Illicit Tidbits

In this week's employee meeting, an issue was raised and brought to everyone's attention--inappropriate pictures left on the electronic devices which we are trying to sell.

The other day, a fellow employee was approached by a family who was interested in purchasing a PSP. This co-worker of mine gladly unlocked the game case and took out the PSP which the family indicated they wanted. Her original intention was to turn on the electronic gadget to show them that it was in proper working order, but she was shocked when the device activated and the background of the main screen was a picture of "a woman and her bum in a strange position." She tried to go into the settings menus, but try as she might, she was unable to figure out how to remove the picture. After several unsuccessful attempts, she flagged down another worker and had them delete everything on the PSP--because there was no telling what else could have been on there.

This inspired another person to share a somewhat related experience of when a distraught young woman came into the store. She had just learned that her boyfriend had sold his cell phone to us and she was certain that he had not deleted the "inappropriate pictures"--most likely of her--that had been saved on it.

Another person offered a story of how they were starting up someone's laptop in order to check the system specifications (hard drive size, RAM, processor, etc) in order to price it for a pawn loan. When the main screen came on, rather than the peaceful blue of the generic Windows background, there was a collage of pornographic pictures.

This brought us to the conclusion that it is now mandatory that we check all electronic devices which are capable of saving pictures--XBOX 360s, PSPs, PS3s, cell phones, Game Boys, etc--for things which should not be on them. Apparently, there had been a former employee who had been especially good at discovering these illicit tidbits. Only, rather than promptly deleting these naughty media files, he perused them at his leisure and took great pleasure in it. Sleazy, yes, but also hilarious.