Troll hunting and thread deletions

Although dismounting is still a tad disconcerting

I used to find it quite easy - painful but easy. Just try jumping without stirrups ???

Phoenix Your experience was before my time on here but my goodness that’s scary. That’s the problem with SM. We don’t know what characters lurk behind their online persona. I, personally, never give too much away about my rl and other members should make sure they don’t either in my opinion.

Mawb2 been there, done that, although many years ago!

tickingbird I have been a member since before GN existed (sounds odd, but true) I have
had more support than can be imagined over the years, and have been the recipient of such generosity during difficult times.

I shared some stories of my efforts to find a new job after redundancy, and received a lot of support and help from various members.

However it would seem that someone decided that rather than being pleased for me that I had finally found the right job, they would try to get me sacked!

Well, it didn't work.

Actually, I feel a bit sorry for whoever it was, what a sad person they must be to try to get someone sacked after that person (me) had done everything possible to be in gainful employment, rather than on benefit.

My sympathies Phoenix. I have had two people try to get me sacked from my post one was a next door neighbour with whom we had been in dispute who wrote to the trustees of the charity that I was employed by at the time stating that as I held a position of some responsibility and was well known in the community I wasn’t a fit person to hold the post and should be sacked!
The second was our local MP! In a different town (different Job) who had objected to me speaking (as a private citizen) at a political rally and felt that I was using my position in the community to influence the electors contrary to the impartiality demanded by my organisation. In both cases they happily got nowhere but I was still very angry at the attempt to sabotage my career especially as I was the sole bread winner for 3 children and a disabled DH, it felt especially spiteful

jenpax hope you rose above it.

Hope that you’re feeling better about the rotten PM now Marydoll ....a glass of cold champagne???

Phoenix I have never understood how anyone from the forum could have tracked down your boss ( his name and address) it’s beyond bizarre, and why?!

Marydoll I’m astonished at the very unpleasant PM someone had the audacity to send you. I do hope you’ve reported it.

Wow. I find it really weird. The nastiness inside some people, and usually it’s the outwardly pleasant, respectable ones, astounds me. I still prefer to stay anonymous on here and to be honest I don’t really come on much anymore. I find quite a lot of posts on here rather strange and that’s being polite. I’m sure for the most part it’s a good site and there’s much positivity and support but there’s definitely an edge too and I don’t much care for it.

Apologies, MD, I see you have reported it.

lemongrove I was stupid enough to post where my new job was, because I was so proud of the items that were made there! (Still am, actually)

So, easy for someone to find it, and as my (now) late boss's name was on the website, not difficult to get the info to write a letter marked for his attention only.

But what concerned me more, was the sheer spite behind it! Why, would someone I had never met, having read on here of all the troubles I had had, want to try to make me lose my job?

I see Phoenix ( how they managed to do it) it’s more the ‘why’ isn’t it, as I doubt you have/ had a single enemy on this forum, as you stick to mainly upbeat threads.
We have had a plethora of iffy threads in the last year, I hope it stops, am finding GN a strange site just lately.☹️

Thank you Lemongrove but obviously there was/is someone who disliked/hated me enough to do that!

Why, would someone I had never met, having read on here of all the troubles I had had, want to try to make me lose my job?

That's what I'm struggling to come to terms with Phoenix; why? I've tried to be generous of spirit and thought that maybe they're lonely, with nothing much to do. But that doesn't make a normal, rational person do the detective work to track you and then go to the trouble of writing the damned letter, sticking it in an envelope, sticking a stamp on it and taking it to the letter box to post it. It's all too calculated and thought out to be a one-off act. It seems to be the act of a mendacious, driven and spiteful person to me. And I'm not at all sure I want to be mixing with them, albeit unaware of who they are.

Prior to that, it was a very worrying time for phoenix. I do not know exactly where she lives but I was well aware that jobs in her neck of the woods were few and far between. I was also aware that transport was non-existent and her husband also amazingly had to get to work.

She was ecstatic to have found that job and had settled in very well when this GN decided to stick in the knife. Those of us who "knew" phoenix were delighted she had found a job which was a couple of miles from where she lived.

Yes, Chewbacca she did a lot of homework and I do not think that GNHQ or phoenix had a clue to the person's identity. We know the city from where she posted the damning evidence but a lot of GNs live there.

Chewbacca it actually cost them over £2 in postage, and that was over 3 years ago, so they really meant it!

The post mark was from either Glasgow or Edinburgh, can't remember which.

I know, it was Edinburgh!

How sad it is, that some people can be so devious and nasty, to a totally innocent person. Perhaps they were jealous of your popularity here Phoenix? I remember it then, but hadn't realised the person was never "apprehended". Quite concerning.

I just hope that karma does exist for these unkind people.

Well, I'm just sorry that you had to be on the receiving end of a total stranger's mendacity Phoenix. It's depressing to think that they were actually willing to pay good money to see the act through. Seacliff is probably right; jealousy was probably at the root of it but that doesn't excuse what they did.

seacliff thank you.

I appreciate that I can be a bit "marmite" in that not everyone will appreciate my posting style!

Trying to get a person sacked is the lowest of the low, whether jobs are plentiful or not.

But Phoenix the strangest thing is someone going to all that trouble for a complete stranger that's just weird. And you aren't marmite at all, your posts are upbeat and cheerful, a breath of freshair after reading the political ones!

perhaps it wasn't something about you, but an opportunity to grab an identifiable business from details on here.
there was a poison pen in talking heads, it's so well known.
they may well be opportunists, like a burglar trying every door until one opens.
i don't think it is just this site.
on MN they try to get money out of people, or spin long stories of invented medical problems. fantasists/narcissists.

I am very sad to hear that it was posted from Edinburgh, Phoenix, and I can only say that I don't believe any of the Gransnet members that I have met from around here would have been responsible. Perhaps it was someone passing through who sent it from somewhere well away from their home town, so that they would be harder to trace. Was it in July or August, when the city is full of visitors?

I wonder if the same person was responsible for both your letter and MD's PM, phoenix?

It's hard to understand how anyone could be so unkind and devious. It is a warning to all of us that nothing is private on social media and we should be take care with personal details revealed. I'm so sorry this happened to you Phoenix