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  • Writer: RFERL Watch
    RFERL Watch
  • Oct 10, 2024
  • 14 min read

"Where is my home" is originally a song of two stanzas , composed for the character of the blind violinist in Josef Kajetán Tyl's play Fidlovačka or No Anger and No Fight from 1834. The song soon became popular and became the Czech patriotic anthem, then its first stanza became the Czech part of the Czechoslovak national anthem , in which it was followed by the first stanza of the current Slovak national anthem ( Nad Tatrou sa blýska ).



So much for the introduction to my next post today, which basically summarises the main points of our next fight with Radio ГA / ГA, which flared up one March day in the summer of 2023 year. Similarly, as Josef Kajetán Tyl the other day, the censors banned this song from being included in the band Lesní panna or the trip to America (how apt!), it was cut out of songbooks and the censors put it on the list of dangerous writings. After all, even the local trio of the righteous took care of a similarly censorious masterpiece.


As described in one of my previous posts "Give him a muzzle" , my open fourteen-page bilingual email dated March 8, 2022, addressed primarily to their highest superior and to the mailboxes of the then head of Radio ГА / ГА, caused unprecedented thought diarrhoea among them with its content. It was triggered by information describing, with concrete examples, the crystal clear practices and cooperative relations at my workplace at the time, the revealed background of our mutual lawsuits, the suspicion of their strange mutual connection with the local judicial power, and most importantly the detected manipulation of evidence in the files. They were especially enthused by my final determination not to keep these things to myself only, but even more, to feed them to the ears of their funders and anyone who would care to hear about it.



After all, something like BBGWATCH and USAGMWATCH here , which as watchdogs mainly guard the way of using the roughly $800 million USAGM budget, or the money of American taxpayers, while pointing out the oddities in the management activities of their subordinate entities, including Radio ГA / ГA. It is an interesting piece of information that the founding member of this project in 2008 was also the later former highest in its food chain.


At the time, I naively thought that this activity of mine would finally trigger some communication between us. At the time, I still didn't understand how you could simply get rid of an employee without a detailed investigation into the reasons for his termination, basically just an affidavit of the superior, which is subsequently enhanced with "Photoshop" .


How did the Municipal Court of Appeal in Prague state that? That the employer has the right to fire his employee? Basically something along those lines.


And what about the local peak?

After reading this email, she sat down, on the recommendation of #LA ("Dr. Leklá Andělka"), decided to delegate this battle to their contractual law firm represented by #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko"), pilatesically washed her hands of the facts presented here and for this time she left "Black Peter" to their top human resources officer.



After more than a month of inactivity, on April 12, 2022, with the light heart of a superman, she briefly answered the following:



For those of you who do not speak the Anglo-Saxon language, it is simply written here that they are passing me on to their lawyers, thereby considering this whole matter as resolved and they do not want to hear from me any more.

 

I would like to state here that I did not listen to them and in the weeks that followed I shared my suspicions and findings in writing with the OIG and USAGM inspection bodies directly behind the big puddle.

I will report on the result sometime next time.


Hell, I still had the will to negotiate and negotiate.



Searching for a home


As I stated once in one of my previous posts, the actions of the local authorities towards me convinced me more and more that this country is becoming less and less "my promised land" for me. And so, in cooperation with my sister, we began to work hand in hand to regain my "chobol" citizenship, which I had to give up compulsorily in early 1993. Finally, the huge bureaucracy involved was defeated and I was once again, after almost 30 years, regained his revoked Slovak citizenship.

 

I thus became a dual citizen in 2020. With permanent residence in Slovakia, a Slovak citizenship, a passport, an employment contract, a bank account and an ownership interest in real estate in the land registry. I was actively involved in the social life there, in the elections and with plans to move here in a few years and also live there figuratively.

 

I understood the mail from the personnel department of Radio ГA / ГA as a message that if you want something with us, contact "the lamp house", meaning our legal representative #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko"), because "We" have everything here crystal clear and it couldn't be more crystal clear, as a certain Czech prime minister once said in his defence after a certain screw-up in the parliament.


My understanding is that they don't care if I share my findings with someone who "contributes to their milk".

 

And so the day passed, and a week after the answer to my open letter, on 21/04/2022 at 15:10, #MV (“Mgr. Prasátko”) appeared personally at the filing office of the District Court for Prague 10, posted a bond of CZK 10,000, paid at the location of the stamps, filed a lawsuit against me and arranged for it to be heard by the "16C" panel (as can be seen from the filing stamp).



According to the public "work schedule" of the circuit court, the "preliminary" might not end up in the fair hands of this senate, so it was necessary to personally push the luck a little.


Digitisation by means of communication via data boxes had to go by the wayside now.

On May 19, 2022, a "Resolution" in the case of a lawsuit against me landed in my inbox. The text of the Radio ГA / ГA claim was "for the imposition of an obligation to refrain from publishing confidential and sensitive information" .


3 weeks were enough for our group of righteous people of the well-known court panel "16C", discussing all past and future cases of Radio ГA/ГA, to meet, sit and make a fair decision by default .

Obviously to my detriment and again without me.

 

The most unpleasant part of the whole thing for me was the fact that this time the court decided in the form of an immediate "preliminary measure". On the other hand, it must be gratifying for the local people to know how quickly the courts work, especially when it comes to "Aspen" matters . And the reason? Allegedly, journalists would die if someone, I mean - some of their superiors overseas - found out about the background of this whole case. Dying journalists came second, as it always does in similar cases.

Most of this "preliminary" can be read in the post "Give him a muzzle" and instructions on how to arrange the whole thing in a record short time are described here "Mičánecká losovačka" .


You might be wondering why I put all of this in the "Finding Your Home" section?

 

It is that citizenship and permanent residence in another state.


Since I was in the position of the defendant this time, the situation arose that the court proceedings were initiated by attorney #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko") out of custom in the court, which is derived from the address of my residence. This put me in a worse situation, because I had it far into the court file and at the oral hearing of the court, which in the end meant increased expenses for me when actively participating in the court proceedings.


By the fact that I was sued by Radio ГA/ГA in a court that does not have local jurisdiction, i.e. at the District Court of Prague 10, the court, with its preliminary measure - essentially met without me and decided again without me - committed an illegal act against me by having either find out on its own and, even before it starts acting on the matter itself, refer the matter to the locally competent court, or it could learn it from me, especially on the basis of the objection of local jurisdiction, which it must decide on and possibly refer the matter. Maybe even to another court panel. And that certainly wouldn't be the "16C" courtroom!


It is probably naive to think that we appealed against this "preemption" immediately and within the specified period. If we did not do so in time, it would be painted over and their lawsuit against me would be lost on our side. A preliminary injunction is a very powerful legal tool and reasonable courts use it as a saffron.


This is how it's played between big boys and girls!

I think that the above scenario was calculated a bit.


About the arguments we used in the appeal against this "overtaking" - perhaps until sometime next time. The more important fact, however, is that with this timely appeal, we achieved the fact that we were finally able to comment on this lawsuit at a regular court hearing, scheduled for the afternoon of January 11, 2023, in person.


Home in front of me, home behind me


So another 8 months passed and the day before the meeting date we got into my sister's car in Trenčín and set off on another journey, this time a 400 km pilgrimage to the court in Prague.


