Here in Peep Town
“FBI is a gang of professional criminals paid by the government to break the government’s own laws. FBI itself is above the law. It buries its agents so deeply in anonymity that they can’t be identified by any central authority. They operate freely, unconstrained by oversight or accountability. Is it any wonder that some of them, armed with the most sophisticated privacy invasion tools in existence, use those tools for their own ends?”
“No one will believe you.”
The Postal So-called Police
Captain Chappaquiddick
Faggy Boys Inc.
Our Elected Representatives
A Peepie Primer
Robert the Pervert
The Three Stooges
I Telephone the President
An Arrest?
How the Peepies Enforce
Mob Rule
Considering a Career?
Senator Couldnthelp
Circus Life
A Love Letter
Hal the Pig, CPA
American President Lines
The Cable Guy
Hard Work Pays Off
A Visit from the Plumber
Freaky Me
The Casting Couch
Peep Town Now
How APL Engineered a Termination
The problem was, how do you get rid of someone whose work is satisfactory? You needed a good reason in order to avoid getting sued. Here's how APL solved the problem.
You have to create a situation in which the employee can be legitimately blamed for doing something wrong. Therefore, you have to create a situation which will predictably and inevitably lead him to do something for which he can be reprimanded.
The first and most crucial step is to tell him that he now reports to someone junior to him. This move sets the stage for everything that follows. In my case I was told to report to a fellow who didn't supervise anyone and who was clearly my inferior in education, training, experience, and ability. This dude wasn't an evil person. I actually felt kind of sorry for him. He was being used by management as a dupe and he never had a clue.
The next step was for management to instruct this freshly minted "boss" to issue me a set of orders that were unnecessary and unreasonable, all delivered in a "do-it-or-else" tone of voice. This was accomplished in a series of conversations stretching over several weeks. I don't recall exactly what were the issues that got raised. Suffice to say, none were important. I vaguely recall something about replying to emails. I do remember telling this individual, who was addressing me as rudely as he could, as gently as possible, "I don't care about you."
You get the drift. The "boss" was told to create a series of confrontations, each one designed to provoke me into saying or doing something I could be blamed for. Three such incidents were enough to satisfy management. With the first incident came a warning, then a second warning coupled with a reminder of the first, and finally a suspension letter.
The suspension letter was the last step in the process. It was written in such a way as to make the employee believe that he would still have a job when the suspension ended. Of course, that wasn't true. The hope was that he would be so demoralized by the fake suspension followed by a surprise termination that he wouldn't retaliate with a lawsuit.