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VERY careful who you confide in! A listening ear can result in a running mouth! I once worked for a Government Agency, and the following happened to two coworkers.
One was having a real struggle in performing his job, due to lack of experience and knowledge. Couple that with internal office battles between the boss and the assistant supervisor, who thought he deserved the other's job, and was using the employees to discredit the boss. Why to continue to work there? We ALL needed our jobs!
The way my friend told it, he heard the other fellow, who was grossly overweight and had high blood pressure, ranting and raving about some relatively minor thing. Red face, sweating, the whole 9 yards! He was concerned about our coworker's welfare, and went to his area, sat down to talk with, to see if he couldn't calm him down.
During the conversation, he confided to the upset fellow that he had a one-time fantasy himself, something about "cleaning out" another government office.
Things seemed to calm down after that, but, apparently, the overweight one, probably to gain "points" had immediately gone to the Supervisor.
The fellow that had attempted to help his coworker ended up in a "conference" with the boss, the H.R. Director, and a psychologist.
They had done an "investigation", and discovered that my friend's computer password was "sniper"...definitely an indicator of
dangerous mindset , despite the fact he was a life-long shooter, and that is what he liked to do...long-range, precision rifle shooting! REALLY threatening, particularly to the bureaucratic mindset!
He was "evaluated" by the tame pshrink, Who, with an eye to future commissions, determined that he was DEPRESSED!
O.K., No surprise there, considering the conditions we were all working under. I think most of us were depressed to some degree.
After the dust had settled, he said that the H.R. Director told him "Don't worry, it's past!" But our Director...never!
The point to all this? Somewhere, there is a Psych report, showing the guy was, at one point in his life, said to be depressed.
Would this, at some future time, ban him from buying/owning firearms? Law enforcement cannot do something until the law is broken, but bureaucrats have no such compunction about eliminating Constitutional rights.
BTW; We have both since retired,
and significantly, our blood pressure numbers immediately dropped a fair amount.
Till the day he retired, my buddy left his password as "sniper"...a subtle "up yours" to the boss!
We still go shooting..hee hee!