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In addition, Kibbey offered me a new name and identity, with a new drivers license and everything, if I were to go back to work at Giganews.

What? Why? The whole story seems disjointed.



Yeah, that's where my BS detector started beeping. How would a new identity help if he were going to be working with the same people face-to-face?

This line is also phrased very oddly: I've linked pictures of my Giganews badge and the shirts with their red armor logo I was forced to wear when working there.

Forced? So, it was a uniform? I've worked at a department store, and I wouldn't use the phrase "forced" because they required me to wear a name badge.


If you try hard enough, you can find a dystopian police state anywhere you want.


Well, and this:

> It was then that I realized that the fed I was talking to had been my coworker at Giganews since I started in 2009!

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I would instantly recognize any coworker I'd known for three years.


The word coworker can mean a lot of things. I worked at a company of 14,000 and while technically they would all be my coworkers, I probably would struggle to recognize more than 100 of them that I sat in the same room as every day. I've met more than a few "coworkers" from that company who drove a semi in Florida for the company while I worked five states away in an office.

Even at my current company with ~100 employees, damn if I could recognize the accountants just by seeing their face out of context.


A lot of this story suggests that a diagnosis of delusional paranoid schizophrenic seems plausible. They are also have issues with reasoning abilities, thus the disjointedness.


That made no sense to me when I read it.

It would be a great bit on SNL though:

Coworker: "Hey Nick, when did you color your hair. . .and. . get glasses?"

Nick: "You must have me mistaken with some other employee, I'm not Nick Caputo, here, look at my ID."

Coworker: "Nick, dude, I know its you, you're the only guy I know who has a Zelda tattoo on their wrist."

Nick: "Like I said, you have me confused with someone else" hurries away in opposite direction

I was actually starting to believe this story, then he hit me with that little diddy and it was all downhill from there.


Yea seriously, If everyone at Giganews is in on it why the hell did he need a new identity?




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