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Worker Who Was Laid-Off After Completing A Major Project Uses His Final Days To Get Pay Back Against Company
Your Tango ^ | Mar 22, 2023 | Megan Quinn

Posted on 03/23/2023 9:07:26 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

of his hard work benefit the company in any way. In an ultimate form of revenge, he was sure to make them aware of the mistake they made by firing him, and he is not alone.

He was fired after working on a major project for the company. The laid-off worker used his final days on the job to delete all of the work he had completed for the company so that they would have to start from scratch.

Getting laid off from a job is nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, 40% of Americans have been fired from a job in their lifetime at least once. However, they may not always seek to plot pay back on the companies who let them go and take the measures that this man took.

The employee shared his story to the subreddit thread, r/antiwork. It was later discovered by TikTok user @gabrielle_judge, and she took it upon herself to post his revenge tale in one of her own videos, in what she calls the most “insane” work story.

According to the post, the man worked for a billing office and composed programs that made it easier to keep record of clients, payment methods and records. It was extremely beneficial to the company and consumed a lot of time for him to complete. Unfortunately after finishing up the programs, the man was fired from his job. He was told to wrap up any remaining work he had for the company in two weeks before he was officially let go.

That’s when the man decided that he would get the ultimate revenge against the company and make them regret their decision. “In that time, I removed every program I’d created for them and put them back on their outdated, original program,” he wrote.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: conman; fired; fraudster; grifter; layoff; malicious; parasite; payback; revenge; sabotage; thief
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Whether this example is real or not, this is why companies lock everyone out, THEN tell them they are fired.


61 posted on 03/23/2023 11:24:08 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Donnafrflorida

That is certainly the more typical way such things are handled in most places.


62 posted on 03/23/2023 11:25:42 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

>>I lived by the saying “Don’t burn your bridges.” Never know when you might need one.

That reminds me of this story:

A man got off of a train, approached an old man sitting on a bench at the train station, and said:

“Hey old man, I am looking for a new place to live. What is it like here?”

The old man replied, “What was it like where you came from?”

The man replied, “I couldn’t stand it! The people were really hateful!”

The old man suggested, “You should get back on the train and try somewhere else. People in this town are like that.”

So, the man got back on the train, and it departed.

A while later a man got off of another train, approached the old man, and asked the same question:

“Hey old man, I am looking for a new place to live. What is it like here?”

The old man replied, “What was it like where you came from?”

The man replied, “The people were very nice, but it was too cold for me. I need to live in a warmer climate.”

The old man suggested, “Why don’t you live here? People in this town are like that.”

Mr. Kalamata


63 posted on 03/23/2023 11:33:02 AM PDT by Kalamata (President Trump, the ONLY candidate who is NOT OWNED by the Deep State.)
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To: Malsua
What company fires a programmer and doesn’t walk them out the door that day and makes sure they don’t get their hands on anything?

None, which is why this is BS.

64 posted on 03/23/2023 11:38:57 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“Do you believe stories by anonymous that have absolutely nothing that can be checked?

Personally, I don’t.”

Like I tell the wife...

It’s on the Internet, so it MUST be true. /s


65 posted on 03/23/2023 12:01:55 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Worker Who Was Laid-Off After Completing A Major Project Uses His Final Days To Get Pay Back Against Company

When I was with EDS (Electronic Data Systems - Ross Perot's old company) there was a fellow Oracle DBA who had a system go down on Friday and he worked non-stop all weekend to recover and restore it. On Monday they notified him he'd been "officially terminated" on Friday. He threatened to sue, but the EDS jerkwad who was the "Engagement Manager" (total incompetent and unqualified) told him that they would "just throw his suit on the stack with the 75+ others". I quit soon afterwards, so I don't know what, if anything he did, but pretty much anything would've been justified.

66 posted on 03/23/2023 2:50:47 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Ultra MAGA in Biden's Post Constitutional United Socialist States of Amerika!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

He was paid for that work. He should be required to it give all of it back to the company or face serious prison time.


67 posted on 03/23/2023 2:54:17 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

These actions by this laid off employee is the reason why many companies treat their laid off employees like criminals when they get laid off. The company that has these policies are doing this to avoid sabotage.

Plus why is this idiot going on TikTok to brag about this? Makes no sense to me. This is similar to other idiots who brag about getting paid to do nothing. Why tell the world that?


68 posted on 03/23/2023 3:50:22 PM PDT by DMD13
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To: Karma_Sherab

That is good advise, never burn a bridge if you can help it.


69 posted on 03/23/2023 3:52:34 PM PDT by DMD13
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To: Malsua

First sentence. Precisely. That’s what Fridays are for


70 posted on 03/23/2023 6:23:54 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Mr. Lucky
And that is what it is, a story.

To be regarded as dubious until you have something to back it up.

This is like using a tale you heard one drunk tell another at a pub as the basis for an article. Worse actually because you could at least tell if the story spinner in the bar was an adult or a snotty twelve year old.

71 posted on 03/23/2023 6:32:54 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ("EATING... BABIES.... IS NOT.... COOL!" -Rath)
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To: Karliner

I know of people who were let go that knew the systems inside and out who refused to be rehired and insisted on consultant contracts to fix the systems. One was such a critical system, the management team was telling HR to pay whatever fee the person wanted.


72 posted on 03/23/2023 7:47:10 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Bernard
One thing to consider is that the employee might not have been a programmer in IT. The description of what he developed sounds like a custom process developed in MS Access or some other software used in the business side of the office.

This was my first thought, too.

I had something similar happen to me during an odd eddy in my career path. I was a college-trained professional programmer going back to the mainframe days. After the completion of a major multi-year IT project decades later, I was misplaced in the "business unit" supporting the business help desk staff. Out of place for my skillset, I took it upon myself to build an Access database and front-end GUI to support the support staff of 100 people to respond to and fix reported system issues.

After single-handedly building a prioritization system that got a dozen disparate business segments to agree with each other on resolution priorities (everyone previously argued that their bugs were the most important), and personally running the monthly prioritization and scheduling meetings, my position (but not the work) was eliminated in the next round of layoffs.

Fortunately, I found a position back in the IT department where I could properly contribute with my natural skillset for the remainder of my career, but unfortunately, the person who took over my prior prioritization role in the business unit died of a brain aneurysm a few months later.

-PJ

73 posted on 03/23/2023 8:13:59 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Mean Daddy

Sounds like the story my dad told me is sort of a recurring theme? Very smart though..hate your job or want job security and have the smarts...why not?


74 posted on 03/23/2023 10:02:23 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Karliner

These were people who they laid off but then they realized that to ramp up another person on a complicated system was costing them $$$. When you get a call like that, it’s a blank check.


75 posted on 03/24/2023 2:32:06 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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