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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas
In New Zealand the one person consent law applies here.
I've done it three times now. The first time was with my lesbian nieghbour, Dyky Poo. Dyky Poo cut down my trees to get better sunlight on her section. After she had called me the C word a number of times and told me why she chainsawed down my trees, I said thanks, and pulled the recording device out of my top pocket. She went beserk. Such a beautiful sight.
The second time was an accountant looking after a family trust whom I suspect had other intentions for the money. It sorted him out.
The third time was when I suspected I was going to get fired. It turned out I wsas right, but by having the recording device and knowing my employment law rights, I became $17,000 better off. Plus the look on the guys face when he found he was being recorded was priceless.
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Hero.
My guess is that even in states where it's illegal, you'd have to be using a recording device in the furtherance of some other wrongdoing to get into trouble for it. Trying to protect yourself from bogus charges by recording them is not going to excite a DA.
Stories like these make me happy to work from home and rarely see any co-workers in person. I was accused of making some inappropriate comments to an elderly female co-worker many years ago. Trouble was that what she accused me of saying to her was exactly what she had said to me and I didn't care. Better yet, we all worked in an open office and all of us talked very openly in front of others. Both bosses witnessed this. But another friend overheard this old lady complaining about me to the boss after I had left one day. He called me at home and told me to expect to get a talking to in the morning from the boss. He said it would be nothing since everyone knew this lady had actually said to me what she was accusing me of having said to her. But sure enough, the next morning my boss repeated these charges to me, knowing the truth, but acting like she didn't and was a complete robot about it. That's when I knew I had to keep my mouth shut and find another job, which I did.