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Panama_Red
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What to do if coworkers find out I grow?
#25303726 - 07/02/18 02:22 AM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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I know that it was very stupid of me to do this, and I know this topic is probably beaten to death, but I was discussing growing with a good friend of mine who wants to try shrooms, and a few of our coworkers overheard us. None of them know where I live, and my employers don’t have my current address. Should I destroy all the evidence, or is that unnecessary?
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Panama_Red]
#25304001 - 07/02/18 07:48 AM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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I would. Immediately.
Unlike blabbing to friends, where I suggest waiting at least a year and mentioning it failed/inviting them over so they see it doesn't exist anymore, I'd also not start back up again while you have the same job.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Kryptos]
#25304327 - 07/02/18 11:11 AM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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You shouldnt talk about the things you do that are not "normal people" things. I leave you with all these posters from WWII in regards to the same concept:

Classic mistake is thinking anyone cares unless they are out to get you. Your making a classic mistake. You might be ok you might not be, youll never know until its too late.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Violet Wizard] 1
#25304602 - 07/02/18 02:23 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Violet Wizard said: Classic mistake is thinking anyone cares unless they are out to get you. Your making a classic mistake. You might be ok you might not be, youll never know until its too late.
Important for two reasons: 1) work grudges can easily become criminal charges, if the wrong person finds out. 2) Google "how to help a drug addict". Literally. Look at advice that a non-drug user would get, if they were trying to help someone.
For me, the top three links all suggested that the concerned party should call the cops on them to "shock them" into changing their ways.
Someone could put you in prison for years, all while ultimately believing they are doing the right thing and helping you.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Kryptos]
#25304628 - 07/02/18 02:34 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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The only things I speak of are quasi legal hobbies that sound ok making fireworks from scratch, wine and distilled spirits, my gemstone collection things like that.
I often speak more of positive things then illegal stuff, my higher education and passions etc. So I say things like "nah i can get my own weed, my skill set means i can trade rather then pay" they dont know im talking about something other then fireworks alcohol or something related to chemistry... but i never say "i extract things from bark arent i cool!"
Its way more fun to be mysterious like "well hes got a lot of skills i wonder what he isnt saying..." and its all spoken of in the past but then again im over 30 so saying "i grew mushrooms in college" means like 10 years ago lol
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Kryptos]
#25304770 - 07/02/18 03:46 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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If I left my job ASAP, would that increase my chances of being ok? That place doesn’t have my real address, and app any of my coworkers know about me is my name. Besides, I need a new job anyway. I’d rather not throw all of my stuff out, but I’d really rather not go to prison.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Panama_Red]
#25304775 - 07/02/18 03:47 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Cant you just clean it up and remove the actual issues? Nothing should be explicitly illegal unless kept together.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Violet Wizard]
#25304808 - 07/02/18 04:01 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Violet Wizard said: Cant you just clean it up and remove the actual issues? Nothing should be explicitly illegal unless kept together.
I have jars containing mycelium which are illegal.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Panama_Red]
#25304863 - 07/02/18 04:21 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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How far out till they are birthed? Also are you in a more liberal state? I’d like to believe a judge wouldn’t sign a warrant for hearsay just don’t talk anymore but that’s not as good as stopping for now and is still unadviable.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Violet Wizard]
#25304908 - 07/02/18 04:45 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Violet Wizard said: How far out till they are birthed? Also are you in a more liberal state? I’d like to believe a judge wouldn’t sign a warrant for hearsay just don’t talk anymore but that’s not as good as stopping for now and is still unadviable.
They’re maybe 2-3 weeks out. I’m in Utah which is a pretty conservative place, but I live in a small town where you’ll find fairly laid back cops. I was caught with a few grams of weed a few months back, and all I got was a lecture from one of the officers.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Panama_Red]
#25305142 - 07/02/18 06:49 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Panama_Red said: If I left my job ASAP, would that increase my chances of being ok? That place doesn’t have my real address, and app any of my coworkers know about me is my name. Besides, I need a new job anyway. I’d rather not throw all of my stuff out, but I’d really rather not go to prison.