We had a clear plan - to personally meet the deputy judge of #JH ("Dr. Hustá"), which we were naturally deprived of by the preliminary measure, and most importantly - to finally present our objection of local non-jurisdiction in this matter.

 

For the sake of order, I state that the objection of local jurisdiction can only be made within the first procedural act, addressed to the court (especially the first statement of claim, addressed to the court at its request or even without it). Such a dry theory. I'll see how the practice goes, I thought at the time.


In the hallway, we met #MV ("Mgr. Piggy") in a traditionally good mood and accompanied by a young lady, constantly chirping something and looking up at him with admiration. I evaluated her as a member of his fan club and that he brought her here to the courtroom to show her in legal practice how to deal with "desolates". Later, however, we found out that she was a member of another fan club, namely the #LA ("Dr. Leklá Andělka") fan club, and that the reason for sending her here it was to submit a detailed plastic report upon her return to work.

 

And where was #LA ("Dr. Leklá Andělka"?


Since the appeal we won in the case of "discrimination" at the Municipal Court, Prague she has stopped harassing us with its presence.

 

As is customary, we presented both of our Slovak personal documents and sat down on the bench, which was unusually for us on the other side of the front line this time. The signal sounded and the lady judge opened the proceedings by repeating what we all already knew anyway. Without instructing us about what I am entitled to as a defendant and possibly asking us if we have any comments on the lawsuit, she turned to #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko"), a pile of papers in his hand, neatly tied with a tricolour string and by asking him if he has anything he would like to add to his complaint.


In his typical "Hujer bow", he handed her his papers and started muttering something to them.


In legal practice it's called taking evidence by "short cut", I think. But OSŘ is silent about the "Hujer bow", I know that for sure.

Suddenly, we started to have the unrelenting feeling that this "Prague trip" of ours is developing into a "losing game" again, in which we will traditionally only be in the role of extras. We wanted to prevent this and, not noticing the distinct brownness of his nose, we directly asked the judge through my sister's mouth:


"Your Honor. Should we take this to mean that the court proceedings have already started? Because we would like, according to court rules, to present our objection even before the start of the hearing."


There was an awkward scene when the judge inadvertently crumpled up the lawyer's papers in the silence and pretended not to know what to do with them. The brunette lawyer sits heavily in his chair and ponders the first year of his master's studies in his head, not understanding "what the hell are we doing here this time".

 

Into the long silence that suddenly took over room 302 of the "Mičánecké Factory for Justice", her terse - "Come on, please!" was suddenly heard.

And it was outside.

 

We filed an objection to the local jurisdiction of this court on the grounds that the general court for me, as a natural person, is the district court in whose district I live , so that court should be the District Court in Trenčín. Just in Slovakia.


Mr. Lawyer was about to faint and suddenly felt himself losing the support of his one-woman fan club.

The local arm of justice finally realised that just a moment ago she had dictated the initials of our Slovak citizens into the record and turned to the lawyer, gasping for breath, with a silent question.


You could tell from her expression - so what are you going to do about it?

 

He suddenly realised that his original lawsuit had already been filed in the wrong court and that his desire to hear this "monster trial" in this very court had come to naught. And is the extraordinary measure valid at all?


He has to get out of it! It's on his home-friendly court ground , isn't it? Is it about his reputation?!

The lawyer caught his breath and, in a voice full of suppressed excitement, began to spew out evidence that I must go through this process, until its bitter end, precisely at the District Court of Prague 10 and only at this panel "16C".

 

He started with detailed information about my real estate in Prague 10, about my permanent residence also there, about my account at UnicreditBank and ended it with the transparent argument that all our previous common cases were resolved by the local court!


The last argument from the "legal preparation" category was the first to be thrown off the table with our simple argument - in our previous lawsuits we were in the position of the plaintiff and he represented the defendant, i.e. Radio ГA / ГA, doing business as a legal entity at the address in Prague 10.


The argument of my payment for his victory in our joint disputes from one of my Czech accounts was just as valid as his information about my permanent residence in Prague 10. He knew very well that the concept of permanent residence is "only" statistical data.


And so he got away with the information, which this time made the sledge fall for us.

Suddenly, all the hints about my housing situation from the first meeting in January 2021 before #JH ("Dr. Hustá") about the fact that, even after their dismissal, I'm already employed and I don't enjoy the great amenities of the local people started to make sense to work and that it is definitely not the case that I am suffering from the loss of my job before my approaching retirement, and that there is simply no reason for an agreement and a mutual financial settlement.

 

The highlight, however, was the information of #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko"), which he presented to the judge as a trump card from a nest of lejster, hidden somewhere near its bottom. It was information about the details of the property (apartment unit) owned by me, which he probably obtained through his unceasing diligence from the "Real Estate Registry", including the dimensions, address and registration number. He tactfully kept quiet about its market price , and somehow I don't believe that he wouldn't look for it as well. This information could come in handy for the next time you break bread, don't you think? For example, arguing that I don't have money for some "unexpected" court fees?


Suddenly, the information from the local provider started to make sense to me, that regularly in the morning, after breakfast, in the afternoon and in the evening, usually before going to bed, the "same account" briefly logs in to this web site and carefully monitors the content here.

I estimate the last 3 years and roughly since the "muzzle" preliminary injunction was filed against me.


Additionally, I realised that it was from that list that he must have had information according to which "some unknown pseudo-policeman", in an apartment building with 182 mostly unmarked apartments, could knock on my door and personally deliver to me in the role of postman my dismissal from employment.


More about these practices was described in the article "Inquisitors and heretics XXI. century" .

The judge's reaction was clear. She had the hall cleared and went to the office for 15 minutes to study the real estate cadastre.


His face reflected the tension as before a first date with the vision of a subsequent sleepover in a stranger's apartment.

 

After returning to the courtroom, the judge confirmed that such information is indeed stored in the cadastre.


She remained silent about the fact that this does not confirm anything at all and that in the light of the submitted Slovak documents this statistical information is rather discredited. In addition, he currently did not have proof of whether I am not just renting this property, whether I really have a permanent residence there, whether I, some Ukrainian refugee, or only my fictitious dog sleep here . And so, much to the displeasure of the lawyer, she ended the session at that time and, according to the law, proceeded that to the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic for a decision.


The following part should be listed in the "Useful Links" section, but I am posting it here in response to questions from some of you.



"The court examines the condition of local jurisdiction either on its own initiative or on the initiative of a party to the proceedings. The contention of the lack of local jurisdiction is nothing more than a motion by which the participant invites the court to examine its local jurisdiction. This initiative does not have to be substantiated in any way, for the objection of lack of local jurisdiction, the party to the proceedings does not have to be clear about the local jurisdiction of the court himself, in order to raise the objection, it is sufficient if he has doubts about the local jurisdiction of the court where the action was filed. Objectively speaking, nothing prevents the participant from drawing attention to possible shortcomings of the claim in his first submission to the court, and at the same time expressing doubts about the court's local jurisdiction and precisely because of these doubts, objecting to the court's lack of local jurisdiction. If the court is to examine its local jurisdiction on the basis of such an objection, it cannot do without asking the plaintiff to provide the necessary information. The local jurisdiction of the court can only be examined at the very beginning of the proceedings.”



After leaving the courtroom, we used the unique opportunity to finally deal with the lawyer face to face and try to approach him in the corridor of the Mičánecký complex with a simple question, whether it would not be easier if he met with our Slovak lawyer and discussed the possibilities of an out-of-court settlement together, perhaps in Slovakia, where we invited him.

