What's a company secret you can share, because you don't work there anymore?

Anything you think is private, probably isn’t. I worked minimum wage phone support for my school’s financial aid office and we had access to not just the financial aid status but also class enrollment, grades, and any other flags on the school files of every single student who enrolled at our school since they implemented the computer system sometime in the 80s. We needed this information so we could be like “sorry Karen it says here you lost your scholarship because you failed chemistry” but I’d be lying if I said people didn’t immediately stalk each other and any celebrity alumni we had.

Another time I worked for a tech startup during the era when every niche interest had their own social media. We had access to absolutely everyone’s account. Sometimes shit got buggy and the easiest way to fix it was to log in as you and see the problem how your account was seeing it. I could’ve logged in as you and said “I love kicking puppies” and I mean I would’ve gotten fired but it was still possible. More importantly I could also see your DMs. Thankfully I didn’t, because at that job there was much less flagrant corruption than a bunch of bored college students at the financial aid office, but the fact that we could have is creepy in its own right because who knows what other companies are in turn snooping about us.

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