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 Author: J Saunders
Title: Kims New Experiences
Part: 03
Summary: Kim finds her first job boring at first, but soon things pick
up and she can hardly stay away (even if she desperately wants to).
Keywords: mf, blackmail, humil
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Introduction: All good things take time, the action does come.



   Kims New Experiences - Part 3

   My alarm goes off and shocks me out of my nightmares of Jake in some
terrible but unknown danger and me trying, but failing, to reach him over
and over again.  I get up and rush through all the pre-work routines in
order to get out the door and to work as quickly as possible.

   But when I get there and log in there is nothing new from Jake.  I
double and triple check through all the new random noise from the rest of
my social network contacts but there is nothing from Jake.  I'm on edge all
day, constantly checking my profile.

   Then in the early afternoon after lunch, which I couldn't bring myself
to leave my desk for in case Jake contacted me, I get called to a meeting.
I don't often go to meetings, my current role doesn't seem to require me
to, admittedly I am new to this whole big company work environment.  There
isn't any information on the meeting invite about what the meeting is for
but I don't give it much thought, I just hope that it wont be long as I
must get back in case Jake contacts me.  When the meeting time comes I head
off anxiously to find the indicated meeting room.

   The meeting is with someone called Peter, he's already there when I get
to the meeting room.  I go in and introduce myself, it seems its just the
two of us.  Peter shuts the door and invites me to sit down.  I have never
met Peter before, don't know anything about him and didn't research him on
the office intranet, being too preoccupied about Jake.  He introduces
himself as head of foreign operations, I'm a bit taken aback.  Why would
someone as high up as Peter want to meet with me and only me?

   But Peter doesn't leave me wondering for long, he gets straight to the
point.  He says gravely that the in-house security team have alerted him to
a breach of security affecting one of the people in his team.  My mind
starts working, perhaps he needs some small PR favour which he doesn't want
to bother my more senior colleges about in the PR department.  He
continues, the employee in question had his personal file accessed and
illegally disseminated, these are his words.  I'm still not seeing what he
wants from me.  He seems to register my confusion, he says, yes there
should be formal HR department involvement and disciplinary process but
that he wanted to come to me directly before going through official
channels in case there was some explanation.  He's read my file and doesn't
want to bring unnecessary difficulties or suffering if it can at all be
avoided, he adds that he is going out on a limb here, the law would frown
on his actions.

   When I hear him say he's read my file my heart start racing again.  What
is he talking about, why would he?  what?

   Then it strikes me like an electric shock, I think I actually jump in my
seat.  He's talking about me, me illegally disseminating, me and
disciplinary, me and suffering, me and being on the wrong side of the law.
I go very cold.

   Now he sees that I understand.

   He says if it were up to him this could perhaps be ignored, he's sure my
actions were innocent.  But there is outside pressures bearing, some of the
banks foreign operations are under investigation by an international
anti-crime agency who are threatening to audit the banks processes and
systems.  They would find this irregularity and want to know what action
the bank had taken.  Even if they found me personally to be innocent the
bank would be in a very bad light for not acting on a known breach such as
this.

   I think to myself that I never even gave what I had done a second
thought in terms of the company and privacy laws.  I had been so focused on
Jake and fear for his safety that it had never even occurred to me that
what I was doing might be a problem.  The fact that I didn't have access
under my login should have been a hint to me but I had been in such a hurry
to get the info to Jake.

   I'm still in a state of shock but the implications of what Peter has
said rapidly sink in.  I'm scared, I explain in a rush why I sent the
information to Jake, I hope I am sounding just about coherent enough to be
understood.  It occurs to me that by what Peter has said he may be able to
stop this from going very badly for me, I can't even imagine being on the
wrong side of the law.

   I plead my innocence to Peter, I had no intention of doing anything
outside of the law or even the rules of the company.  I'll cooperate fully
with anything Peter needs to solve this issue.  If there is anything I can
do to prove my innocence or exonerate myself and the company in any
potential investigation I am willing to do it, Peter must just tell me what
to do.

   Peter doesn't respond immediately, he appears to be considering, then he
starts slowly as if he is thinking out load.  "The issues are complicated,
it sounds like you intended no harm and if you can back that up..", he
pauses, then goes on, "but of course the main problem is an audit by the
anti-crime agency, this is not something I can control".

   I'm close to tears now, worrying for myself suddenly as well as Jake
more abstractly, but I have nothing more to say or rather I don't know what
more I can possibly say.

   Peter continues, "Its complicated as I said, but perhaps there might
just be a way to avoid an audit if we can appease the anti-crime agency."

   He goes on to say he believes the main thrust behind the anti-crime
agencies enquiries is to get the details of people that were involved in a
now old and defunct foreign project for the bank.

   "Unfortunately", Peter says, "the employee who headed up this project
left the company when the project went wrong and he didn't file a full
report.  This same ex-employee is now refusing to cooperate.  The
anti-crime agency can't pursue him directly so they are putting all the
pressure on us, the bank.  If we could get Rick, that's the guys name, to
cooperate or simply give us the names of all involved then we might be able
to avoid a run in with the agency.  But its a long shot."

   I ask Peter desperately "Why won't Rick help?"

   "I'm not sure, Rick wont even talk to me about it, but I suspect its got
to do with his treatment by the bank.  Something must have happened before
my time here." Peter lies.  He goes on, "I don't know how you might, but if
you could get Rick to talk about it he might just give enough information
to put off the audit.  Although I don't know how you would get him to talk
to you, he wont talk to me as I say, nor anyone from the bank."

   I'm willing to try anything to avoid the law and jeopardise my future
career.  But I can't see how I would be able to talk Rick into giving me
anything, I don't know him of course or anything about him.  How would I
even meet him if I couldn't say I was from the bank.  I say this last
thought out load without realising it.

   Peter says "Oh that's easy enough, Rick likes to hang out at Slims Bar
and Grill downtown, or so the crime agency told me.  They said just about
any night he can be found there.  The hard part would be getting him to
talk about the project while not letting on that you are related to the
bank."

   I decide straight away that I must give it a try anyway, I can't risk an
audit or any trouble.  I beg Peter to delay any further action on my
indiscretion, I'll go tonight to talk to Rick and see what I can find out
and report back first thing.

   Peter says "Well its a long shot as I said, but the bank would be more
than grateful and so would the agency.  I'm sure they would overlook your
problem if they had the info.".

   We agree that I will report back to Peter first thing in the morning,
Peter can delay any further action until tomorrow but he's not sure how
much beyond that he can do.
   To be continued.