Journal #50

You are the network administrator for a rather large company. You have a young family and need your job to support them. As part of your responsibility as a network administrator is to monitor the emails for the organization. Usually this just means occasionally allow through emails for staff members that have been accidentally blocked by the spam filters.

One day you get a helpdesk request from a staff member asking for an email to get released. Normally it’s standard procedure except this time the request has come from the wife of a very good friend of yours. You recognize the name on the helpdesk request so quickly attend to the problem. As part of the procedure you need to manually open up the email to ensure that it isn’t spam, so you do and you discover that it certainly isn’t spam. You find that it’s actually an email to your friends wife from her lover. You scan the rest of the contents of the email and there is no doubt that she has been having an affair for some time now.

You release the email, but you can’t decide what to do. You’re initial reaction is to call your friend up and tell him about the email, however you quickly realize that company policy is very strict about revealing the contents of confidential emails of staff members regardless of the contents and unless someone’s life is in immediate danger, under no circumstances are you permitted to reveal the information.

In any case you know that revealing this information presents great risk, because even if you don’t do it directly, there is a good chance that the dots will be joined somewhere along the line and you will be found out. However you feel that by not telling you friend that you are aiding his wife get away with adultery and this troubles you greatly.

What do you do?? (Use spam)

What I would do if I were the friend and found out that the wife was cheating on the husband, I would be shocked. As my job to be in charge of reviewing the emails, I would have preferred the email to be a spam than a message that would affect my best friend. It's harder to tell your best friend something that would really hurt them.To say their wife has an affair would be against your privileges at your work. I would think it's the right thing to tell my friend but the wife would think I am in her business. 

If I did tell the husband about his wife having an affair, I would think they would have problems and I wouldn't want to be the cause of their divorce. On the other side if I don't say anything I can live a calm life with my job. I know that wouldn't be a good friend to not tell him when I found out. But, I don't want to look for trouble. 

What i could do is not say anything and set up a trap for the wife without her knowing. The trap would consider the husband finding the wife red handed. That way it doesn't have to do with my job. The best part is that I told my best friend without him noticing. The plan might take a long  time to prepare, but you help your friend,