Unraveling the Mystery: How a Dating Service is Sabotaging Our Law Firm

In an astonishing turn of events, my workplace, a law firm, has found itself embroiled in a bizarre and unsettling situation. For the past year, our office phones have been mysteriously hacked and rerouted to a dubious dating service. After much speculation, we suspect a fellow employee—let’s call her “the cancerous coworker”—is behind this disturbing prank. Despite our efforts and involvement from AT&T, the issue persists.

An Office in Disarray

As a dedicated employee, I find myself increasingly frustrated and on the verge of quitting. The environment has become so toxic that the higher-ups refuse to acknowledge that someone could compromise their job security for such antics. It is disheartening to work in a place where trust has eroded, and yet, I feel compelled to seek justice before making any final decisions about my future here.

Ironically, given that we operate as a law firm, if our suspicions prove correct, the coworker could face serious legal consequences. It’s almost poetic justice, considering how malicious her behavior has been. The workplace has devolved into a game of Clue—everyone is a suspect, and paranoia runs deep.

Behind the Technical Issues

Our office is equipped with outdated phones manufactured by Comdial, now owned by Zeracom, and our service provider is AT&T. With a total of six phone lines, we frequently reroute calls, but it has become a daily nuisance as individual lines redirect to the unwanted dating service multiple times throughout the day. Just today, this has happened four times. Each time, we must manually rectify the situation by dialing codes that reset the call forwarding.

An astonishing discovery was made: after consulting ten different professionals from AT&T and our phone system’s manufacturer, we were told that such a manipulation could only be performed from within the office. This revelation seems to fall on deaf ears, as our supervisors remain resistant to the notion that an employee is purposefully sabotaging our operations. Their suggestion to merely switch providers ignores the crucial issue at hand—the potential misconduct of a team member who also happens to handle sensitive financial tasks.

The Frustration Intensifies

It is essential to mention that our office lacks caller ID, and *69 has not proven reliable. While we believed AT&T had disabled the feature allowing call forwarding on our account, the problem continues unabated. Our priority has now shifted from