Risk really stays the same, unless you clean house. They could drop a tip with your name.
I also would not count on cops treating a "few grams of weed" the same as "probably the biggest grow op any of them outside of senior leadership have ever seen", since they've probably never seen a grow op.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Kryptos]
#25305156 - 07/02/18 06:57 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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^ raises a good point. Is there anyway you can make it appear not obvious? People look for what they know not what they don’t expect.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Violet Wizard]
#25305221 - 07/02/18 07:32 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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I mean, it’s a tiny op. I only have 4 jars so I could hide them pretty easily. If worse comes to worse, my boss will probably tell me if the cops have been asking for my information, and I could dump everything somewhere in the mountains. There’s also a lot of drugs out here, especially given it’s a college town, so there are other fish to fry.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Panama_Red]
#25305748 - 07/03/18 03:29 AM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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I don't think you will get raided based on an overheard conversation.
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Alan Rockefeller said: I don't think you will get raided based on an overheard conversation.
I've made what i consider "security mistakes" a few times but i just either ghost the person i feel i shouldnt deal or dealt with and just never bring up what i spoke of that i shouldnt have or as others said just deny and come up with a reason.
I have made some pretty bad mistakes myself, usually drunk... this is why people in certain positions shouldnt drink lol. Also never tell women, another mistake plenty of dudes make lol.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Violet Wizard] 2
#25308296 - 07/04/18 01:15 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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My biggest, and so far I believe only, security mistake was telling my best, most trusted friend at the time about my first grow. A week later, he brought three of his friends over that I'd never met before, and one of them asked me about my grow.
I took 24 pf cakes (just starting to pin), poured a DMT extraction in progress (strong base, naptha) directly on them, and lit it all on fire right in front of them.
Two years later, I did my second grow. And kept my mouth shut.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Kryptos]
#25308783 - 07/04/18 07:37 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks for all the advice. I think I’ve got a good plan for dealing with this going forward.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Panama_Red]
#25309355 - 07/05/18 06:51 AM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Your best bet now would be to kill anyone who could have overheard you. Be it man, woman, child, or cat. You can assume the dogs know how to keep their months shut. But seriously what exactly did you say. We're your co workers in the same room when you said it? Or where they actually right next to you and actually taking place in the conversation. If you just said yea you can grow mushrooms in jars. I think you will be ok. If you said yeah I'm growing 100lbs of pounds of shrooms that I sell to little children at the play ground. I might worry a little bit. Although I'm not sure you making some obscure comment about growing mushrooms would be enough for a warrant. Unless you are on probabatio now and currently have no civil rights I wouldn't worry too much. What kind of reaction did your co workers have? I will also say be careful of telling your friends. I had one guy that I swore could keep his mouth shut. Two weeks after I showed him a few shoeboxes. I met with one of his friends who in front of another guy said "so you grow shrooms huh" I had to play it off as nah I know a guy who knows a guy. But that freaked me out to where I never talked with him again and eventually I moved for an unrelated reason. Bottom line your best bet is to tell no one. Even someone you consider your best friend could just blab that shit to anyone and everyone. Because they dont consider it a big deal. And you might not either until your door gets kicked in.
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: Violet Wizard]
#25312859 - 07/07/18 05:31 AM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Violet Wizard said: "nah i can get my own weed, my skill set means i can trade rather then pay"
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Re: What to do if coworkers find out I grow? [Re: boom boom]
#25312871 - 07/07/18 06:08 AM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Sure if I meant anything that was actually overtly illegal. Nothing wrong with trading homemade wine, fireworks, etc. I’ve brought gallons of banana wine to my work to give to coworkers, it’s not all illegal stuff and I show off what isn’t.
My coworker was lighting off fireworks in the parking lot I made. The idea is that I can “do everything” and as such I probably leave details out.
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