 

"To Slovakia? Never!" And I'm no "Piggy" either,

With these words, he hastily ran away from us, leaving us, including his one-man fan club, standing in dumb amazement in the hallway of the court here.


It was then that we definitively understood that his participation in representing Radio ГА / ГA in the matters of all our joint actions is taken only personally, and that the everywhere declared morality and honor that he should have in representing his client, as a member, disappeared from his actions as a "Chamber of Advocates" association, to manage and honor it unconditionally.


It is therefore understandable that a time ago we asked this professional association about his behaviour (and not only that).

 

About the result of the initiative and their response to it we will report next time.


Where is my home?


After returning to Trenčín, we compiled all the necessary documents for the petition that had just been filed and we sent them ahead of time to the District Court of Prague 10. We wanted to complete all the necessary facts for the Supreme Court, where our petition from the circuit court was headed.

 

This was mainly a confirmation of permanent residence at an address in Slovakia, a confirmation of regular payment for the disposal of municipal waste there, a confirmation of acquired citizenship of the Slovak Republic and a pledge to the Slovak Republic , a copy of the identity card, passport, extract from the Land Registry of ownership of a share in land and real estate in Slovakia, confirmation of ownership of a bank account in a local Slovak bank, sworn statement of persons confirming my stay in Slovakia at my permanent address, confirmation from the employer and from the personnel department there.

 

According to the well-known saying "he who is ready is not surprised", I started looking for a Slovak lawyer ahead of time to represent me before the court.


It started with a request to the Czech "Chamber of Advocates" association to register him as the Eurolawyer, paying a considerable administrative fee and adding an address for correspondence of someone from the Czech Republic.


The bureaucracy was satisfied and we waited for the decision of the "Supreme Court".


We did not allow ourselves any surprises in this matter.


After all, they cannot force me to defend myself fairly before a court that is not my court and also force me to formally live in the home where my home is not there!

 

A few days ago we learned how it all turned out at the "Supreme Court". And since a little tension doesn't hurt, we'll keep you on your toes for a little while longer.


But more about that sometime next time, if there will be any...





  • Writer: RFERL Watch
    RFERL Watch
  • Jul 14, 2024
  • 21 min read

A grain of wheat is solid and contains life. Whoever has quality grain he or she has a secured future. When a man sows it, he has bread, when he plants it, he reaps a harvest. Grain is a symbol of wealth and life. Grains of wheat represent wise thoughts, kind words, good deeds, rightly used time. Chaff stands against the wheat in the gospel. Chaff is the empty husks from the grain. Chaff is nicely wrapped nothing. Emptiness. It brings nothingness and deepens nothingness. Chaff is everything we do superficially and formally. Chaff are vain thoughts, empty words, gestures without inner content.


Chaff is prayer without silence, decision without thinking, judgment without seeking the truth, giving advice and reason without education and wisdom .



How many chaff were flying over the "Hagibor" plains at the end of 2019, and how many of them are still flying there five years later? So let's try to uncover a few of those forgotten grains and "separate" them properly in the spirit of the previous prayer.


This whole agrarian process broke out "ex post" on 16/12/2019, i.e. after three weeks of intensive investigation by various IT companies, trying to find connections with the botched security incident on the Radio ГА / ГА postal system, which was allegedly carried out by the "Russian hackers" from the group STRONTIUM (aka APT28), controlled this time via the keyboard of their "scoot" by Čuk and Gek from the local GRU. That last time (still in the role of a useful idiot) during the initiative investigation of its causes, I still tried to save the "ass" of my department and thus also its superior #RC ("Remotely Controlled"). And actually my former "alma mater".


The background and reasons were published in one of the previous articles here .


So, sometime in these "pre-covid days" of December, when, coincidentally, the Benešov's Hospital, after a similar security incident on their IT infrastructure, was trying to publicly take such measures so that something similar would never happen again in the future, Radio ГА / ГA tried, understandably in the spirit of its long-standing traditions and the noblest moral principles, to hide and look for the right inner enemy.


It was logical to look at the managerial pressure of the IT director in the person of #RC ("Remotely Controlled") and the personnel and technical equipment of his department, for which he was, in a way, responsible to his employer in the form of Radio ГА / ГA. Not. With the increasing results of the investigation of the invited "anointed heads of IT", another benefit was impressed here, for which all others, interested in this ordeal, were rightly deprived.


It was above all the correct colour of his passport , the traditional Anglo-Saxon collegiality of "being together in good and bad" and, last but not least, his close relations with the local elite and its fan club . Above all, however, to the person #KF ("Kristína Fšecko").


Undoubtedly, the exemplary brownness of his nose also played a role then, and thanks to his unreserved admiration for it, it finally brought its long-praised fruit.

So how was it sown?


For many years, no one held the position of head of IT security here, and according to that, things looked like this in the field of computer security. In addition, this deplorable state of affairs was described in great detail by the commission from the OIG (from the USA) in 2017-2018 in its audit report, and it writes here with great hope about the need to fill this position (you can find more information here , including their official report published here).


The first attempts to fill this position also began in these pivotal years, when a very skilled Czech specialist joined the company, but after a few months he voluntarily left to work in Switzerland, where he began to build his career as a security specialist.


It was just a shame that the company was not able to keep such a quality expert here. That money again?

He was succeeded by a Romanian specialist who, after several months of imitating work and after smoking several cartons of cigarettes on the local terrace, was "left" after an alleged cryptocurrency mining affair at his workplace. During working hours of course.


And so, in 2018, #JS ("Joints Smoker") appeared. He worked here until 2020 and with whom I had the opportunity to work successfully until my last days. It's an open secret that my former direct supervisor #RC ("Remotely Controlled") also allegedly unsuccessfully applied for the position before his arrival, causing quite a bit of conflict and backbiting between them, which also amused other colleagues in the department.



In 2013 and 2014, as part of the ongoing reorganisation changes in Radio ГA / ГA, a discussion was opened on the topic of replacing the existing and tested information system, which everyone was obliged to call "legacy", with an incompatible system on the Microsoft platform, more precisely named O365, which #RC ( "Remotely Controlled"), without any professional arguments, advocated. He argued only that it was the wish of "top management" and that it would bring huge financial savings. He refused a substantive discussion on this topic, just as he did not come up with any strategic plans "how to implement it all" in the current conditions. His idea was that it would be done for a minimum of money and that it would happen somehow "by itself" and figuratively "by next week" thanks to me. Without training, only with crossed fingers and with faith and desire - "you can do it, you can do it!"


I pointed out to him the security risks associated with this process and that it is not a very good idea to expose our data, considering the area of our business, to the Internet, moreover using the cheapest E1 license models (for charity and small and medium-sized businesses) .


His only criterion was again the price, which he bragged about every time, how he figuratively painted it to the entire IT world with this hussar piece of his.

So I started performing, in addition to my regular function and for which I had signed a 15-year-old employment contract, in parallel and without an official designation, the function of global administrator of O365.


I never signed an employment contract for this position, and I ended up doing it for 5 years, until my resignation, without specified job duties, responsibilities and without proper training signed by me .


So how was it harvested?


A serious security problem at Radio ГA / ГA was specified that the O365 system was used there in the "core security scheme" and my supervisor, although he knew about these vulnerabilities in the system, still did not act. Although he boasted on the LinkedIN portal at the time about all possible security certificates and that he was the right person in the right place .


