Wrongful Accusation for a business:
Yesterday got me thinking since I almost forgot I have my name on a pet/house sitting site and it rotates over which makes it easy to forget
I realized when I was interviewing for TSA (Transportation Security Agency) last year in Maui, Ha. and one of their questions was "we googled your name and noticed that someone wrote a negative report about you, these are the things they said" well without knowing this to be true and I thought it was TSA's catch you under pressure tactic " I answered without hesitation "It must be a different Tammy Kosco" they seemed to like that answer because many people were sent home from Maui and I continued on with my interview.
Soon afterwards I googled my name out of curiosity and there it was "smack in my face moment" a very rude, negative comment. The part that fkin pissed me off the most was it was untrue. (don't mind my lingo plz). I immediately emailed the person and the website company and asked them to remove it. Which naturally the person who put it there ignored my request and the company told me we will not take it down but you can remove your profile if you are not happy. A profile I have updated since the year 2002 seriously. I go about my life since I rarely use that site anyway and almost forgot about it until this past Sunday when I got a frantic email and phone call asking me to come to Hermosa Beach, close to Los Angeles, Ca. I was going to agree since it was a paid gig and my "Accion Academy" just switched to online Zoom, since the C0VlD-19. We were to have a follow up later in the week by Wed.
The lady never returned my call or email by Wednesday like the agreement we spoke about this past Sunday. So it got me thinking A. She saw what the rude lady from Switzerland made up about me and instead of calling me back and asking me about it.
B. The C0VlD-19 took over and her and her husband thought it best instead of teaching diving and taking their chances that they may not be able to come back to the US. Still I pondered why they could not call me back as a simple courtesy.
I thought it over and realized it is not that difficult to pick up the phone and let another person know it takes one minute of their time. I do know I have been on that site 2.5 years after the negative remark 1 out of 10 really? I guess I did not worry much about it nor cancel my subscription for the simple fact I was too busy doing other things and It was hard to digest that people could base false assumptions on one person's negative review based on whom maybe not even real. This time though I have more time to ponder staying home more the C0VlD-19 scare and I guess I got pissed off all over again.
I decided I will remove my profile since I can't change what another person who wrote false information about me reminded me about when I was 19 years old and just joined active duty boot camp U.S. Navy. I was in my 3rd week of an 8 week stay in Orlando, Florida.
I kept thinking "does no one love me?" I am being facetious. But you get my point. I did not receive one piece of mail my whole time there ok, perhaps one letter. I thought seriously what the H.. I even asked my mom during one of our 10 minute conversations and she said "Tammy, your friends from school are writing to you". "Me and your dad are writing to you". I did not know what or whom to believe since I was receiving zip. Thank god I got those short phone calls to keep me going, especially from my father who had a good sense. "He would say "Just play the game you have 3 more weeks, the real Navy is not like boot camp" and thank god, he was right.
I went afterwards from Orlando, Florida to San Diego, Ca. to my "A" school meaning my 16 week Communications School then onwards to 8 weeks of intensive Satcom (Satellite Communication School) in Augusta, Ga. While I was in "A." school in San Diego, I would meet new friends and I would get this very strange response every time. The new person I would meet would say "Hey I know A Kosco'' (Yes, they call you by your last name) but it is not you! I thought how strange a comment that is. I soon became aware that there was a person with the very first and surname of myself and the strangest part of it all was that girl also was in my Boot Camp (one week ahead of me so a different division) and the chances of the same "A", school are beyond my wildest imagination. I for whatever reason chose not to meet her, when I saw her playing pool with my friends. I wanted to be the only Tammy Kosco for that matter, who gave her the right to have the same name and school as me? That was my 19 year old thinking at the time. I soon learned she was the one receiving all my mail from My family and My friends. The part was she was the Tammy Kosco that broke the rules and got caught. One thing one learns quickly in the military is to break the rules but don't get caught. Meaning we were not allowed to wear civilian clothes for the first 6 weeks of our "A" school. Yes, they really do give you a clothing chit (a piece of paper giving you authorization to wear jeans or shorts or t-shirt). Yes, you can get kicked out of the Navy for breaking these rules and getting caught. She did precisely that and got caught. The medical I soon learned (thank goodness I had given blood in High School once and remembered my blood type B (which they even got our blood types mixed up. In my medical records and on my dog tags (yes we had dog tags) I assume the A blood type was the other Tammy Kosco (did she have my blood type on her dog tag I pondered) that was the chain I wore every day on my very own neck for Christ's sake did this really happen are they that incompetent what else could they have screwed up our test scores? These are some of the questions I thought.
This brings me to present day my question to you is simple: "When this happens in a business setting a website perhaps or on your personal comments etc. a person writes a wrongful accusation like a slander". Knowing you are innocent how do you prevent this from ruining future business prospects (naturally it is a whole other ball game when someone tries to sue in the U.S. especially we know that is a high possibility and that is why we have legal documents in place to coa (cover our a$$) but I am glad today this question got me thinking when I have a successful business and this sort of thing happens what would you do?
Thanks for reading and your time. Stay safe!
