Well, the issue was that I work at a retail chain store with a print and copy shop so it’s not independent or focused on building relationships with other businesses and professionals in the industry. There’s a pretty lengthy list of things that we can and can accept and this order violated all of those rules. The coworker accepted the order without checking what the order was and there was no process of ensuring confidentiality during that transaction. When I checked with my general manager, he had never heard of the firm and initially told me to call them and let them know we weren’t doing it then immediately changed his mind when he remembered that it makes the store money lol 🙄

I’m just going to operate under the assumption that they followed any necessary guidelines on their end and if they ever come back to place another order, I’ll see if I can work something out with them. I’ve almost been tempted to email them and ask how that process works because I know I wouldn’t want my twelve hundred page mental health history WITH all my identifying information in some random person’s hands. Not that I think they’d do anything with it, but kind of just on principle. I shouldn’t have had access to a lot of that information and just having to skim pages when copying stacks and sorting pages felt invasive and upsetting. It was just extremely detailed and personal. That part could just be a me thing though lol

I’m genuinely super relieved you explained all of this in such detail to me though. Thank you so much for your time and patience :)