The criminal charges against him, which swiftly followed my discovery of the "stalking" through my computer, probably caused his final "bye bye" to the country from which he left more than 25 years ago. By the way, he continues to publish these alleged certificates of his on the website of his current breadwinner.


Now I don't want to use a lot of complicated "IT" expressions, describing the deplorable state of our environment at the time, and thereby additionally warm up my "kulajdička soup". I will rather focus on the essence of things that had an impact on the earliness and quality of the harvest at that time.

One of the things that the charity license model O365 wasn't prepared for the other day was its toothless anti-phishing protection. All of you who have sent an email at least once in your life know this term. Isn't it? Don't despair. I also couldn't believe my ears the other day, when during one of the hearings of our already 5-year court marathon, judge #JH ("Dr. Hustá") reprimanded us flamingly "Urválek speech" with a conceptual expression like "bushing" or "pushing".


It is not above being judicially competent and independent, I wanted to shout to the world at that time.


This issue was pretty much covered in one of my first posts here .


As is well known, "man in the middle" may not only be a ticklish sexual idea.

Like many times when I informed my superior or when I needed something from him for my work, he was not interested in solving problems this time either. The only exceptions were those things that the management could learn about, or it was an item from the #KF wish collection (“Kristína Fšetko”).


Since on October 7, 2019, from his point of view, a banal incident occurred, which, according to him, I have handled dozens of in the past, and since it occurred while testing other software from Barracuda Networks, i.e. outside of production, he did not consider necessary to waste his precious time with me on this matter and thus interrupt the viewing of one of the serial parts on NETFLIX. Subsequently, after a few weeks, it became clear that as a result of the aforementioned security incident, the account of the global administrator was stolen and data was extracted from the mailboxes of several dozen employees. And what was the worst - including those from the management!


However, I was no longer admitted to the conclusions and details of the "alleged" investigation report, nor was I allowed to comment later in court on the untruths stated in it. Instead, in the spirit of their highest moral traditions, the existence of which they widely feed the eyes and ears of their Internet followers and donors, they covered it up with my statement - for deterrence .


Of course, the traditional all-embracing good was not missing here, with the scope from I don't see to I don't see and the signature "peace to the world"

Such as the local tradition.


When these misconducts, for which he had direct managerial responsibility #RC ("Remotely Controlled"), appeared in the resulting Microsoft investigation report dated 12/13/2019, I was not allowed to access it.


Here, too, the legal department headed by #LA ("Dr. Leklá Andělka"), who used American taxpayers' money, approached their contracted law firm #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko"), so that they would then jointly "hand in hand" throw all his responsibility to me. And in the end, when I started to protest, together with their long-time experienced judge of the local court of first instance, #JH ("Dr. Hustá"), they arranged to talk me out of my senile imprudence.


And so, were it not for the last 5 years of litigation, where I am trying to invalidate this termination and reach a court settlement with severance according to merit and as is customary in this region, I would never have learned about certain facts of this security incident.


So how was it stocked?


This stage of harvesting began very awkwardly in mid-December 2019.

 

After the warm friendly relations between me and #RC ("Remotely Controlled") were suddenly broken at our joint workplace , he personally informed me on 16.12.2019 that HR Manager #MS ("Mr. Sushi "), which will tell me what will happen to me next.


They say I should only go to work, read my mail at most and wait. Still just waiting.

When still nothing happened, on the afternoon of 17/12/2019 I personally visited #MS ("Mr. Sushi") and asked him if #RC ("Remotely Controlled") had been informed and if I should really just wait.


I told him that I don't think it's very economical for this company, which according to my superior still doesn't have money for licenses or training, for an IT specialist to just sit at the computer for the next day, while pending requests are piling up, other security issues are piling up incidents , the mail system does not work properly, reports and requests for the removal of errors are still delivered to my mail and thanks to the blocking set by #RC ("Remotely Controlled") I can't do anything with them anyway !


When I told him, he closed his office door carefully behind me and then started yelling at me.

#MS ("Mr. Sushi")

I have to kick you out for the loss of trust!

Can you please tell me how you came to this conclusion and what leads you to it? And above all, value your words!

#MS ("Mr. Sushi")

I don't know! (he added more amicably)

It makes me quite uneasy when someone like you and with the powers you have wants to fire me, moreover, for a loss of trust and doesn't even know the reason?!

#MS ("Mr. Sushi")

Because you clicked! (cut off)

Sir, I am paid to click here!

#MS ("Mr. Sushi")

But you clicked wrong!

I understood that there was no point in discussing the details of "my clicking" with him, so we parted ways.


They say I have to wait for their next decision.

The decision came late in the afternoon, when he and #RC ("Remotely Controlled") tried to hand me the well-known document with "obstacles on the employer's side" with the words - sign it or...!


I remembered a similar story from 2014 and one of our previous posts here – “How do we do it? According to the template!'


There was a stage of covering the grains with several handfuls of chaff, a little dust and some dirt were added. Then everything was just properly mixed and ordered - DON'T SNEEZE!


So how was the grain chaffed?


Like Cinderella - after all "by hand" and with the help of helper doves.


The affidavit of #RC ("Remotely Controlled"), which at the time of its alleged writing on 4/6/2020, when he was no longer an employee of Radio ГA / ГA, played a pivotal role in the court's decision to dismiss both of my lawsuits . In this pamphlet he described the whole hacking incident and commented on his trouble with my computer, not forgetting to throw everything back at me. In his second part, which was apparently created "ex post" and according to what has been proven here - "you help us and we will help you" - he tried to develop his criminal prosecution organised by me. In this statement of his he states in one of his parts that


" I used Mr. XY's computer on various occasions and only in the period from January 31, 2019 to February 14, 2020... ".


If this statement of his is true, which he confirms with the sentence at the end


" By signing this declaration, I confirm and confirm that the above statement is true ",


he actually admits that he has been using this computer of mine for more than a year .


I would like to state here that the incident that occurred on 7/10/2019 took place during this period and it is possible that his activities from 31/1/2019 to 7/10/2019, or from 7/10/2019 to 14/02/2020, could have had an impact on its progress, or on its investigation.


According to an extract from activity records in the O365 administrator console, #RC ("Remotely Controlled") searched my mailbox several times with his administrator account and tried to find incriminating information for me. That is, he was the only one in the company who had a special security license "Azure AD Premium P1", which allowed him to make interventions with the highest level of security in the "tenant" of Radio ГA / ГA.


About this oath and the existence of several versions of it, it was written in detail in the article "An American oath of honor" .


It is necessary to emphasise on this occasion that this sworn statement of his had a key influence on the reasons for my termination of employment pursuant to §52, letter G.


According to all judgments, based on which I have so far all lawsuits with Radio ГA / ГA lost, the court emphasises the importance of this statement of his as pivotal in describing the events as they allegedly occurred.

In addition, the second similar statement of the "IT security officer" #JS ("Joints Smoker"), is presented only in electronic form in MS Word format, and even without a signature.


For the court panel "16 C", which traditionally judges the cases of all employees of Radio ГA / ГA, this was again sufficient and understandable.


When looking at the files at the Criminal Department of the Police of the Czech Republic, we found that the legal representation of Radio ГA / ГA , represented by the same lawyer, provided the police investigator with an altered text of the Czech translation of the officially verified sworn statement #RC ("Remotely Controlled"), in which they changed the text so that it shows that he only accessed my computer from January 31, 2020 to February 14, 2020, i.e. only for 2 weeks .


