Posted on 07/18/2014 10:49:41 AM PDT by MNDude
Recently I was involved with a business meeting with another officer of our company with a woman seeking a contracting job with our company.
We went out to lunch for a long meeting to discuss what we were looking for and what she had to offer. After our meeting, she said something like "I'm sure you guys would like to discuss this with one another if I'm a match or not. I would like to excuse myself to the restroom." She then took her purse, put it in the middle of the table and left for the restroom.
We then started discussing our initial thoughts and concerns about our meeting with her. A while later she came back to rejoin us, and later on in the week, she sent us an email discussing possible objections we might have to hiring her.
The guy that I met with is convinced that she left a recorder inside her purse and and then put the purse in front of us to capture our conversation. He says "a woman would never leave her purse on the table with some guys she just met! She was recording us!"
I don't know what is normal for carrying and leaving a purse, so my question is for the women here. How odd is it that she left purse on the table with us while she went to the restroom? Odd enough to have suspicions about being recorded?
‘Ummmm, why would you need to brush your teeth after changing you tampon?’
LOL! Good one.
Now that does sound like someone from England.
Huh. Must be Fried Day.
FMCDH(BITS)
I thought so when you mentioned the purse. Of course, she did.
But...if she did it was illegal because in states that you can record at least one person involved in the conversation has to know that it is being recorded.
My MIL is in a nursing home with dementia/Alzheimer’s you can tell when they’ve progressed to the last stages of the disease when they no longer keep their purses with them at all times.
I think she recorded you as well. I would never leave my purse behind if I was going to the restroom. (What if you guys went through it?) Then you would know our secrets! LOL. Also, I would not have left an interview to use the restroom. Weird.
“If there was a recording device, then it is likely anything she gets would be totally illegal to be used in any way as doing such a thing is a felony in many places without your knowledge.”
That may be absolutely true. It could also cost you big five figures to escape a lawsuit destined to fail, if brought.
Haha...what are laws in your state regarding recording someone? You better start researching. I ONLY leave my purse at a table with my husband....and NEVER on the table...yuk...
Yes, she was recording. Why didn’t you suspect it immediately?
Ha ha—too true!
I had her pegged for recording you the second you said she put her purse on the table. There should not be any question for you two never hiring her because she’ll have every inch of her office bugged and sue the company to extinction within two weeks.
I assume you'll never be able to prove she did this, but you didn't shouldn't hire her.
Actually, I normally call it a ‘dunny’, but so few people understood what I meant when I used it previously I went with the other one.
I was just thinking, if you said something that she could find fault with your defense could be that you knew you were being illegally recorded and said that stuff on purpose.
P.S., why would it be known as a Sugar Biscuit?
“Limeys” don’t refer to others as POHMmies. Pommys, pommies, poms -the spellings are myriad.
Yes you were recorded and she told you to discuss her!. Women never leave their purse with strangers. You’ve been had!
I work with men only, every day-and I never take my purse to lunch, to a meeting, etc-only my wallet-even on a jobsite, the purse stays in my truck. My cell phone is in a case clipped to my waistband. But given a golden opportunity like you’ve described, I’d have left the purse in my chair-with the recorder on, of course...
:-)
As numerous posts have pointed out recording you would be illegal so anything you said can’t be used as evidence and she can’t admit that she did it. But she can use whatever she heard to try and maneuver you into saying something she can use against you in a situation that can be used as evidence. Illegal wiretapping isn’t entirely useless. Be careful.
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