Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you knew that texts existed showing your former employer had tried to destroy your reputation while you still worked for them, in order to discredit you do that people wouldn't believe you if you went public with allegations about potentially harassing behavior by your employer, you would also want your lawyer to find a legal way to obtain those texts without tipping off your former employer.
I think a lot of you are hypocrites. You don't like Blake, which I get, so everything her lawyers do is bad. But the reality is that her lawyers used a clever, and legal, strategy to get needed evidence they knew existed. They did their jobs correctly.
And how would you feel if your former employer did this to you?
Did what? If my former employer wanted texts where I'd smack talked them and those texts were on a company-owned device, they wouldn't even have to subpoena them -- they'd just take them. If they wanted texts from a personal device they'd have to subpoena them from me directly, not from the company I used to work for (which is them), and so of course I'd know about the subpoena.
This all happened because Jennifer Abel, stupidly, texted a bunch of stuff about her employer and boss on her company-owned device, plotted to leave the company and take a major client with her, and that major client also, stupidly, sent texts about their scheme to try and destroy Lively's reputation in the press, which also wound up on that Jonesworks-owned device. Everyone involved in this situation had the option of NOT saying these deeply incriminating things in texts from or to someone's employer-owned work phone, but didn't take that option.
Actually, let me amend that. If you pay close attention, you'll notice Jamey Heath frequently tells people via text that he'd like to speak to them directly about sensitive subjects. While Abel, Nathan, and Baldoni all have very incriminating texts from Abel's Jonesworks' device, but Heath does not. At one point Nathan references would would be a VERY incriminating conversation between Heath and Jed Wallace (something about how Heath has spoken to Wallace about the tactics they are using on social media to ensure they cannot be traced back to Wayfarer) but Heath doesn't say it.
So I guess that's a long way of saying that if my employer found a way to get some texts of mine where I said a bunch of stuff that would enable my employer to sue me for contract violations or harassment, it would be a real FAFO moment for me and would make me question some of my past choices.