The effort was to impress upon the investigator that he had only been here for a few days after I exposed his attempt to steal my computer identity. Most likely, the legal department did not count on the fact that I would be personally interested in the progress of the investigation of the security incident reported by me directly to the Police of the Czech Republic and that I would appear in person to inspect the criminal files .


According to the answer of the employee of the translation company, the English original was translated into Czech, and therefore also for the needs of the court and the criminal court, with the correct dates in both copies.

Although #RC ("Remotely Controlled"), as a long-time IT worker, with the highest security privileges, allowing him to remotely connect to any company computer directly from his office at any time , decided to get into the computer of mine right in my former office.


On Friday 1/31/2020, in the late afternoon, he ordered the domain administrator to reset the password on my computer and tell him it. On Sunday, February 2, 2020, in the morning , when no one was in the office, he logged into my former computer using the password he had obtained and started reading my private correspondence both in the company O365 and in private mail with my identity. I discovered this by accident during my unexpected visit to the office on 2/17/2020.


After his accusation and the filing of a criminal complaint, the legal department of Radio ГА / ГА began to traditionally downplay this entire crime, and what's more, began to excuse him.


According to known notes.


Although he allegedly held CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), CISA (Certfied Information Systems Auditor) and CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) certifications and held ISO 20000 certification, which he published extensively publicly on his LinkedIn profile, the court believed that , that he did not know how to install standard administration software on his computer , in addition, according to fully and detailed documentation to which he had access as my superior.


On the contrary, after I published this information to the police of the Czech Republic, he deleted all confirmations of certifications from the LinkedIN portal from his profile. Today, he is posting them again on his current employer's website, so it is quite likely that he is the real owner of these certificates.


But who knows? Maybe it was only issued by his keyboard, enhanced by "Photoshop" and published by his home printer.

During the somewhat tepid police investigation into illegal #RC ("Remotely Controlled") activities, I kept trying to assist them in obtaining evidence from IT113's physical computer disk.


According to the investigative report of the criminal police, it was established that he actually accessed my private mail in the domain " seznam.cz ", but unfortunately it was not established whether it was successful or not .


According to all investigative reports I later came across, the computer was first stored in an IT warehouse for police use, while another report states that #JS ("Joints Smoker") and his IT crew had been going crazy on it before.


Even though he was scolded several times by all those involved, he finally arrived with the reputation of an unkissed virgin in the hands of the criminal investigators of the Police of the Czech Republic, so that in the end they did not find anything serious.

I had a hunch from the beginning that it was the rarest DELL computer called IT113 in Central Europe at the time.


By searching, I discovered that Radio ГA / ГA filed a criminal complaint against an unknown perpetrator at the District Police Department of Prague 10 Strašnice after the incident, where his representatives appeared to give an explanation. In their statement, they state the date of the incident as 25/11/2019 , i.e. one day before I personally officially reported it and blocked the hacker account. This statement of explanation was delivered to the inquest in person by #JS ("Joints Smoker") and it is strange that it did not appear in the court files and did not appear here at our request .


In the end, our request was simply rejected by the court in view of speed and economy.


In this submission, and also in the reasons for my statement below, it is stated that I allegedly opened a link (here is finally the mythical click in the submission of #MS ("Mr.Sushi")) to the website " Office365account.azurewebsites.net " and which allegedly caused the launch of a cyber attack.




When I found out that the account was most likely hacked, I asked the network department to block this suspicious link for all of Radio ГA / ГA, thus preventing a similar attack from this address on any other employee of the company. With a little taste, this report #IM-9769 of mine can still be found in the central report database today.



From the first days of the investigation of this security incident, it was clear that this Internet domain is registered by the Microsoft company , that is, that it is a legal domain and according to the international database of domain owners " who.is " it was registered on 24.1.2012 by the company "MarkMonitor, Inc." , which is dedicated to the security of Internet domains and is part of the leader in web services technologies of the company "Newfold Digital" ( https://who.is/whois/azurewebsites.net ).


It is still available for purchase by a "broker" for approx. 110 Euros plus 20% commission.


It is therefore logical to assume that I considered the mentioned domain to be verified and safe at the time of clicking.

It is strange that this information , which was known from the first day of the investigation to #RC ("Remotely Controlled"), to another colleague of mine in the administrator role too, and was subsequently confirmed by the forensic investigators of Microsoft , does not appear in this explanation given to the police, nor in the justification of my statement, nor in the internal investigation report of Radio ГA / ГA, if one was ever created for this purpose.


On the contrary, the fact that this attack occurred immediately after the double leak of credentials from a certain "sloppy patronising" local American journalist , which occurred only 28 minutes before the phishing attack, must not be discussed , even during court proceedings .


During the investigation, specialists from Microsoft confirmed to me that the whole incident was the result of the lack of compliance with the necessary security standards in the O365 system , starting from the use of a cheap licensing model, through the use of only "basic" authentication (so that managers can use quick and simple login), to the inconsistent requirement multi-factor authentication and unsupported communication protocols (again with exceptions for "equal" between "equal" users).


On 11/12/2019, I tried to definitively remove these security holes (after consultation and under the cover of the present specialists from Microsoft), which was immediately banned by #RC ("Remotely Controlled").


In fact, I don't understand it to this day, and the only explanation for me is that he was determined to throw it all on me for good from that day forward.


However, neither my nor anyone else's guilt is mentioned by name in this summary document.

As Microsoft's investigative report stated, the malicious software "stealth.worm.exe" was installed in the above domain , which obtained login data and especially verification codes for two-factor authentication by the "man in the middle" method between July and November 2019. .


As it was a Microsoft domain where this application was hosted from 2/10/2019, this application was finally neutralized by their specialists during their investigations in Prague from 9/12/2019 to 13/12/2019, as they themselves state in their report.


Unfortunately, in the course of a later investigation, it was found that a "man-in-the-middle" attack was also used against my account at this time, when the MFA "token" was stolen during communication with the O365 administration interface and later misused and to bypass security.


By using the lowest license model O365 E1 and I didn't have any other computer with "Conditional Access" security enabled, which I asked my supervisor #RC ("Remotely Controlled") under request number SQN: 191217 to no avail and for which there is still an unconfirmed request for them (this is access from precisely defined IP addresses), there may not have been a successful breach of security .


 

According to the report, this "US attack" took place from Estonian IP addresses. However, I admit that it could also have been masking of IP addresses by the attacker.


But I can't rule out the fact that Čuk and Gek, while splashing in the waves of the Estonian Baltic Sea, also engaged in other non-resting pleasures, i.e. "hacking" Radio ГA / ГA .

The uncovering of the grain continued in other "non-IT guy" fields, where all misconduct and violations of the law should also have remained undiscovered. The following paragraph in particular should be confirmation for many of you that "stalking" behaviour by your supervisors in your workplace is not legal, but rather illegal .


After all, as will be mentioned below, the "Aspenians" really had no problem with complying with laws and regulations.


According to the results of the investigation of the "Labor Inspectorate" , to which I contacted with a request for an inspection, this inspection body states in its conclusions that Radio ГА / ГА violated my privacy as an employee without a serious reason, based on the special nature of the activity , when it allowed me to a supervisor accessed my work computer and worked under my administrator account.


