Yesterday, Agency Spy broke the news that a couple of employees at a New York-based ad agency were caught on film having sex in a cubicle, and today Gawker posted the whole (unsexy) video. The employee who shot the video (and was subsequently fired) agreed to give us an anonymous interview.What the heck happened?
It was one Friday afternoon and I received a call from a co-worker that he had found, or stumbled upon, two people making love in a cubicle. I didn't believe him, but I just ran up to meet him anyway to see what it was and sure enough, there were two people doing it. I know their names but I don't know them personally. It was around 5:10 in the afternoon -- not very late at all. It's an ad agency, so there are people there around the clock. The creatives don't leave until around 7 or 8.
And you just ran and grabbed a camera or what?
It was my cell phone, so my co-worker was snapping pictures with his iPhone and I was taping with my cell phone and there was a third guy who was just watching. It was like the Little Rascals just peeping over the wall giggling and running away and then coming back. It lasted about a good 20 minutes.
Find out how the video went viral and its cameraman lost his job after the jump.
And how did the video get out?
I showed a couple of officemates on my phone and everyone was shocked and awed. I downloaded it to my computer and sent it on to two other co-workers and that was all the digital distribution I did and it just went viral from there. And a week later it ended up on Gawker and Mediabistro and then the word got back to me that all the creatives were sending it around. I freaked. I thought it was amazing how something could go viral and end up online so quickly when I had nothing to do with it really. I didn't call Gawker. I didn't e-mail anybody.
So how did they trace it back to you?
My theory is that someone in the agency who knew it was on my phone ratted me out. I got approached by HR and I was questioned and confessed and they said thanks for your honesty but we gotta let you go.
What about the people who were having sex in the office?
They still work there. I think it's wrong. I don't see why I should get canned and not the ones who were doing the deed. But my plan is just to keep on trucking and find another job. My true goal is to join an agency as an art director.
Um, does anybody have a job for this poor dude?


























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Tuesday 25 November
By Tom
Uh, maybe they traced it back to him through the fact that you can briefly see the reflection of his face in the window. Brother.
Edit, man! You could still be a fluffer for your disgraced boss if you'd snipped that self portrait shot out of the vid.
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Thursday 27 November
By john
Hey Ho ! Anyone can see his name and phone number on the corner of the screen !
Don't forget it was an iPhone.
Tuesday 02 December
By AnonAdhole
I work at Atmo and I know all the people involved. The guy who's face is in the reflection is not the videographer. He was the dude who was looking but not taping/photographing anything. He still has his job. The lovemakers- they both got fired yesterday.
Tuesday 25 November
By josh
wow. this guy is incredibly dumb. his reflection is in the video, he e-mailed it to people at his office, he showed it to people in person on his phone, and still can't figure out how they traced it back to him
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Wednesday 26 November
By Jimmy Dean
Hmmm... a job for this "poor guy"...
Janitor? Bus boy, maybe? I don't know, what other jobs are suitable for a FUCKING MORON?
If there wasn't malice behind his passing on this video then it must have been blinding stupidity.
And if it's still so difficult to understand, THEY didn't get canned because even though what they did was stupid, it was harmless. YOU got canned because you've taken a momentary and personal indiscretion between two people and turned into a disaster for them, their families, their agency, and thankfully for you too.
This "poor guy" deserves every consequence he's experienced and hopefully a lawsuit to boot. The only sympathy I feel is for his parents... their baby boy was born without a brain.
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Wednesday 26 November
By brim
The embarrassment?lol, for the family's? your kidding me right? the guy who taped it should be written up or suspended , for not going to h.r.immediately and letting something like that go, ! the two dunder heads who were violating god knows how many company's guidelines should be sued!i mean, if it was your office, you would comment like that? that was sick, what kind of company doesn't have there people under control. wow
you should go work there,and thank god there family's know they produced two dumb jackasses,lol
feel sorry, you hire em at your company.
i'll take the guy who recorded it at least he got the company public.
Wednesday 26 November
By Andrew
Honestly, they were having sex at 5:10 in the afternoon. This isn't like some 2am working late romp.
