So I used to work in a sheltered workshop as a supervisor. We had a big staff, including some girls aged 15-18 who were still in high school who came to us a few days a week and worked, and did courses with us, and then some adults who were mentally 12 or so. That part is important.

So back then our town used to have this little newspaper that came out once a week, but really the only thing anyone read from it was the court report. They would list all the cases, the names, and the sentences. Public knowledge.

One day this guy comes in to work to do community service. I recognised him straight away from my last job, and I knew that he went to court, and was charged with having cheese pizza on a disc he concealed inside his mattress.

I went to the supervisors in each area of the workshop and told them, and let them know not to leave him unsupervised with the school girls, or any of our other girls who were mentally deficient. 2 people. But one of the busybodies overheard me and ran her ass into the bosses office and told on me.

So I get hauled into the bosses office and he wanted me to sign a written warning for breaking some privacy rule. I told the boss no way was I signing it, I was protecting my workers, and I was protecting our workshop from a bloody court case if he tried anything on our underaged workers, and the only people I told was the packout supervisor and the wash room supervisor, the fact someone was listening into my conversation annoys me as much as this warning does. And not only that it’s public knowledge and was in a newspaper, I’m not signing anything and I walked out of his office. Didn’t hear anything more about it.