HR Contacts Ex-Employee A Month After Laying Them Off, Asks For “Passwords And Where Things Are,” Others Share Similar Stories
Work is a necessary evil. Nobody said it’d be pleasant, let alone that it ought to be so, but it’s a necessity because we need money to buy things we kinda need and kinda don’t need, so it’s what it’s.
And sure, work can be pleasant, but in most cases it isn’t, and there are a million-billion reasons for it. One very common reason, though, is the people you work with.
What could make it even worse is the fact that once you do leave work for good, it might not mean that you’ll never hear from them again, as they might be looking for a password nobody bothered to save or even communicate.
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Turns out, even if you get laid off from work, you might still get contacted with requests to share passwords and explain how things work
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So, a Redditor by the nickname of u/thefarmerdan recently vented their frustration with an ex-employer who got in touch with them to ask about what the passwords are and where things are stored.
In context, Dan explained that they felt used, disposable, and disrespected in the company, so you can imagine how they must have felt—especially after what was a good day with their kid—when the HR of the company started messaging them.
But besides expressing their frustrations, they also asked the r/AntiWork community if not replying and blocking the number would come back to bite them on the butt later on.
This is exactly what happened to this one Redditor, who didn’t know what to do, so he turned to r/AntiWork for answers
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And the subreddit immediately came up with devious ways how they can actually respond. For the most part, it was them suggesting that the OP look at it as consulting: name a fee that would satisfy you, and then pitch it to them. If they don’t accept, their loss! And if they do, hey, you just got paid a fortune.
It didn’t take long for the post to take off with nearly 32K upvotes as of this article
Others did support Dan’s idea to do nothing about it—no longer working there, so not your problem. Since they have already invested more than they should have of themselves, and were treated like dirt, then it’s the only sensible response.
Among the many suggestions on how to “properly react” there were also those who shared their own experiences and solutions
There were also those who went with a dash of malicious compliance, saying it wasn’t their job to store passwords, let alone keep them somewhere around at home or something. Or it was no longer their job and hence none of their business to know passwords.
A lot of people joined in on the conversation, commiserating and venting over 2,700 comments for the now-viral post
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Yet others started commiserating by sharing experiences, and the solutions they resorted to after being contacted by an ex employer. Whatever the case may be, the post received quite a lot of attention—nearly 32,000 upvotes with a handful of Reddit awards.
You can check the post in context here, or take a look at other AntiWork articles we’ve covered here. But before you run off, tell us your stories, or thoughts, or both in the comment section below!
I was on holiday in Cornwall (about 200 miles from home) when my rather dim manager rang and asked if I could open up the offices as a key holder was ill, (there were four of us). I reminded her I was in Cornwall to which there was a silence, before she said, would it take me long to get there! I said yes, it would be after the second week of my holiday.
You resigned and they went " no, you need to come to work or get fired "??? That's must have been a really scary ultimatum....
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My company installed modern door handles (in top managers offices), which were to open only with magnetic card. I was the only one who knew how to use application and magnetic card coder. Since then a lot of time passed, I moved positions twice, trained my replacements, and left company eventually. So all in all about 3 years after installation I'm getting a call "we do not know how to handle these doors". I just simply smiled and said "uuughhh... that's really been a while, I don't remember, just call company that installed those" (doh!) what they expected to explain them entire re-programming system? (which they would not understand by phone) Or come in and show them 😂 lol
Anyone who doesn't understand building access software shouldn't be given that kind of job. It never ceases to surprise me how offices can talk so much about security and safety and simultaneously put such little effort into their security. Security guards are some of the lowest paid and highest turn around in personnel and yet are needed to perform some of the most vital actions in case of an emergency, or even for daily operations (such as making the doors work). It is so common that you go to the front desk and they have some idiot who knows how to surf the web but has zero comprehension of using any professional computer programs for an actual job.
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My friend left a company that did reprographics and in every picture he hid a small image that looked like a line drawing of an Aztec head in line art. One day, about 3 years, after being fired for someone cheaper, the company he worked for had his old company bid on the graphics for their advertising campaigns and were using one of his pieces. Now, he kept the originals with the 'last edited' date as part of the file name, and he showed his bosses the file and then pointed at the little, barely noticeable and often overlooked, Aztec head and asked if they wanted to know all about it. They said yes, and he pulled up his special little template from a separate file that he would copy and paste from. It was an Aztec head which when zoomed in would show itself to be made of letters which, when read from the bottom right corner of the image in a clockwise spiral going inwards, 'Property of [friend's name] This c*nt nicked my work' They didn't get the contract and had to delete his art work
Isn't anything you create or prepare on company time (or even while you are an employee) the intellectual property of your employer? Pretty sure all industries work this way-so they couldn't "steal" work he created on their dime..
