Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' 312
netbuzz writes "A Cisco vice president, who happens to have been a CIA operations officer in the 1980s, believes that the employee who recently leaked an internal company memo to a blogger committed corporate treason and violated a 'family' trust. In an email sent to Cisco employees, the executive invites the anonymous leaker to come clean, concedes that's unlikely, and adds, 'so I will now make (finding) you my hobby. Ask around (and) you will find out that I like to work on my hobbies.' That email got leaked and published as well. The tempest was sparked by a series of stories in Network World examining a host of bidding and contract questions involving the California higher education system."
Jimmies Rustled (Score:5, Funny)
This is why VPs are overpaid children
dude thinks hes liam neeson? (Score:1, Funny)
cool
Really? (Score:5, Funny)
I'd think his hobby would be more along the lines of "eating cake among other things."
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Memos (Score:4, Funny)
Quinn then underscored his point in a second less widely-distributed memo, in which he added, "I'm all out of gum." Roddy Piper did not immediately return our calls for comment.
Fat Boy has James Bond Wet Dream (Score:5, Funny)
Film at 11.
A very particular set of skills... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dead giveaway (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like someone is going to be on double secret probation.
Re:Not impressed. (Score:5, Funny)
If he had been a good CIA ops, perhaps he'd still be working for the CIA.
Re:Dead giveaway (Score:5, Funny)
The email is a dead giveaway that they dont have shit on the person who leaked it. If I were the person that leaked it, I would be rejoicing right now.
But you would have guessed that that would be my reaction - you would have counted on it! So I can CLEARLY not choose the wine in front of me!
Really a company-wide email? (Score:5, Funny)
...or did he send a very slightly differently punctuated/spaced email to every employee, just to see which version ended up leaked? I'm pretty sure that's what Bruce Schneier would do.
Re:Dead giveaway (Score:5, Funny)
Little do you know that the Cisco VP has spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocaine powder.
fine, I admit it... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A very particular set of skills... (Score:4, Funny)
yeah, but this guy is a manager at Cisco.. the skills he acquirted over his very long career involve licking his superior's ass, stuffing his face with dinner and charging to expenses, stabbing his colleagues in the back and generally not having a clue about anything other than his own ambition.
so in this case its more "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. if you are looking for ransom,. I have lots and lots of money but I won't give any of it away. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a laughing stock for people like you. If you let my pride go now, that'll be the end of it. I will still look for you, I will still try to sack you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you - probably behind the photocopier which is where I found my set of postit notes - and I will tell you off, so there".
Re:Not impressed. (Score:4, Funny)
@EveryCiscoEmployee
-fess up, all of you, all at once
-act nervous and sweat, he's coming for you next
-speak out, because you're not safe anyway
-do tell all your hobbies, especially the cool ones.
Too much noise in the signal is even better for hiding. And it might actually get the VP fired.
Re:How about (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think that's the kind of "family" he means. More like the sleeps-with-the-fishes kind of "family".
Re:Jimmies Rustled (Score:0, Funny)
I clicked that link to networkworld and saw his pic. He not only looks like an overpaid child, but I can't look at him without wanting to go watch Better Off Dead.
Re:Dead giveaway (Score:5, Funny)
>Or just ask a bunch of random coworkers to forward it to you
No no, you're not thinking devious enough. Don't ask a random employee.
Ask the coworker you like the least. Leak that one.
Deny everything.
Taa daa.
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BMO
Re:Dead giveaway (Score:5, Funny)
Cisco has unwisely been fighting a land war in Asia [forbes.com] too.
That's LAN war....
Re:Dead giveaway (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Better hobbies. (Score:5, Funny)
Based on his picture eating is a big hobby for him, and he takes it very seriously.
Re:Jimmies Rustled (Score:5, Funny)
One is too many. Zero is the optimal number.
Managers in my company have this mastered. Nobody knows anything.