Yesterday got me thinking since I almost forgot I have my name on a pet/house sitting site and it rotates over which makes it easy to forget
I realized when I was interviewing for TSA (Transportation Security Agency) last year in Maui, Ha. and one of their questions was "we googled your name and noticed that someone wrote a negative report about you, these are the things they said" well without knowing this to be true and I thought it was TSA's catch you under pressure tactic " I answered without hesitation "It must be a different Tammy Kosco" they seemed to like that answer because many people were sent home from Maui and I continued on with my interview.Soon afterwards I googled my name out of curiosity and there it was "smack in my face moment" a very rude, negative comment. The part that fkin pissed me off the most was it was untrue. (don't mind my lingo plz). I immediately emailed the person and the website company and asked them to remove it. Which naturally the person who put it there ignored my request and the company told me we will not take it down but you can remove your profile if you are not happy. A profile I have updated since the year 2002 seriously. I go about my life since I rarely use that site anyway and almost forgot about it until this past Sunday when I got a frantic email and phone call asking me to come to Hermosa Beach, close to Los Angeles, Ca. I was going to agree since it was a paid gig and my "Accion Academy" just switched to online Zoom, since the C0VlD-19. We were to have a follow up later in the week by Wed.
The lady never returned my call or email by Wednesday like the agreement we spoke about this past Sunday. So it got me thinking A. She saw what the rude lady from Switzerland made up about me and instead of calling me back and asking me about it.
B. The C0VlD-19 took over and her and her husband thought it best instead of teaching diving and taking their chances that they may not be able to come back to the US. Still I pondered why they could not call me back as a simple courtesy.
I thought it over and realized it is not that difficult to pick up the phone and let another person know it takes one minute of their time. I do know I have been on that site 2.5 years after the negative remark 1 out of 10 really? I guess I did not worry much about it nor cancel my subscription for the simple fact I was too busy doing other things and It was hard to digest that people could base false assumptions on one person's negative review based on whom maybe not even real. This time though I have more time to ponder staying home more the C0VlD-19 scare and I guess I got pissed off all over again.
I decided I will remove my profile since I can't change what another person who wrote false information about me reminded me about when I was 19 years old and just joined active duty boot camp U.S. Navy. I was in my 3rd week of an 8 week stay in Orlando, Florida.
I kept thinking "does no one love me?" I am being facetious. But you get my point. I did not receive one piece of mail my whole time there ok, perhaps one letter. I thought seriously what the H.. I even asked my mom during one of our 10 minute conversations and she said "Tammy, your friends from school are writing to you". "Me and your dad are writing to you". I did not know what or whom to believe since I was receiving zip. Thank god I got those short phone calls to keep me going, especially from my father who had a good sense. "He would say "Just play the game you have 3 more weeks, the real Navy is not like boot camp" and thank god, he was right.
I went afterwards from Orlando, Florida to San Diego, Ca. to my "A" school meaning my 16 week Communications School then onwards to 8 weeks of intensive Satcom (Satellite Communication School) in Augusta, Ga. While I was in "A." school in San Diego, I would meet new friends and I would get this very strange response every time. The new person I would meet would say "Hey I know A Kosco'' (Yes, they call you by your last name) but it is not you! I thought how strange a comment that is. I soon became aware that there was a person with the very first and surname of myself and the strangest part of it all was that girl also was in my Boot Camp (one week ahead of me so a different division) and the chances of the same "A", school are beyond my wildest imagination. I for whatever reason chose not to meet her, when I saw her playing pool with my friends. I wanted to be the only Tammy Kosco for that matter, who gave her the right to have the same name and school as me? That was my 19 year old thinking at the time. I soon learned she was the one receiving all my mail from My family and My friends. The part was she was the Tammy Kosco that broke the rules and got caught. One thing one learns quickly in the military is to break the rules but don't get caught. Meaning we were not allowed to wear civilian clothes for the first 6 weeks of our "A" school. Yes, they really do give you a clothing chit (a piece of paper giving you authorization to wear jeans or shorts or t-shirt). Yes, you can get kicked out of the Navy for breaking these rules and getting caught. She did precisely that and got caught. The medical I soon learned (thank goodness I had given blood in High School once and remembered my blood type B (which they even got our blood types mixed up. In my medical records and on my dog tags (yes we had dog tags) I assume the A blood type was the other Tammy Kosco (did she have my blood type on her dog tag I pondered) that was the chain I wore every day on my very own neck for Christ's sake did this really happen are they that incompetent what else could they have screwed up our test scores? These are some of the questions I thought.
This brings me to present day my question to you is simple: "When this happens in a business setting a website perhaps or on your personal comments etc. a person writes a wrongful accusation like a slander". Knowing you are innocent how do you prevent this from ruining future business prospects (naturally it is a whole other ball game when someone tries to sue in the U.S. especially we know that is a high possibility and that is why we have legal documents in place to coa (cover our a$$) but I am glad today this question got me thinking when I have a successful business and this sort of thing happens what would you do?
Thanks for reading and your time. Stay safe!
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