area of bossing, sniffing and stalking.

I will bring further information about the events during this court case next time, because I don't want to put you to sleep with a long reading. But I promise it will be an interesting reading again.

As a small tasting of the events to come, let the phrase #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko") be quoted:

There is a judge in Prague X who is curious about your claim for discrimination. You'll be surprised how quickly you'll be swept away.”

But more on that next time, if there are any more.