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Monday, July 26, 2010

I should have known when the subject said XXX

This morning was like a typical Monday morning. Get up, get dressed. Roll into work. Have a tasty breakfast at my desk as I peruse over any emails that may have come in. It was all going well, nothing out of the ordinary, until I saw THIS pop out at me from my inbox:




Yes, what you are seeing is a naked lady. I added the strategically placed paint blobs to make this post PG. And see how her crotch is cut off at the bottom? Well it's really all there. All of it. At first I didn't know what had happened! Did I accidentally click on some sort of porno link? Did I subscribe to a Playboy listserve? Is an arch enemy setting me up to be fired?

I scrolled down in the email and oh dear Lord it got worse! There were full on frontal photos of about 100 11 women. It was a lot of boobs! And other parts! This was the next photo:



It was sort of intriguing (from a practical sort of way) about how well, uh, manicured these women were, so I was sort scrolling slowly half in shock and half in intrigue. Just then our CAD tech knocks on my door and walks in. Now, I have no clue how much he saw. I minimized as quickly as I could, but for a split second, there was a totally naked woman on my computer screen and I was appearing to be studying it. AWK. WARD.

The CAD tech didn't say anything and those who know him know that he probably would've said something if he saw that. After he left, I went back to investigate just how I ended up with this craziness in my work email. It was sent to me by this old retired electrical engineer who I haven't seen, talked to, or otherwise thought of for oh, about four years. I didn't even talk to him outside of work issues when he was still working for us. He was a shy, quiet, peculiar Chinese man who apparently used to go to photo events where people would pay for the privilege to photograph nude models, or so I'm told. GROSS. Not the models, but the thought of that guy taking the photos.

Anyway, I should've noticed that the title of the email included the words "At the Beach XXX". It was a blind CC and so I have NO idea how these pictures ended up in MY email. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Especially should I be questioned by the work police. I would prefer that my termination papers say something sexy like "Caught participating in Russian espionage" not "Caught studying supposed gay porn by CAD tech." Just so you know.