I'm sorry to hear you received such a disturbing call. If the call was made by a Cisco employee, then it would certainly not meet our general standards for polite behavior, let alone the professional standards our Code of Business Conduct call for from our employees.

If you are seeking a constructive way to address this, I'd recommend making a formal complaint to the Cisco ethics line.

Best regards,

Corporate Renegade

I made some inquiries about this, and rest assured, I can now conclusively assert that there is no clandestine or any formal action into our good pal Brad Reese.

Although, I was informed that there has been a series of prank calls of a juvenile nature (involving silly pornographic voice mails) made from meeting rooms at Cisco's San Jose campus, according to its internal records.

My source is a very senior attorney inside Cisco's Legal Dept. This source is extremely reliable and credible, given that 99.9% of the stuff this individual has coveyed to me were proven to be true and factual.

According to the source, any and all actions initiated by 'corporate investigations' has to be rubber-stamped by an internal security team that legal oversees. There is absolutely nothing on-going or impending on Brad Reese. The source also has limited access to call records (mainly for compliance for securities and corporate legal purposes). Cisco Legal and PR has ben in contact with Brad on previous occasions but not in relation to this story. It appears that Brad's cell phone # was dialed from Cisco's San Jose campus --- but not from a person's desk, instead from a meeting room (where the outgoing number displays the main switchboard number).

The source further states one one particular occasion two 'senior directors' inside Cisco's Corporate Development team (according to meeting room booking logs) who initiated phone calls of an inappropriate nature to Brad Reese's cell phone. It is unclear whether a voice mail was left or if Brad was a party to these childish display of conduct by Cisco employees.

I would be happy to share the particulars of the alleged individual partly responsible for the alleged calls but that could also divulge the identity of my source. I am not sure if Brad would initiate a formal complaint to Cisco (especially now that Mike Quinn is gone and not sure who will make it a 'hobby' to address these), still, if these allegations are true, then it not only violates Cisco's internal employee code of conduct (e.g. harassment, inappropriate behaviour, viewing inappropriate adult content within Cisco's offices, etc), it demonstrates as to what kinda people actually 'work' there (and I use the term 'work' rather broadly).

Therefore, confirmed. It was a prank call, although it is unclear whether it was one phone call or a series of calls (the sources suggests it was two).