This IT tech gets word that a particular employee at a remote office is to be terminated the next day due to poor productivity, according to a pilot fish in the know.

“Equipment was gathered up during the termination and shipped back to the tech a week later for proper processing,” says fish. “As the tech unboxed the notebook and opened it up, he saw a piece of masking tape over the built-in webcam on the top half of the LCD bezel.

“Baffled as to why it was there, he removed the tape to discover something surprising: The user had painted over the webcam with thick white paint. No amount of scraping or cleaning would remove it. The webcam was ruined and would require an out-of-warranty replacement, a cost the company would have to incur.

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