Ray stared at the nearly thirty thousand records of emails that had been sent via the companies mail server since they had began monitoring last year. It would take Ray forever to go through each one of them and quite frankly he wasn't prepared to wait that long with out finding out.
The email could have been sent either this morning before Ray got into work or after he had left work on Friday afternoon. He started by refining the search to just include entries that had been written within the past four days. One hundred and fifty seven. 'Well that certainly narrowed things down,' Ray thought to himself. Now to find just the ones that had been to sent to him. Seventeen. 'This is coming along quite nicely,' Ray continued thinking as he started to go through each of the emails one by one.
'A-ha!' Ray had found the email he had been searching for. Logged under the user ID 'watcher' it had been sent to his computer at 5:48 pm Friday afternoon. Ray liked to get away from the office between three and four on Fridays. Not just so he could get away from the city before the traffic really began to crawl but also as he knew that employee productivity slacked off towards the end of the working week. It gave his employees the chance to begin to unwind without the risk of being caught by the boss bludging at work, not that he minded as they worked harder than he could really ask any other time.
Looking a little bit closer at the details, it showed that the email had been sent from the computer at extension 131. "Damn it," Ray swore to no-one in particular. He didn't recognise the extension off the top of his head. Ray didn’t have much cause to talk to anyone on the extensions other than the heads of each of his companies departments. He would have to go back to his office and ask his assistant Allison who had extension 131. On the positive side he had managed to eliminated one of his possible suspects so far. Mandy Bates, the head of the Human Resources department, was extension 104 so it couldn't possibly be her.
Greg wasn't around when Ray left the IT department. He paused on the way to his office in order to ask Allison about the mysterious extension, "Allison I was wondering if you could tell me who in the company as has extension 131?"
"I'm not sure right away sir. I'll check the roster and buzz you when I know," Allison said as she when to search for a folder within one of her desk draws.
In the time it took Ray to sit down at his desk and stop the screen saver on his computer by moving the mouse Allison had located the information for him and was relaying it through, "I've found extension 131. It's the phone line at reception."
Ray cock leapt at the thought of Kim and the images she had portrayed within her email. "Excellent thanks Allison. Could you please have Kim come and see me right away? Send her straight through and please, I don’t want to be bothered under any circumstances while I'm with her," Ray instructed his assistant.
"Not a problem Sir. I'll do that right away," she confirmed what he had asked. |