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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How many times has this happened to you? It's the
Jewel Show. You line up a first date with someone
that you think is super cool. They have all the
cool stuff that you like on a person, cool hair,
cool smile, the coolest elbows you've ever seen who, So,
in preparation for your first date, you do all the
normal things. You hire an excia agent, do a little
background check on them, fly to their hometown and interview
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their parents, show up at their job and ask to
view their last performance review. And then bam, all of
a sudden, they think you're coming on a little too strong,
and once again, someone you thought might be super cool
doesn't appreciate all the hard work you put into the
relationship and they cancel the first date. Well, one woman
is actually in a legal battle with her former employer
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and it's all because of a first date that she
went on. What why is she suing her old job
because of her dating life? You'll find out right after this.
Have you ever done a little innocent cyberstalking before a
first date? It's the Jewels Show. If you said yes,
then congrats, you're like everybody else. But one woman decided
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to go the extra mile and now she's making national
news because of it. Her name is Sarah Thompson. She's
a twenty nine year old fraud investigator for a major
insurance company, and she's suing her former employee for wrongful
termination after she was caught using corporate systems to dig
into a man that she was scheduled to have a
first date with. Oh According to internal records, Thompson access
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confidential insurance files, pulled his driving history, even opened up
a fake fraud case so she could legally justify pulling
surveillance footage nearby his home.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Oh okay, now you crossed the line, Sarah. Now I
don't agree with this.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
She filed a false injury claim to gain access to
his medical history.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
This is all before first date. She's just checking up
on the guy.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh, somebody must have burned Sarah in the past.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
She actually dispatched to company drone for an aerial sweep
of his backyard to quote, see if he owns a trampoline.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I don't know what means. Maybe he told her he had.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
A trampoline and she wanted to fact check it, you know,
make sure he's not lying for this first date.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I have no idea like trampoline jumpers are just like
red flags. I'm not adrenaline rush.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
She ran a credit check through three partner databases. Wow wow,
I guess that flagged at twelve dollars and forty seven
cents in overt library fine. She ordered a satellite imaging
request to monitor how often he mowed his lass.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
She used company GPS tracking software to trace every copy
shop that he had visited in the last ninety days.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
How long did it take her to do all of this? Like,
was this like over a week span? Does it say?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It doesn't say, but it was leading up to a
first date. She's doing a little innocent background check on
the guy a little bit. Get that info, girl.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's way too much.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Her employer claims the stunt wasn't just a violation of policy,
it also costs a company dearly. A spokesperson said the
misuse of resources in this case total one hundred and
forty eight thousand dollars. Yeah, I mean dispatching a drone
to do a sweep of the guy's house.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I mean she must be really good at her job. Yeah,
for real.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Thompson, the woman who's suing her company for wrongful termination
because she was just doing a little litocent, you know,
checking up on her date before she had a first
date with the guy. Said, one hundred and forty eight
thousand dollars is basically what people pay for a wedding
these days, and you can't put a price tag on love. Besides,
how else was I supposed to know if he's the
kind of guy who leaves his Christmas lights up in March? There?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
You should have done that by just looking on them
like yellow pages or white pages and did a drive by.
You did not have to send fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Said that she doesn't consider it stalking. She thought it
was a pre date audit is how she's saying it,
but still used company resources to do.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It efficient audit it You ask me she could use
that for her resume when she goes to get the
next job.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
She's insisting that she did nothing wrong, and now she's
suing the company, and to make matters worse, the first
date canceled on her.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Never had the date. You probably play on that trampoline
because he read the lawsuits. You know, what are these
droves doing about my house?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And how do you decide how much pre first date
cyber stalking to do you do none.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
That's not true, Nina.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You have to protect yourself and you go to the
are we dating the same guy to see if he
flags pretty quickly and just a little bit of a
brief overview.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
This lady thought she did just a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
A brief overview. Also like this is absolutely too far.
But if you're a little bit naive not to do
any at all. Are they really not married like they
say they're not?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Like relationship have weighed in and they said that you
should focus on sensible cyber stalking for a first date,
not dispatching drones to their house and getting a satellite
footage of every coffee shop that they've been doing in the.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Last ninety days. That's at they say.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's normal to be curious about your date, So start
with verifying what you already know about them. Confirm where
they work, LinkedIn by checking out their LinkedIn, look at
their Instagram, but don't run a background check or come
through their social media profiles to the point that you
get no sleep.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Not even that.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
But if you show up to the date and you
know more about him or her, whoever it is, than
they told you to talk about and I know you
also stalked them, but then you.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Know what they like what there's a certain amount of
stalking you can do. To act like you don't is
the quickest way to get yourself chopped into little pieces.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
There is a line.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
But if you know way too much, like more than
they've told you, like oh my gosh, like and your
dog Sparky back when you're five, he's like.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Excuse me, I was your mom's birthday party. Yeah, I
got her a gift. Okay, now we've crossed the line.