So I've recently had the pleasure of someone impersonating me.
Fun stuff!

A fellow Co-worker of mine decided to create a Gmail account in my name, pretend to be me, and email his ex girlfriend. The idiot left it up on his work computer and went home. The next day he called out because he fell down his steps at home and needed to go to the ER. So I had to go onto his computer to set up his Out Of Office and came across "my" email account.

I printed it out and confronted him about it the next day. I told him I wouldn't notify the Police (because this shit is probably illegal) but I hadn't decided yet if I was going to tell our boss. He begged me not to. He was crying and shaking and apologizing. Telling me about his situation with his ex-girlfriend and how its effecting their two daughters and stuff. I tried to be understanding but at the same time, what he did was really fucked up. Now, our boss doesn't really like the guy. He's late all the time, always away from his desk, he's been a no show before and last December, he was out more days than he was in working. So this guy is on really thin ice.

So today I wrote him a letter (so as not to have anyone overhear our conversation) and told him that if he really wanted to make things right and put it behind us, he should tell our boss what happened. I even offered to wait until the owner of the company came back from a conference on Monday and tell HIM instead since he likes the guy more and its the least likely option of him getting fired.

I gave him the letter at 9am and told him that if he refuses to tell them himself, then I will. He hasn't responded to me yet and it is now almost 2:30. I am giving him until 3 before I ask him if he ever plans on responding to me. I THINK I hear him typing a lot so I hope he's just writing me back.

Making this decision was a huge struggle for me. I don't really want the guy to lose his job because he's already on the brink of a break down with all the personal crap he has going on. But he impersonated ME and I need to think about ME and I need to at least have a supervisor know that it had happened. I'm going to be a little upset if he's taking all this time to get back to me because he's writing a letter trying to make me change my mind.

I mean, creating an email in a desperate attempt to get your Ex-Girlfriend to talk about you isn't a HUGE deal. Its not like it effected my bank accounts or got me in trouble...But if he was willing to do this, who knows what else he'd want to do with an email in someone elses name.

I'll keep you guys posted I guess...

You don't want him to lose his job. But do you want any sort of punishment at all? I'm confused a tiny bit about your actions.

Then again, I didn't have a dude pretend to be me...

So what happened?
» middaymoon on 2013-11-01 04:23:23

That's pretty crazy. You were smart to print evidence of the account's existence, though. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to delete the account and deny he did anything if you didn't have a printout.
» randomjunk on 2013-11-01 11:50:29

Something like this is part of what makes me timid towards management. You have to deal with other people's crap because you're in charge of managing their work-selves which is highly and directly affected by their not-at-work selves.

But you really should report him if he doesn't do anything. Especially now that you've said you will.
Tricky business. :S
» invisible on 2013-11-02 02:04:52

people in desperation would do anything desperately.

i hope u guys have settled this matter by ur next update.
» renaye on 2013-11-02 07:51:40

That sounds like something my Husband would do... x.x I hope your co-worker does the right thing.
» Midnight on 2013-11-02 08:47:58

That is illegal, impersonating someone. And you are nice for letting him choose who he should fess up to. Hopefully he makes the right decision on this.
» Nuttz on 2013-11-03 06:01:18

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