If anyone should get fired it's the two romping in the office in the afternoon. This guy was just a citizen journalist. Give the man a pulitzer prize for videojournalism.
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Wednesday 26 November
By BS
Yea, that's your fault, you emailed the video around, better hope you don't see a lawsuit, never mind find another job!
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Wednesday 26 November
By Fenris
He should get a lawyer. Filming people where there is not an expectation of privacy is not illegal. Perhaps he did violate the terms of email use for the company but since it appears many others also mailed the video the company was not consistent in its enforcement of its own policy. My guess is the agency would settle vs having all the related email subpoenaed and people who viewed it and forwarded it exposed.
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Wednesday 26 November
By Mike
I'd fire him too.
Yes, the people having sex in the office were stupid. But let's be honest: there's *always* stuff happening "in the office". OK, granted, my cubicle neighbours have never done the nasty in an open cube beside me ... but I've certainly seen a lot of "closed door office meetings" in my time.
The difference between their stupidity and his is that their stupidity didn't hurt anyone. Recording somebody and sending it all over the office and Internet? That shows a serious lack of judgement.
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Wednesday 26 November
By Ducky
Fenris... Actually, since NY is an "employment-at-will" state "an employer has the right to discharge an employee at any time for any reason"
http://www.labor.state.ny.us/workerprotection/laborstandards/faq.shtm#14
So the idiot can be fired for, well, just being an idiot.
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Wednesday 26 November
By Robert
Yeah, but that also means one can go collect unemployment without the company producing proper documentation of termination. You CAN fire someone for any reason, but be ready to pay for it.
Friday 05 December
By drunkifer
Even though New York is an employment at will state, you can still file a wrongful termination suit, and win. My dad did against a VERY large corporation and got his job back and his slate cleared, but his circumstances were very different than this situation. Anyways, you can fight your termination just about anywhere if you have a really great attorney.
Wednesday 26 November
By Fletch
I'd fire the people porking before I'd fire the dude filming. Spreading biological material around the office is far more disgusting than the sod who filmed it.
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Wednesday 26 November
By barrington
Hey Jimmy Dean,
Go make some sausage you idiot. You're probably the janitor at the jimmy dean sausage factory. Those two fools who got caught fucking at 5pm on the floor of a cubicle office should be fired. They should of thought of their families, job, etc before they had their little soap opera romp.
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Wednesday 26 November
By Frank Drebin
Come on guys, they were having sex in the office. If they hadn't done that wholly inappropriate unprofessional act in the work place this guy wouldn't have had a chance to get fired for sending the video of it out.
Who really showed more lack of judgment, honestly? The video getting sent around and the eventual high publicity value of the story is a byproduct of these two people having sex in the work place.
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Wednesday 26 November
By JB
I think this guy shouldn't have axe the axe alone...yes he was video taping and he should have done something to stop it instead of filming it..but come on, people having sex in the office during normal work hours and they didn't get fired? also if they were able to trace it back to him, how come they didn't realize whose desk that was? someone has to know...
sorry to hear he got fired, but its not fair for him...everyone in that video should have been let go!
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Wednesday 26 November
By Brian
You people who say the filmer got what he deserved have no clue what you are talking about. Having sex in the office when coworkers are there is called SEXUAL HARASSMENT!! He absolutely should get an attorney and file a wrongful termination suit as well as sue the two people who were having sex for sexual harassment. Those people had no right to an expectation of privacy in the office and what they did was clearly illegal. Every employee of every company in this country has a legal right to expect NOT to be exposed to sexual material at work. Not only should this guy get his job back the two bangers should be fired along with anyone in HR who was involved with the firing of the filmer.
This guy has rights and his rights were violated when he was fired. Admittedly it was not too smart to send the film to anyone or show it to anyone.
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Wednesday 26 November
By Jeff
FAG! Who the fuck cares if people are having sex in their cubicles after closing time? Just because you aren't getting any doesn't mean others shouldn't get any either, anal retentive prick.
Wednesday 26 November
By mike hillard
very interesting. what was the end result? is there going to be a follow up?
Mike
http://stuffididlastnight.com
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