I think that from this point conservative reporters will keep their information on a personal flash drive
“They never seize documents [when you’re let go],” a second source close to the network said.
With all due respect, in a company they ALWAYS “seize” the employee’s work papers and laptop when they’re fired. This is SOP. Unless there is a contract, you are an employee at will and all “your” files, customer lists, electronic documents, presentations, and laptop are in fact not yours but CORPORATE PROPERTY.
This source is either a plant or 18 years old.
“We have respected her request to not go through the files, and out of our concern for confidential sources, the office she occupied has remained secure since her departure,” the rep told The Post.
“We are prepared to pack up the rest of her files immediately on her behalf – with her representative present as she requested.”
This, too, is SOP: the employee is often told by their manager that their job is being eliminated, HR is there to explain ongoing benefits, healthcare, severance, outplacement services, and then the employee is either escorted out or left alone to leave if there isn’t a risk they’ll flip out. Their network access is disabled, ID badge is collected, and (if the company is ethical) they’ll offer the employee the option of coming back after-hours to pack up their personal effects with their manager or security standing by, or the company will box up their stuff and send it home.
To be clear, CBS is a media dump. I have zero doubt that they would LOVE to put “conservative” sources’ lives at risk.
That said, it is entirely plausible that the SOP of collecting a terminated employees’ laptop and files etc. is being hyper magnified with Herridge.
I suspect some of this magnification is because people have little idea that collection of property is SOP. This is the first recession since 2008 and thus it’s been 16 years since we’ve had mass firings. There are a lotta noobs in the workforce. Parenthetically, lots of employees have printouts of the Really Special Stuff. Herridge prolly does, too.
I also bet a bigly part of this magnification is from conservative paranoia. To be fair, it is well-founded paranoia. But as anyone who carries knows, you must ALWAYS practice situational awareness.
Let’s turn the tables: if Geraldo Rivera’s computer etc was appropriated after he exited Fox, and the left got their knickers in a twist, we’d cry BS.
What this story really shows, is how easy it is to trigger some people nowadays. That malleability is being weaponized. If you REALLY want to play out the scenario, be alert for a more important story that will get less clicks because everyone’s navel-gazing over here.
That didn’t help Seth Rich.
This should send out warnings to all reporters to do everything on personal equipment and never on the office’s. Than have back ups for back ups elsewhere. You can not trust anyone.