# OK, so my boss is reading my coworker's email . . .
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 13, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605 "2003-06-13T16:16:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/141 "2003-06-17T15:47:20Z")
I typoed. It should be **“We can’t COUNT on you… The boss is freaking out now”.**
(My keyboard is set up for French right now, so I have to think so much about the _characters_ I’m messing up actual _words._)
And it was inspired by **Skip’s** Scooby-Doo reference. _alas… wasted on a typo!_
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/142 "2003-06-17T15:58:01Z")
**Auntie Em** , I think **Eats\_Crayons** may be right. She did a runner. At least, I’m hoping. Hey, maybe [she’s in San Francisco.](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/06/16/BA219806.DTL) Then again, maybe this is just another freak… but I read it RIGHT after signing off last night.
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### Author:  [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/143 "2003-06-17T16:06:33Z")
I still found it funny, and if i wasn’t sitting uder a moutain of paper, I’d finish it.
But I am
so I won’t
☹
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/144 "2003-06-17T16:07:27Z")
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> \*Originally posted by auntie em \*
> \*\*Which is another reason I wouldn’t run away without telling someone! \*\*
I appreciate that.
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/145 "2003-06-17T16:17:56Z")
[Interesting, thoroughly unrelated story](http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1052251777945) from up here in Canada – a missing woman was recently found in Calgary, **53 years later**. She’d been living as a “suspiciously clean-shaven” man named Michael for years. “Michael” had been reporting missing by his landlord, and “Mary” was reunited with her family after she was found wandering around disoriented (Mary is 77 now, she disappeared when she was 24). The landlord is glad that Michael/Mary was found safe and sound (though possibly suffering form dementia).
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/146 "2003-06-17T16:18:15Z")
I don’t see her running anywhere without you, **SkipMagic**
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/147 "2003-06-17T16:33:24Z")
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> \*Originally posted by auntie em \*
> **(which another coworker thinks is cancer–he says he can smell it on her)**
Spineless boss, flighty disappearing coworker, cancer-sniffing-diagnosticator…
You have the makings of a sitcom or a soap opera in that there office of yours.
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/148 "2003-06-17T16:42:10Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Maureen \*
> \*\*I don’t see her running anywhere without you, **SkipMagic** \*\*
Although I appreciate the thought (and my pride doth agree with you for its own sake), I humbly suggest that you don’t know **auntie em** well enough.
Heck, she’d run away _because_ of me.
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/149 "2003-06-17T16:46:05Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Maureen \*
> \*\*I don’t see her running anywhere without you, **SkipMagic** \*\*
Oh, and yeah, I guess I really do agree with you: should she hit me just hard enough to knock me unconscious, I most definitely wouldn’t see her running away without me, either.
Or anything else for that matter. 😉
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### Author:  [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/150 "2003-06-17T16:51:22Z")
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> \*Originally posted by NurseCarmen \*
> \*\*Spineless boss, flighty disappearing coworker, cancer-sniffing-diagnosticator…
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> You have the makings of a sitcom or a soap opera in that there office of yours. \*\*
I think it has all the makings of a Lifetime Channel Movie. Just insert a few more characters (nosy busybody neighbor in coworker’s apartment building, handsome single (or recently divorced) private detective, and a mysterious stranger who seems to know more than he or she is telling about flighty disappearing coworker) and you’d have a hit!
I am hopelessly addicted to this thread. It’s like watching reality TV only it’s online and it’s not TV and I’m not watching…never mind…
I really hope she does turn up safe and sound though. Sounds to me like she just took off and doesn’t intend to come back.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/151 "2003-06-17T16:51:53Z")
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> \*Originally posted by NurseCarmen \*
> \*\*Spineless boss, flighty disappearing coworker, cancer-sniffing-diagnosticator…
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> You have the makings of a sitcom or a soap opera in that there office of yours. \*\*
Oh, don’t forget **auntie** and **Skip** , our fearless detective couple.
Will there be a car chase? This story needs a car chase. Or how about a shootout with crossbows? Can’t have too many crossbows in a story.
Wait…do we have a starving kitten or puppy somewhere, with blood on its fur?
How about a mysteriously scrawled note on the back of the drycleaning receipt…“Tuesday, 7pm, Cassie’s Bar?”
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/152 "2003-06-17T17:02:36Z")
Okay, the cancer thing reminds me of a (true) case I ran across some years ago where a woman pretended to have cancer, went to the extent of losing a bunch of weight and shaving her hair and so on, just to cover up for embezzling gazillions of dollars from her employer.
Has anyone checked the corporate coffers to make sure they’re still intact???
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/153 "2003-06-17T17:11:29Z")
Really, **auntie em** , keep good notes. This would make an EXCELLENT mystery novel.
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/154 "2003-06-17T17:49:35Z")
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> \*Originally posted by ivylass \*
> **Oh, don’t forget auntie and Skip, our fearless detective couple.**
::Sigh::
As much as I’d like to be a part of this Poirot ponderance, I’m afraid my character is more resigned to that of, say, the husband of one of them two Nancy Drew broads, Cagney or Lacey. I can’t remember which was married, but it looks like I’m that big husband whose lines are few, acting limited and patience thin as he waits for his SO to come home and blab the day’s details.
Basically, I’m waitng around in this thread like the rest of you. I just have the added advantage of having met all the players (detectives and meter people aside) described herein. **auntie em** is the star, here. (Well, okay, the wacky nutjob of a missing employee is the _real_ star, but I’m gessing you won’t see her post on the SDMB, so **auntie em** is our own Hugger-Mugger Homer.)
All I’m saying is that _my_ workplace has never been exciting!
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/155 "2003-06-17T18:11:21Z")
Waiting with baited breath like the rest of you. This is absolutely fascinating!!! I hope we find out something soon…
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/156 "2003-06-17T18:27:33Z")
I’ve been gone for my entire lunch hour and there are no new details? Da-amn! This is going to be a long, drawn out melodrama, isn’t it?
So has anyone tried e-mailing her to see if she’s checking her e-mail remotely, or has perhaps set up an auto-responder that says “I’m in Tahiti and will be away for two weeks…”
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/157 "2003-06-17T18:34:58Z")
When your manager was checking Missing Coworker’s email, did he check the “Trash” and “Sent” folders also? The “Sent” folder may have copies of emails she sent out recently.
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### Author:  [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/158 "2003-06-17T18:46:26Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Dolores Claiborne \*
> \*\*Waiting with baited breath like the rest of you. \*\*
**ABATED**
man that was almost bad enough for me to send in to Scott Adams.
You are clearly not DNRC material 😛
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/159 "2003-06-17T18:51:27Z")
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> \*Originally posted by MonkeyMule \*
> **ABATED**
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> man that was almost bad enough for me to send in to Scott Adams.
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> You are clearly not DNRC material 😛
Since we’re getting pedantic: when used in that phrase, it should be “[bated](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=bated) breath”. Bated does come from abated, true, but the latter word isn’t commonly used in that phrase. Gaudere’s Law strikes again.
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### Author:  [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-my-boss-is-reading-my-coworkers-email/181605/160 "2003-06-17T19:18:49Z")
:smack:
::scuttes away with tail between legs::
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