Life as a Newbie

Being new has it's lerks and perks.
A perk seems to be merrily slinking off to the bathroom because you have recently increased your water consumption exponentially.
Also you can happily give wide eyed answers to questions because you genuinely do not know the answer, as a result of being new, as opposed to playing dumb.
And because you are new you can easily spend time catching up on the odd email, because nobody quite trusts you enough to do something major.

Today marked a complete week at my new job.
Lets just say that my predecessor seems to have been unliked... well fairly furiously.
Listening to my employers qualms about GBM (Guy Before Me), I feel confident that I will probably not suffer the same pitfalls as him.
He seemed to have strange work ethics, and while he was being guided worked well until someone looked the other way and it all fell to pieces so I am fairly confident that (at this stage at least) I won't get the arse the way he did.
Yesterday I was doing a GBM clean up, getting rid of some of the stuff littering his desk and decided to clean out my sent emails when I came across personal emails from him to his partner about work/family/money concerns, nothing earth shattering.
Of course. These. Should. NOT. Be. Read.
I should have deleted them, and I did immediately but as I was permanently deleting things I couldn't help but have a little kibitz on his life. Very bad I know.
(DISCLAIMER; I DIDN'T READ ALL OF THE OVER 100 EMAILS THERE WERE)
BOY did he like to email. And tell his partner how much he loved her.
Sweet but seven emails in one day to that effect... too much. And time consuming because most of them had word file attachments.
The phrase "I don't know what GBM did but..." I guess I know the answer.

Oh and yes, I am a snoop.
Sweet but nine emails in one day to that effect? Too much me thinks.