The Role of Secrecy
Secrecy can exist anywhere, within groups of people or simply environment settings. There is always access to anything considered to be a “secret.” As it was mentioned in class, the past can always be re-narrative, therefore re-told. Although one may think there will be disclosure about something said or done, there is no guarantee. There is a sense of gain for someone who discovers or exposes the secrecy that exists. The example used to explain the role of secrecy, was the case in which Edward Snowden leaked information on how the National Security Agency (NSA) performs its job. Although many believed that the NSA’s task was to simply control and monitor global intelligence, it was doing more than that. Edward Snowden, an expert in computerization and a former employee of the CIA. Snowden decided to leak
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And it is not allowed, for employees to hang out with managers outside of work because of favoritism. We decided to go out to a restaurant, and most of the time when we would hang out we would just gossip. Well this time, the assistant managers decided to tell us that our general manager was going to quit her job. That night, I remember us just asking why, for what reason was she quitting. The assistant managers would just tell us that things were going to change for the best. Then, one day I was doing my job as a cashier and one of the assistant managers tells me that she knows who the knew general manager is. She then tells me who, and right away she says, “Don’t say anything, nobody knows.” Then a few minutes later, I go to the kitchen, and one of my co-workers tells me, “Did you find out who the new GM is?” And in my head I just thought, “Is this information given by corporate suppose to be shared from managers to cast members, in the first place?” If the assistant manager, had told us to not tell no one means she had no right to share certain