Because they're such big risks, the firm only hires them after completing an extensive background check and interviewing process. For the firm's decision to be proven a bad one, as demonstrated by the employee's public drunkenness, would be adding insult to injury.

Therefore, while the penalties for all violators are severe, the penalties for young male paralegal violators, especially Frank, are absolutely barbaric. He'll never work at a mesothelioma law firm again, that's a given. But also, we're going to have fun making an example out of him. We'd like to start by sticking his nostrils together with crazy glue and throwing him into a swimming pool filled with double-edged razor blades. From there, we'll play it by ear, but it doesn't end well for him.

Oh, and if you convince the firm to hire someone who ends up violating this policy, you are just as guilty as they are. You're guilty, Jack. Guilty, guilty, guilty."

Of course, I couldn't be absolutely certain that I had remembered the exact policy word for word. My memory may have been biased by my recent conversation with Frank. But whatever the exact wording was, I'm sure it was going to pose a serious problem for him.

Who else knew about this? No one. That was a very good thing. We needed to keep the situation contained while I figured out how to handle it.

But wait! There was a record of our IM conversation. While he didn't actually confess over IM, his bizarre conduct during our conversation could be used as evidence against him.

As far as I knew, while the system administrators recorded every instant message, they didn't monitor them all. They just needed them to be available for auditing purposes, or if someone had a specific need to review certain ones. So maybe this wasn't a problem. But did I need to erase the records just to be safe? My God, listen to what I'm thinking! Tampering with evidence, of course I'm not going to do that.

I didn't like the idea of Frank potentially being in serious trouble. At the same time, it was always nice to face a legal challenge that was worthy of me.



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