The control body also stated that the controlled person did not fulfill the obligation to inform me directly about the interference with my personal rights , thereby failing to fulfill the obligation according to § 316, paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Labor Code.


At the same time, it was established that by not discussing my resignation with the trade union, Radio ГA / ГA committed a violation of §61, paragraph 1 of the Labor Code . For more information, see the article "Brotherhood of Big Brother" .


On February 9, 2021, I received a statement from Radio ГA / ГA on my request to his work in the period from 1/12/2004 to 31/3/2020. Job duties and completed training are summarized here.


According to the list of job duties received, there are no O365 global administrator duties or any special O365 training .

On the same day, February 9, 2021, I received, again at my own request, a "Confirmation for the needs of the labor office" about the amount of the average monthly salary for the period of employment at Radio ГA / ГA.


In the part concerning the reason for the termination of the employment relationship, the official reason for my termination was not indicated , i.e. that "as an employee, I would have violated the obligation arising from the legal regulations relating to the work performed by him in a particularly rude manner (§ 55) " and no other was specified here either reason. At the same time, it is important to state that the instructions for this confirmation included a warning that the provision of data that would not correspond to the facts and as a result of which the employment office would provide funds illegally or in a higher amount, can be assessed as damage caused to the Czech Republic with legal consequences for the processor confirmation, i.e. for Radio ГA / ГA .



On 10.1.2021 I requested Radio ГA / ГA on the deletion of personal data for reasons of revocation of consent to the processing of my personal data.


In his reply dated 24/03/2021 , I was told and confirmed that as the administrator of personal data he did so after my termination of the employment relationship and, in fact, that he does not understand why I am asking such an obvious thing. However, by asking the administrator of the PostSignum certificates, which is the Czech Post, I found out that Radio ГA / ГA accessed this system several times from 6/4/2020 to 29/1/2021 with my former identity in the highest role "authorized person" and communicated using her with state administration bodies .


Upon my discovery, I had the administrator of the PostSignum system immediately block this former account of mine, informed the "Office for the Protection of Personal Data" on 11/17/2021 and filed another criminal complaint against the unknown offender.

The legal department of Radio ГA / ГA, as the guarantor of compliance with the rules in the handling of personal data, in its explanation submitted to the "Office for the Protection of Personal Data", as well as to the District Department of the Economic Criminal Police in Prague 10, once again trivialized the whole incident and from breach of its obligations she indirectly blamed me again .


Again, like a true "aspenáci", they only received an agreement from the administrative authorities and a promise that they won't do it again...


Although I have confirmation that I passed the documentation on to colleagues, I have been accused of not doing so. They did not accept at all that to this day I have not signed the exit sheet, all the access cards to the backup data center have not been taken from me and that the process of ending the working relationship between me and Radio ГА / ГA was , to put it mildly, non-standard .


In conclusion, one beautiful example of professional competence and thus the impartiality of the court in one of my cases, when Judge #JH (“Dr. Hustá”) included the following sentence in her court decision:


"... the plaintiff mainly finds discrimination in the different approach of competitive struggle and lobbying between Barracuda Networks and Microsoft ".


In fact, the first time I read this wisdom of hers, I just rolled my eyes and, using the words from the legendary movie "Sun, Hay, ..." shouted, "God, do you see that?!"

In order to get some argumentative ammunition for my defense of the procedures that I am at the barricade in defense of Radio ГA / ГA that day 7/10/2019 used, I approached the Barracuda Networks company in August 2021 with my request to at least certify in writing that I did all the activities according to the documentation and according to the procedures approved by them.


"In connection with the upcoming court proceedings, together with the lawyer, we are trying to put together some expert opinions in addition to other evidence. Since it seems that the culmination of my entire case could also be seen as a competitive battle between Microsoft (pursued wholeheartedly by my boss and USAGM) and Barracuda Networks (pursued by me and the head of IT security and his supervisor), I would greatly appreciate some expert opinion from you that in identifying and eliminating a phishing attack against them and in dealing with its consequences, I followed the described procedure correctly and according to the procedures recommended by Barracuda. After all, I didn't have any other option, since this tool for these activities requires a precise procedure through the "wizard", which I finally went through and in good faith considered it to be the maximum.

 

Do you think you could look at the attached document and at least write that I acted correctly in the given situation, or if more could have been done? The elderly judge is not an IT specialist, she does not understand many things, and the opposing party is counting on that..."


The next day I received a "politically correct" reply, in which the sender offered me only a "toothless" confirmation that I was their long-time and experienced customer, and with which everyone was always satisfied.



As if I didn't have enough praise, awards and rewards for those 15 years?

Thanking them "for the gifts", I finally declined their kind-hearted offer, reeking of AI for miles. I believe he wouldn't help me clear my name anyway.


So how has the grain been handled (so far)?


For the fifth year, the grain has been sieved, mixed and genetically improved. And so it gets smaller and smaller, smellier and, thanks to the passing of time, more mouldy. That it would be an interest?


Only the chaff remains immortal.

 

It is said that when a person grinds grain, he has bread, when he plants it, he reaps a harvest, as the Bible says.


Bread hasn't been made yet, but quality grain for flour is not available, it is said that there is chaff in it, even some dirt - it is a well-known fact, but with Cinderella and her pigeons - there is no spleen there yet...


How many grains of truth will THEIR gift of God contain in the end?



  • Writer: RFERL Watch
    RFERL Watch
  • May 5, 2024
  • 14 min read

"The management of the company holds fast to its functions mainly thanks to close mutual connections and thanks to the dictates of absurd internal regulations, the daily observance of which is one of the basic duties of subordinate employees. Censorship runs at full speed, the opportunity to have one's own opinion is limited, unsympathetic statements are usually punished by dismissal. Unreserved obedience is duly rewarded, and those who prove themselves in this process are entrusted by the company's internal system with overseeing the observance of the established order."


Welcome to an Orwellian fictional society ruled by his majesty "Big Brother".



So much for the introduction to today's post, which will describe the events at Radio ГA / ГA that happened more than four years ago.

 

It was February 2020 and the hitherto unknown droplet virus, named by the "anointed heads" worldwide as Covid-19, was beginning to choose its first human victims in societies. There are still scientific disputes about its origin and exact consequences, and their spreaders are, as is customary today, appropriately labeled and defamed.


In contrast to these tragic events, which were then beginning to fill the pages of the local and foreign media, four months earlier, and in complete silence, a group of "bad guys" appeared in the internal computer network of Radio ГА / ГА. Their origin and goals were clear to everyone in this company from the beginning of the investigation - it was a sloppy company from overseas after all!

 

In both of these cases, established political dances were used to eradicate evil.

 

While in the case of the first "case" this political trickle lasted and continues with varying intensity, cast and rhythm until now, in the second political part the "odzemok" danced basically according to the color of the passports. The dark blue world, always presenting the only correct styles of music and ready to feed them daily to the ears of musical illiterates, it was contrasted with a bunch of capable useful idiots, proudly advocating shades of dark red shorts, ready to greedily help them harden up at any hint of musical cacophony music.


Clash or symbiosis of worlds?

I will describe in events how they happened the other day.

