By Matthew “Scratch” De Reno
CoverUps Investigator
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Norman Horvath, an MIT engineering drop-out and an inveterate tinkerer, had a comfortable niche working as a Financial Analyst at FedEx. But all that’s come to a screeching halt, because Horvath insisted on bringing one of his inventions to the office. In hindsight, it’s surprising he didn’t see the trouble he was bringing on himself coming.
“When he started wearing those X-ray goggles to work, it really gave some of the ladies the chills,” said Maxwell Beauregard, Director of FedEx World Revenue Operations, in an exclusive interview with CoverUps.
Horvath’s coworkers thought the oversized black goggles were just a bizarre gimmick. Then Horvath inadvertently left them on his desk one day and one of his colleagues tried them on. To his utter shock and amazement, he found they were the real McCoy.
“You can see through women's clothes with those things!” Beauregard exclaimed. “It was very exciting troubling. I had to use them myself for several weeks confiscate them immediately and store them under lock and key while we conducted a thorough investigation.”
Although the FedEx employee handbook says nothing specifically about X-Ray Vision goggles in the workplace, company executives had a strong urge to issue them to all supervisory level male employees deliberated thoughtfully and came to a bitterly divided unanimous decision that they constituted a violation of the spirit and intent of FedEx policies on privacy and trying not to ogle all the pretty female employees, etc. etc. A ban was put in effect. Damn it!
“I think what finally did Horvath in was when he added a camera to the goggles,” Beauregard said. “Then when he started circulating the images around the work place, some of the more buxom female employees threatened to sue, so we had to can him.”
CoverUps obtained a small number several thousand of the photos captured from Horvath’s controversial gadget. We took the journalistic high road yeah right and elected not to post them for purposes this article.
CoverUps reviewed countless images taken with Horvath’s goggles and found a mother-lode of really neat porno that corporate HR-types would highly object to nothing that might be conscrued as a direct violation of the FedEx handbook’s policy on sexual harassment.
“X-Ray Vision goggles sure raise the bar when it comes to what might be a violation of our policy,” said Beauregard.
We agreed. It sure raised our bar.
(Scratch De Reno can be reached at Scratch@Coverups.com)