Dirty Laundry

If you have the cojones to challenge someone in a court of law, make sure that you don't mind other people taking a gander at your dirty underwear and smelly holey socks.

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All of your secrets are going to leak out

and become

part of the public record.

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Someone challenged my estranged husband in court and tried to use a small tidbit of information from this blog to question his character. It was a perfect quote (even though the witness did not mention the blog at all - she said she heard it from him first hand...I don't think so.... I know where it came from). The stupid thing is that the proceedings were tape recorded and her perjury is now part of the public record!

With her testimony, part of it centering on someone she never met (my career aspirations, my marital status, my physical health, and my educational status), she revealed quite a bit of dysfunction within her organization and, well, even herself.

Goodness.....

Next time, she should call me as a witness rather than embarrass herself.

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Mind you, they won't call me as a witness. It is an issue that has nothing to do with me, yet they keep invoking my name. I complained, as a citizen, about a city practice. This led to the harassment of my estranged spouse (after a city employee in the legal department threatened to embarrass him if I took my complaint further. Funny, my complaint had nothing to do with him but a City HR procedure that made little sense).

It's not a pretty picture. Now, they've given me more to complain about. No one at the city is answering my letters (but members of the legal department will call and demand information about my estranged spouse or they'll visit the house unannounced and stuff paperwork in the mailbox). I feel harassed. The woman that came to my house yesterday told me that there was no one that I could file a formal complaint with about the behavior of her supervisor.

Really??? That's not true: there is always a bored reporter somewhere just dying for a scoop. Do they want me to take it that far?

Trust me, if I have to open my mouth

I'm going to make it count.

Really, it's best for these people if I need not speak. The more they harass people, the more documentation they give and the more information that one can mail to the regulatory agencies which oversee them and share with people who may be interested in the issues surrounding the original complaint.

Some people are not very smart.

On another note, I know that many female bloggers are silenced due to bullying (or sexual threats - I don't get too many of those, it usually stops when I ask the pervert what is missing in his life - is it love? happiness?, or the ability to achieve and maintain an erection?)

I just want to end by sharing that I will not stop blogging. There is no reason to be bullied into keeping quiet as I've got nothing to hide. To tell the truth, the people with this organization may need to learn to keep their mouths shut and behave in a less suspicious fashion if they want to keep their own secrets.

Maybe, though, I should thank them for reading my boring blog.

Thanks....

I guess...

Maybe, I'll get to read about them in the

papers some day!

Edit 4/19/09: the harassment continues... but I am too uncomfortable to share the experience I had with the city in the wee hours of the morning. Luckily, there are other avenues to take care of this issue.