Asked for an extension and got fired!

[pmeswani]

It's called corroborating evidence. It backs up your story.

When people are having difficulty with employers, clients or agencies, I always recommend documentating any untoward events. It doesn't prove anything, but should it come to court, it makes your testimony appear considerably more reliable.

I hate to say this, but Event Logs are not corroborating evidence. It can be forged, faked, etc. Emails are harder to fake, especially if you retain the headers (i.e. forward an email as an attachment). However, one would have to be careful not to forward emails to an external email address or external storage that may contain Company Confidential / Restricted information.

[manclarky]

[QUOTE=wim121;1488444]Indeed, but providing it then enables the police to seize and verify your accounts. That was just one method I suggested.QUOTE]

So, I can't print out the event viewer then?
In that case, what are you printing out? I ask because I'd like to print it out, that's all

[wim121]

It's called corroborating evidence. It backs up your story.

When people are having difficulty with employers, clients or agencies, I always recommend documentating any untoward events. It doesn't prove anything, but should it come to court, it makes your testimony appear considerably more reliable.

Thank you, that is the point I was trying to make but might not have worded well.

Doesn't prove a thing. All it proves is that you went to the shop around the corner from client co and to the petrol station. It doesn't prove you were at the client site.

It may be good working practice to keep receipts for claiming expenses, but it isn't evidence in a court of law to prove you worked at a client site. To think otherwise is somewhat dillusional. However, if you have a court case that contradicts everything I have said, by all means publish it on this thread and I will be more than happy to read it.

I appreciate what you're saying and you may be right, if the police/cps want to nail you, it may not completely prove your innocence.

But wouldn't such supporting evidence, if you were a juror, place a seed of reasonable doubt in your mind as opposed to no explanation or supplementary evidence at all? Isn't it better to have something, rather than nothing at all to support ones account of what happened?

Even if the police would take your word for it that the information is genuine and factual, you are risking the client in sueing you for theft and breach of contract, especially if you own up to taking the information from the client. Just in case you don't know, any information, ranging from Event Logs from a computer to taking a whole database (or financial information) constitutes as theft. If you want to risk being sued and you think you will no doubtly win, go for it. You may also get done under the Computer Misues Act (I am not 100% on this, and I will need to double check if I can be arsed).

Actually you may be right, one would have to check their contract in such a situation. I wouldnt consider it as a removal of any confidential data as one wouldnt copy data from a server, just error logs from a workstation.

However as you said, it is a very thorny area!

Indeed, but providing it then enables the police to seize and verify your accounts. That was just one method I suggested.

So, I can't print out the event viewer then?
In that case, what are you printing out? I ask because I'd like to print it out, that's all

Just press ctrl+p in event viewer having highlighted the event. I would however print a screenshot.

There are programs you can run that will print out selected errors, so power on and off for instance, like this one, but as pmeswani pointed out, then installing or running unauthorised software could fall under computer misuse.






I think all of this falls under, you're damned if you do and damned if you dont do anything to protect yourself!

I think the only thing we can all agree on as a consensus, is the OP shouldnt take part in this behaviour and change contracts asap >>