I inherited our poet’s work station, after briefly being
assigned to A’s old desk.
The plan is for me to take over the County Seat beat after
the first of the year, meaning that I’m once again working at the Main Office,
and not just one day a week Harry-Potter-like under the stairs.
A left in such a rush she didn’t bother to clear up her electronic
trail. So, while on her computer I had access to her files, her phone log and
her emails, all of which she comingled her personal with business.
Our poet either scrubbed her computer clean of personal files
and communications, or was wise enough to use her personal email for personal
stuff (or even communications she needed to keep quiet with those outside our
office).
A’s email did have a few interactions with our poet on the
company site, none of which appeared in the poet’s email, suggesting the poet
may have gone through it all in the weeks prior to her leaving our office last
year.
But even the A stuff in regards to our poet had no smoking
gun, no indication as to whether or not our Poet recruited A, nor was there an
evidence to support GA the hometown blogger’s claim that the two made up a bar
hopping tag team.
But A’s emails did reveal an intimacy with some of the
Hometown’s more questionable characters, such as James, Carmelo and the owner
of the social club downtown.
None of this appeared in our poet’s business emails. All
seemed very professional, though I suspect if she was going to be intimate with
any of these, she would text them from her phone or use her personal email
account.
The only email of any use to me was one our poet may have
overlooked when – after our blow up over my leaving her at the Hometown bar – she
suggested we go back out for drink, and my reply that said I didn’t think that
would be a good idea right now and that I would leave a bottle of wine on her
desk.
Since I already had my copy of this communication with her
(which I had supplied the owners with during that time after she accused me of
stalking her and used the bottle of wine as an example, her email was largely
moot.
A’s emails were much more interesting, showing just how
careless she was, and how she tended to mingle her professional issues with her
personal.
The emails showed an inside view of how in only four months
A went from a happily engaged woman, clearly in love with her fiancé to a nasty
breakup, and her later involvement with other men.
There is no proof, however, to the blogger’s claim that A’s
association with our poet had led to this demise. GA claims our poet steered A
into a promicious bar life that caused the break up, and GA even suggested –
without an ounce of proof – A’s fiancé may have been drawn to our poet,
contributing to the breakup.
Neither of GA’s theories can be proven.
But what became clear from her email exchange with her fiancé
say after the breakup is that A had no intention of returning the diamond
engagement ring (worth $10,000, a figure that would keep cropping up.) She
claimed her fiancé had lured her to the New York City area from California with
the promise that he would give her $10,000 if the affair did not work out – and
since it didn’t, she felt entitled to keep the ring – at least, until he came
up with the cash equivalent. She said she had abandoned her friends and her career
on the west coast to come east with him.
His responses showed just how put off he was by her obsession
with money, and perhaps did not realize that his wealth (he was already a
millionaire) may have been what attracted her to him in the first place. He did
note in these emails how she liked to live what he called “a plush life.” At
some point after their breakup in late 2012, she apparently got pregnant with
someone else’s child and had it aborted.
Even though she was involved with Carmelo, the club owner
and others, A was constantly strapped for cash, and made “an arrangement” with
our boss (prior to her resignation) to provide her with “extra work” to justify
extra pay, seeming to echo a pattern our boss engaged in when it came to impoverished
female employees.
How this arrangement with A affected our boss’ relationship
(if there is one) with our poet is hard to say. He clearly interacts with her,
even though she moved onto a political job. Our former magazine editor claims
she say them together at a posh restaurant a few months ago (This may have been
a deception, some bit of information fed to me in order to see if the item appeared
in GA’s blog.)
How much influence outside forces have had on A and our poet
remains a mystery. But we have been playing musical chairs with my move to the
county seat the latest in a series. D was moved to Hometown ahead of the
election to replace A, and may have been part of an effort by these forces to control
our news content.
A’s move to do PR for O in the election was part of this as
well, and you have to wonder if these powers had recruited A when our poet was
exposed (because of the small man) and whether there is any friction between A
and our poet over it.
GA, the blogger, has a lot of theories, most of which I do
not subscribe to.
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