 

Firing according to the §52 of the Labor Code without discussion with the trade union gave me, in my naivety at the time, quite a decent hope that Radio ГA / ГA would not want to pay a hefty fine of up to 2 million crowns based on the findings of the "Labor Inspectorate" and would rather come to an agreement with me according to the well-known "what we are - we are". My parent trade union also gave me some hope, which boasted on its public website about its membership in the "Trade Union of State Bodies and Organizations", in the "Czecho-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions" and the unquestionably promised legal consultation of the local trade union legal elites.


I also appreciated the fact that during negotiations with the local "top" managemnt, consisting of #LA ("Dr. Leklá Andělka"), #MS ("Mr. Sushi") and #JS ("Joints Smoker) in February 2020, it fully built . And all this just a few days after I discovered on 17/02/2020 the attempt of my supervisor #RC ("Remotely Controlled") to play "Big Brother" role against me.



You can find more about this case here .



In the meantime, a lot of water has been lost in the local river, and the lukewarm police investigation into the criminal charges against my supervisor for attacking my work computer and stealing my identity, as well as my ex-employer's impersonation of both of my lawsuits, led me to believe at the time that it was in time to involve another institution - this time "State Office of Labor Inspection" in the battle against crystal clear practices in Radio ГA / ГA.

 

Who else should have the patent to judge whether there is something impure floating in that pure wine of theirs?

Before that, however, we tried to contact Radio ГA / ГA again with its trade union. We assumed that the trade union should be the active component that turns to the labor inspectorate first. After all, it is theb one and only who ensures compliance with the "Labor Code" at the workplace and prioritizes the interests of her members and employees against the will of employers. We also assumed that we would subsequently join their initiative. And this regardless of the fact that in June 2021 I had not been a member of them for more than a year.





The events that followed only confirmed my years-old belief that the "Association of Gardeners in Horní Dolní" has more power than any trade union even in the largest corporation.


At one of the committee's meetings, a certain member of the committee suggested to the union president that she should not seek happiness for the sake of others. That they will be there even after I'm fired and that it could happen that they end up like me. The truth of his words that Radio ГA / ГA has no problem "kicking out" a member of the trade union committee was soon demonstrated. And that, as it is known from trade union practice, it is really riding on a very thin ice!


Evil tongues claim that this "barter" with the highest in the local food chain caused the unblocking of negotiations on the frozen wages of Czech employees. Of course, in the spirit of the purest years of proven traditions "something for something". But I don't know about that because I didn't tell them about it. I also didn't witness the hastily convened "meeting session" between him and "his" trade union after the inspectorate unexpectedly slammed his "Hagiborian" door.


And so in the end we were left alone again.

 

I remember that endless UBER trip through Prague, when the driver, knowing only a few bare Czech sentences with a strong Russian accent, took us to the arranged meeting with "our" inspector in Veleslavín. The driver in a matching ADIDOS brand tracksuit stubbornly insisted on the route offered to him by his brand new "TAMTUNG" mobile phone in GOOGLE maps and stubbornly refused the shortcuts recommended by me, as a native living here for several decades. After several apologies to the inspector for our delay, which was not our fault, we finally met in a small meeting room at the entrance of the inspectorate.


We thus gained the first minus points in advance and again through no fault of our own.

 

In order for this meeting to take place at all, we first had to carefully document our evidence of my former employer's wrongdoing, and most importantly, file a motion in time.


I will not repeat from this link all the details that such a submission must contain. However, it is important to draw attention to an important fact, namely that "the ice begins to move" only after a certain period of time, which the inspector respectfully pointed out to us in advance. In the spirit of the well-known proverb "about slugs and cabbage", it is said that there are many similar submissions and only a few inspectors. Perhaps he was monitoring that we would change our mind in time, and so another snail devotes himself to another cabbage.


And so, almost a year passed, and we were informed via a data box message about the result of the inspection.

 

Here, however, it would be appropriate to spend a few words on that initiative and the events that preceded it. So I will focus only on the main points of my initiative and will also supplement them with excerpts from the labor inspectorate's response from the report on the results of the inspection.


1.


Signs of bullying and bossing by my former supervisor #RC ("Remotely Controlled"), consisting of assigning meaningless tasks, not managing me, hindering my professional growth, ignoring my recommendations, treating me unequally due to my age and later in tracking my activities on the internal network.




2.


The manner and form of delivery of the notice, when it was delivered during my long-term illness caused by increasing psychological pressure from #MS ("Mr. Sushi") to take it over, delivered to the apartment in an open form by an unknown person and under the pretext of a police visit.





3.


Probably the most serious violation is the administrative offense according to §61, paragraph 1 of the "Labor Code" for not discussing the dismissal with the trade union, for which the organization faces a fine of up to 2,000,000 CZK from 1 January 2015.





4.


Identity theft by my superiors #RC ("Remotely Controlled"), breaching privacy and security on my work computer, posing on the internal network and the internet with my identity.





5.


Performance of the O365 global administrator function in conflict with the original Lotus Domino/Notes administrator job description, without this new activity being specified in the job description in the new employment contract.





So I should be satisfied with a narrow 3:2 win, one would say.


I was not.


We kept this step in reserve until the last moment and did not expect that Radio ГA / ГA would let it go this far. Did those moral beacons really think that if their union didn't take the initiative, I wouldn't dare to do it myself? I knew from previous jobs that arguing with the "Labor Inspectorate" is something that no company looks forward to and tries to avoid this internal investigation of theirs until the last moment.


Probably their moral values and the reputation of the company that all those useful idiots represented in this dispute are as distant as parallels in their efforts.

The problem of Anglo-Saxon companies in our meadows and groves is, in my opinion, their management.


With a few exceptions, these are managerial waste from their mothers, who, thanks to various advantages ("housing", bonuses, tax breaks, managerial clauses, benefits from "passport color", relations with politicians, their ties to embassies, ... ) scheming with each other and protecting their well-deserved "dream job". Even if many of them, often after their managerial failure or as a result of "collaborative relations at the workplace", have to leave their precious chair with a tear in their eye, they usually justify that tear in their eye by their sadness for their family. It is therefore not surprising that at the first opportunity, after such a door kick, they return within a few months improved through the window. After all, as I mentioned this phenomenon in one of the previous posts "How to become persona non grata" .


But where is the main point of this post of mine?

Imagine that you have been working in such a fictitious company in the Czech Republic since you finished high school or university, and you have been building your place in the same company for more than 20 years. Let's give this company a name - let that company be Radio ГA / ГA, for example, and let it be the long-time striver - #RC ("Remotely Controlled").


He builds his position "from the ground up" - first as a member of IT support aka "motor mouse", then head of this department, and finally as IT director. Meanwhile, the local IT pond thickens, redistributes, and the all-powerful tadpole begins to be threatened by some omnipresent shark fry. The protection of senior colleagues of the same tribe is no longer enough, and suddenly it is indicated to him from the higher floors of the building that the brown colour of his nose is not dark enough. And that it is insufficiently expressed.


Here, too, he comes up with an idea on how to save paper costs in printers. Everything will be printed on both sides of the paper! How simple! But in a media company such as Radio ГА / ГА, where contributions to the camera are read live from such printed papers, this his idea did not meet with much understanding. Let's face it - it was more of a mess. Other ideas soon followed. How about compulsorily turning off "computers" in an effort to save a few cents on energy? Even this well-intentioned effort to save money ended up in a misunderstanding for the company that broadcasts 24/7. And there was another idea. Don't you think there are too many addresses in the address book? Let's reduce their number! At least by 30%! How brilliant! A million dollar idea and no one will notice, right? Other fruitful ideas, unfortunately with a similar result, without appreciation soon followed.