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my former boss tried this on me. First he gave me notice, then 3 weeks later he called and asked for something I should show him. I already had a new job and said I couldn't come in until 6pm. He usually finishes work at 4 pm. He "generously" agreed to wait. He's probably still waiting, I don't know. I blocked his number and his emails go straight to Nirvana.
My boyfriend and I worked at the same company. I got laid off, went home. The next week, the owners wanted me to teach my boyfriend how to do my job because no one else knew how to do it, and then it would be an extra job my boyfriend had to do for no pay. Haha, nope!!!
I randomly get calls from customers I had when I worked sales for a liquor company over 15 years ago. Most of the calls are fine but there was one guy who wouldn't listen to me. He wanted me to get him to the right person or for me to just "handle it". I blocked his number. Handled.
I think there's a different approach to take depending on whether the ex-employee left voluntarily, or involuntarily. Voluntarily, they should have prepared some handover notes - it's not the company's fault they chose to leave (I'm assuming it's not a rage quit and all players are otherwise reasonable people). If they were fired or laid off or let go in any way that was not through the employee's choice? Screw the company and the horse they rode in on (again, this is assuming the employee isn't at fault for some gross negligence or criminal event that would lead to reasonable termination). Of course, the big difference here is that I work in a country with semi-decent employee protections, so my expectations that adults are treated like adults is probably tinted a little.
I left a job where they were convinced they were going to get me to stay, and I left anyway so I never really got to train the guy who was taking my place. Being the guy that I am I told him if he needed any help on how to do things he could call me. He did call me a few times, and I didn't mind helping him because it wasn't his fault he didn't get trained. He also kept me filled me in on all the juicy details of how things were turning to crap right after I left.
Left ex job an was texted about how to run a specialty job. Said consulting fee was $200 an hour and if they wanted me to come by and do it I would personally at $250 an hour. The texted back they figured it out. Lol
Lol I had a mid management position i was younger then but they kept removing my resources and giving me more work and my new boss refused to learn ANYTHING leaving me to do most of his job aswell well they fired me for underproductivity and not reaching my goals because I was too busy running other departments to 100% focus on my own. Well only the boss can approve adding or removing alarm code holders and lo and behold he never listened to me when I tried to tell him policies and rules so for 5yrs I cost that company 10s of thousands by telling sure I'll be right there to disable the alarm as I lived closest took 5yrs for them to remove me from the list makes me smile thinking about it.
after a lot of back and forth i eventually left a company i had been employed with for 10 years. Essentially I hated my boss, and how the company had changed over time. However there were a LOT of things that I was the only person who knew how to do. Like how to install firmwear on older systems, how to repair older systems. Even things like the location of older components that were no longer available as the chip manufacturer discontinued the chip.... but i had a secret stash i kept and jealously guarded so i could repair older systems. When i resigned i gave them the full treatment, nearly a month of warning so i could train a replacement and prepare documentation on how to do my job. But the CEO decided to be a d**k and treat me like garbage. I wonder how long it took them to realize my documentation was basically a nice story filled with bad advice and even featured steps guaranteed to ruin the devices they were implemented on.
When ex employers do this demand to be treated like a professional by offering to come in as a private contractor. Charge them fair market value for a contractor with a 2 hour minimum.
I retired last year after over 40 years with the same company. I was doing project management for s specific atea. I spent the last month wrapping up projects and creating/updating SOPs and detailed directions for all of my jobs. (There were many since I was the bosses go to person and had contacts due toy longevity.) The boss asked if I'd be ok if someone called me the first few weeks with questions since they still hadn't replaced me. I agreed...however, I was getting called several times a week with insignificant questions that were explained in all my documentation. The answer took minutes, the phone call another 2 hours listening to the complaints. This weaned down to about once a week, but I finally stopped answering calls and would send a text a week later with a short answer. Finally, after months, the calls stopped. The only reason that I took them for so long was that I left on good terms, had known the caller for 20 years and wanted to help....she was just very lazy
I live in the UK but worked for a US Fortune 500 Company. After 25 years in 13 different roles they let me go because my boss wanted me to live in NYC; never mind my children & grandchildren. I offered to train my replacement, but they were too slow and my 12 week notice period ran out before the new guy arrived from Boston. 3 people offered me Contract work as continuity, but the boss who let me go would 't hear of it. 12 months later I hear the 5 people closest to me higher in the pecking order had all been let go. I retired at age 57 with over £175,000 ($230,000) in compensation to last me 3 years until my (£20,000 / $26,000) Company Pension kicked in - took my wife to Hawaii on holiday (long way from UK).
If and when I will quit my job, I will definitely change my number.
Or just block the co-workers that you didn't like.
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For years after working at a startup I would receive calls on my personal phone from wholesalers looking for late payments to be remitted. Apparently the company didn't think they had to pay the outstanding bills for my wholesale accounts after I was laid off for no reason. I really hope they were charged absurd late remittance fees.
