WEBVTT 00:00:01.024 --> 00:00:03.024 Technology is amazing. 00:00:03.143 --> 00:00:08.755 It lets me and my colleagues do our work in some pretty amazing ways. 00:00:08.827 --> 00:00:13.411 Sometimes I get my way just by asking for what I want. 00:00:13.998 --> 00:00:15.364 Don't know what I mean by that? 00:00:15.429 --> 00:00:19.380 Well, I'm not sure I want you to see this next one, 00:00:19.407 --> 00:00:22.583 because it's one of my favorite ploys to use. 00:00:22.718 --> 00:00:24.427 Ah... why not? 00:00:30.896 --> 00:00:33.966 ... soon you'll be hearing more details about the latest acquisition 00:00:33.977 --> 00:00:36.025 which I am very excited about, 00:00:36.036 --> 00:00:39.692 because it's the center of our strategic yet aggressive growth plan. 00:00:39.811 --> 00:00:43.083 Again, more formal information will be released in the coming days. 00:00:43.124 --> 00:00:45.217 So to wrap up this quarterly update 00:00:45.228 --> 00:00:48.622 we talked about the importance of growth and the importance... 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:51.741 Hmmm... talk about crazy timing... 00:00:51.876 --> 00:00:54.632 It's an email from Roy? Already? 00:00:54.814 --> 00:00:59.148 Hi Jenny, the following is confidential so please keep this between us for now. 00:00:59.282 --> 00:01:00.948 We have a time sensitive opportunity 00:01:00.959 --> 00:01:03.292 to make our latest acquisition successful. 00:01:03.396 --> 00:01:04.948 I need your help to make it happen. 00:01:04.995 --> 00:01:07.926 Valerie Vesper is an attorney working with us on the deal, 00:01:07.937 --> 00:01:10.393 she's coordinating the financials on this. 00:01:10.495 --> 00:01:14.751 I need you to work with her to send all our employee W2's to her this afternoon, 00:01:14.762 --> 00:01:16.362 she'll contact you shortly. 00:01:16.465 --> 00:01:20.784 This needs to stay between you, me, and Valerie for now. 00:01:22.700 --> 00:01:24.112 Hmmm... Okay... 00:01:26.325 --> 00:01:27.518 HR. This is Jenny. 00:01:27.581 --> 00:01:28.440 Jenny Mathers? 00:01:28.512 --> 00:01:29.174 Yes. 00:01:29.263 --> 00:01:30.768 Hi! Valerie Vesper here. 00:01:30.882 --> 00:01:33.987 You may have received an email about the confidential acquisition... 00:01:34.059 --> 00:01:35.815 Yes. I just saw that. 00:01:35.871 --> 00:01:38.151 Good. We have a competitive situation here. 00:01:38.162 --> 00:01:41.346 The faster we act, the better our chances of completing the acquisition. 00:01:41.402 --> 00:01:42.315 Understood. 00:01:42.449 --> 00:01:44.620 Great. We need the employee information - 00:01:44.631 --> 00:01:47.503 including all W2s to confirm payroll, etc. 00:01:47.513 --> 00:01:50.096 We need to email that within the next hour. 00:01:50.153 --> 00:01:51.940 Oh, wow! 00:01:52.043 --> 00:01:53.487 That isn't a problem is it, Jenny? 00:01:53.528 --> 00:01:54.549 Well... 00:01:54.949 --> 00:01:57.159 I'm sensing some hesitancy. 00:01:57.299 --> 00:01:59.487 This deal is riding on getting that data. 00:01:59.527 --> 00:02:02.706 Well... it's just we have to have two approvals on something like this. 00:02:02.763 --> 00:02:06.464 Of course. We need to work quick. If you give me their email addresses, 00:02:06.475 --> 00:02:09.730 I can do the rest and send them the information for final approval. 00:02:09.787 --> 00:02:10.865 Oh... 00:02:11.131 --> 00:02:12.246 sure. 00:02:12.327 --> 00:02:16.230 The first one is... Loretta.White@WorldView.com. 00:02:16.489 --> 00:02:17.934 Good. And the second? 00:02:18.069 --> 00:02:22.246 The second is... Edward.Hernandez@WorldView.com. 00:02:22.396 --> 00:02:25.449 Jenny, thank you. You've made this so much easier. 00:02:26.803 --> 00:02:28.918 I'll say you made things easier Jenny. 00:02:29.005 --> 00:02:30.699 Wow! Hah... 00:02:30.803 --> 00:02:35.152 Like I said, all we needed to do was combine some techno trickery 00:02:35.266 --> 00:02:38.887 with a sense of urgency and a request for help. 00:02:38.959 --> 00:02:42.637 As you might guess, Valerie got what she needed from Jenny. 00:02:42.813 --> 00:02:48.276 She got the names and email addresses of two high level approvers, 00:02:48.287 --> 00:02:51.349 somethings that isn't always easy to get. 00:02:51.953 --> 00:02:54.873 She sent the email and copied Jenny, 00:02:54.884 --> 00:02:59.086 she repeated the need for confidentiality, and before you know it 00:02:59.097 --> 00:03:03.721 the approvals were in place and the data was in our email boxes 00:03:03.732 --> 00:03:06.180 before anyone even knew what happened. 00:03:06.564 --> 00:03:10.813 It all started with some impressive email address cloning 00:03:10.824 --> 00:03:13.275 so that original note to Jenny... 00:03:13.286 --> 00:03:14.948 looked legit. 00:03:16.301 --> 00:03:18.301 Simply beautiful. 00:03:18.529 --> 00:03:21.992 I have to say it was a proud moment for me. 00:03:24.094 --> 00:03:24.800 I couldn't believe 00:03:24.811 --> 00:03:28.255 how quickly this person was able to get that information out of me. 00:03:28.404 --> 00:03:30.404 I'm trained to be suspicious, 00:03:30.431 --> 00:03:32.520 but it was all set up with that email, 00:03:32.592 --> 00:03:34.364 it looked so real. 00:03:35.093 --> 00:03:36.632 I should've known 00:03:36.643 --> 00:03:38.288 that anything this important 00:03:38.299 --> 00:03:42.335 shouldn't be something I can't discuss internally with anyone else.