And so the revolutionary year 2014 arrives and new unknown faces appear in the local waters, from whom it is not known in advance what can be expected from them. With each new president comes new managers, advisers, from these advisers and managers other managers and advisers, other new superiors and their superiors, and his waters are becoming incredibly tight. New technologies are coming and the politics of the "new era" are spreading to the information technology area of his directorate. A long-standing village turns into a tough fight for survival, where every ally counts and where the biggest advantage is the advantage of owning information. His IT becomes a blessing to him.


Unfortunately, he had another new superior in the hierarchy and horizontally another new competitor #JS ("Joints Smoker"), whom his new superior "outranked" here. Damage. He had been thinking about the position of IT security director for a long time. That would be the right position for him, which would correspond to his qualities. He always dreamed about this newly created feature when he fell asleep. Who has security, has influence and insight - about everything, as is known!


Oh yeah, how could he failed, he thought…


But not all days are over, he comforted himself. It's already Friday!

The key is not to leave a computer trail , has now become his daily mantra.


Another principle was that important decisions are not sent by email . If it is really necessary, then give orders only verbally, in the door of your office, preferably without witnesses and right in the ear. Or hand them over in the form of a name or bare sentences on a piece of paper with instructions - shred after reading, or preferably eat. On the contrary, very important orders must be sent in a copy with several recipients. And such important e-mails are generally sent with a read receipt, and above all, all these receipts must be archived in special folders.


Emails, emails, emails…

Emails have become a strategic weapon! Don't you have an email? You have no proof! The unwritten rule of all fish here. And above all to desecrate and ridicule the competitor - preferably in something for which they are stretching him here. To begin with, we will start - for example, in IT security.


Computer security is a very strange discipline.

It requires strong and responsible personalities, elaborate internal rules, unreserved support from the company's management, and finally everyone's awareness. You will never build it with the help of "yesmen", with rules that are bypassed without consequences, where IT security leadership is full of "equals" and "equals", and where the awareness of the individual is a manifestation of his weakness and a reason for his ridicule.


I wrote about each of these violations in one of the previous posts.


Know about everything that happens on the internal network, who visits certain websites, where and for how long, how many and what "movies" they have on the shared drives, which application they most often run, and which emails are sent from whom to whom. This is all legitimate fraternity behavior. It's worse if this information is used for gain. It doesn't matter if it's about obtaining evidence for firing, for blackmail, or for influencing.


When, at the end of 2019, his career world, which had been built for many years, was collapsing and an in-depth analysis by forensic specialists from behind the big puddle named the wrongdoings (all) involved in the recently discovered hacker attack on the mailboxes of his superiors, he once again demonstrated his managerial responsibility in an exemplary manner. He found the only culprit, named him and, thanks to the possibilities given to him by the system, created a legend and, at the end, his singing "papapa" song.


Now, all those anus alpinistic feats at #KF ("Kristína Fšetko") have finally paid off for him, who in the end, in terms of organizational components, officially dedicated everything to him without unnecessary talk.


Then it was just painting "crystal clear".

For these needs, he had technical equipment, special types of licenses, functional status and most importantly – a strong stomach. So it started by reading the contents of the suspicious mailbox of certain users. And again - even though he had the appropriate access rights to do so, he let others sniff. He always had his people to do the dirty work for him.


He was simply the darling of the team.


Over time, and with this method of investigation, his "fun club" of devotees began to dwindle. Some took the risk and told him they didn't feel up to it. Others, with the excuse of undergoing a sudden lobotomy, have forgotten everything and that they can no longer do it. The very last ones suddenly "sick". And so the time came when it was necessary to fight "solo" in order to protect one's reputation. Really solo? Not.


Whereas until now his subordinates did the dirty work because they had to, now the "useful idiots" got involved because they wanted to.

#KF ("Kristína Fšetko") unusually signed the necessary notice at the end of January 2020 and gave the whole event the right official stamp. #MS (“Mr. Sushi”) has secured a building ban and employer obstruction since December 2019. That's just so that someone doesn't surprise them "at work". #LA ("Dr. Leklá Andělka") activated the law office of #MV ("Mgr. Prasátko") in case the whole thing bursts, or if someone suddenly rebelled. And Mr. Clean #RC ("Remotely Controlled") had access to IT systems blocked at the end of 2019. This time for the peace of his work.


And so, with the new year 2020, lustrations and the search for additional evidence began. Time is running inexorably and there are only three weeks left until the dismissal according to the required section of the Labor Code. This is to screw the right paragraph on the person in question, after which everyone in previous cases ran away with a squeal.


It starts running powershell scripts over the clipboards and mines and extracts. So far, evidence is being sought only in the company mail, which foolishly evaluates that it is legal and that this can still be happen .


He grabs everything. He searches and searches, but cannot find a needle in a haystack.

In mid-February 2020, the situation gets complicated. Lawsuits are being threatened and there is still no further evidence. Moreover, it is implied by the accuser that he has evidence against him! Damn! He realizes that he may have underestimated his opponent. Is it starting to prepare for the fact that the opposing party could have available details from the investigation from the time when they were still friends in order to repair the damage? That would be really annoying. Such maneuvers and still no result!


He thought to himself - if he wants to go to trial, he probably won't communicate with the lawyer from the company email, especially since he blocked his access to it, right? Besides, he couldn't find anything in his mail anyway. The only option left is to look into his private mail on one of the public mail servers. What is this address? Clear! We all communicated with him during the course of the investigation and he has it carefully stored in his sent mail folder. In a safe place of course. In his archive.


And so on January 30, 2020, by virtue of his position , he orders one of the last willing to give him access to the plaintiff's company computer . He has a name, now he knows the password, and thus he has his identity now.


The computer track is over. Now who can prove to him that the prosecutor himself was not on that computer? Now he also has a private mail at his disposal, and since the plaintiff does not know this, it mainly makes his legal representation and excited management happy. All they know everything in advance now.


Finally a hero with the right shade of brown definitely!

The advantage of "being informed in advance" collapsed like a house of cards on 2/17/2020. It took during one unplanned visit to the Radio ГА / ГA office and logging into the company computer after resetting the password. This was followed by the filing of a criminal complaint against him, the interruption of negotiations on an out-of-court settlement in both filed lawsuits, and ended with him fleeing with his entire family home to US. Simply somewhere where, as the investigator noted, no one here has yet been able to succeed in extradition.


So what is the takeaway from this post?

 

It makes me think of the jug and going to fetch water. Definitely very apt in this story!


In any case, point 4 of the conclusion of the report of the "Labor Inspectorate" from the protocol of the investigation of my submission and listed here a few pages above, should be a lesson. It is well known that the employer can do whatever he wants with the company computer and you are only its users. I was surprised that we encountered this opinion even when dealing with police investigators when filing my criminal complaint on #RC ("Remotely Controlled").


The world just wants to be deceived.

From my subsequent experience after my "exit" from Radio ГA / ГA, I can personally and with full seriousness and joy confirm that not all companies are broken in this way.


Fortunately, there are also companies where they will not allow themselves to abuse your personal rights without a serious reason, and especially not without your consent.



As one of the former members of the "Big Brother fraternity", I will believe that there are a majority of such companies. And trust me - I know what I'm talking about.










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