The original post: /r/privacy by /u/Emergency_Assist_136 on 2025-02-21 16:25:01.

The IT Director where I work has made weird comments to me about privacy and what he has access to on devices.

1. When I first started working at the company, he walks in my office and says “you’re all over the dark web”. He proceeded to tell me I should probably change my name. This wasn’t that weird because I have a lot of identity theft but I did wonder why he cared to look me up.
2. On my personal phone, I was in a group chat with him and 2 other employees and he sent a link. I clicked the link and it glitched and acted weird. It never went to what it was supposed to point to. I didn’t think anything of it, but then he would come to my office giggle and ask what I did the night before. He would say I probably should put my phone in another room and not have it next to the bed. He said he could still hear even if the phone was in a drawer.
3. My family is on the same network. Their cellular at home always has more bars. My work phone is the same, only two bars. I was on a Zoom call with him in a meeting. The call participants couldn’t understand me and I had an unstable internet connection. My work computer and work cell are never connected to my home WiFi. They both have FirstNet. I say in the Zoom chat, it’s probably my cellular and it immediately goes from 1-2 bars to 3-4. It stayed that way on the computer for the rest of the day.

He has said other odd stuff to me about listening to my personal calls and that even if I changed networks he could get access. If I confront him on it, he gaslights me. I’m not sure if I’m just being paranoid or if he’s messing with me because I don’t know what’s possible.