I was assigned to a federal agency by a temp company. I had many clerical duties, one of which included maintaining computer manuscripts of interactions between supervisor and one employee. Uncomfortable, because supervisor was basically making a secret file to use to fire the employee at a future date. After a few months the supervisor offered me a permanent position. I held off giving an answer for as long as I could. I finally told him I had accepted an offer with a different agency (as an agent, not admin.) Thought all was good. Went on my 2 week military reserve training, came back to find that supervisor had terminated my contract. Whisky-Tango-Foxtrot, Over?!! For a week supervisor kept calling to see if the file was still secret (even after I told him to stop calling!) Finally told him his secret was safe, then called the employee to let him know about the secret file & how to access on the computer.
I was told that I was going to be put in a new job, at a lower hourly rate. I was also told that a total idiot I worked with was going to be taking over my responsibilities, and would I please train her on my job responsibilities, especially teaching her Excel? I agreed. In the meanwhile, I applied for other positions, outside the company. The woman I was to train was SO stupid, which I knew. She knew nothing about computers. I sat with her, and showed her what to do at a rate I was well aware she could not follow. I got a better offer almost immediately - gave my 2 weeks notice. Continued to train her, which she could not follow. When I left, she was totally incompetent to take over my role. I felt bad for her, at first, but then found out she was sleeping with the boss.. My conscience was clear after that! I don’t believe the company was in business a year later, and ANOTHER company that the investors/boss owned also failed shortly after. Men, be carful about your priorities!
At 24 yrs old, I worked in Los Angeles in a corporate section of a bank in the early 90s. I tracked & paid the bonuses for all the employees who brought in new financial portfolios for the bank to manage. Hours were incredibly long & I was threatened with my job anytime I wanted to use my PTO. I even had to work holidays to keep up. Another dept wanted to hire me at a higher salary, so I asked my current dept if they would match the offer (a $2K/yr increase). They refused & treated me like I was some entitled brat who should know better than to ask for more. I accepted the new dept's offer and left my old position. I created a complete manual (including screen shots) of my work & how to run the tracking system well as frequency of reports and all keystrokes & passwords to perform my old job. I left nothing out. It ended up taking 3 full-time employees to do the same job I had been doing by myself, & they still got yelled at for not being able to keep up or do the work as well as I had.
This happened to me once. I was called one day to hand over all the logins and files that I had been working on. I asked if there was something that I could help them with. They replied with we need this for the owners and its for a side project. The next week I was let go. I looked a year later and all the work I did was gone. The project the new person took over failed and now they are spending more money. Haha goodluck!
"Worked" FH off and on. Was at home when I was called to be laid off. Fine. I had the company phone and laptop. Kept both until I got severance pay and replaced the laptop. Already had a personal phone. Both company phone and laptop were wiped before I took them back. Got asked what took me so long and told them I was out of town.
The commenter who says that his ex-employer steals the work he's doing for new employers resulting in the new employers firing him? That sounds less like a thing that's happening and more like, um...a paranoid delusion. How in the f**k would an employer from 5 years earlier steal the work being done for the new company, much less steal it in some manner that both the new employer doesn't notice *AND* which results in the new employer blaming the employee in some way and firing him? And have this happen with *MULTIPLE* companies? No way that's a thing.
I have a contracting firm that spread a story about me being lazy and a liar to other recruiters in the area. What actually happened was I got my initial recruiter's boyfriend or husband fired from the company because he offered me money for sex in the elevator. As soon as I stepped off the elevator in the building's reception area, I informed security, who was able to pull the security video and audio. The police report I have a copy of got forwarded to a lot of new recruiters over the next couple of years, but during that time, it was impossible for me to get a good job in my field because of her lies. I wish I could say that that stuff rarely happens, but it does. Far more than people realize. In niche industries where you have a small, highly trained community, gossip spreads and people can weaponize that gossip to deny others employment. The only reason I didn't end up filing a lawsuit is because I ended up getting my original recruiter fired as well. She wasn't very liked either.
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I worked for a company that was laying off people too, only they had me bring the employees to them to lay-off (about 20 or so people) then bring them to gather their personal items with security and walk them out. I knew all of them, they thought that I had something to do with it, I didn't. The final person to get layed off that day was me. I found this just a bit disturbing, used me right up to the end! All of the layed off employees had not so nice things then say to me, I can't blame them. It was just so tacky on the company's part.
After 38 in the same district my wife retired as a school principal. Her staff and parents loved her but when she retired she didn’t receive so much as a handshake or thank you from the Superintendent or School Board. Her replacement was a complete disaster and soon enough she saw the caller ID on her phone that showed the Superintendent was calling her. She answered but instead of saying hello she answered “No, I’m not coming back”. She was joking but after a long pause he begged her to come back at her old pay rate. She told him that since they no longer had to pay for her health insurance or into her pension she would consider coming back with a 50% pay raise. He paid. She could have easily screened out her grossly unqualified replacement but they didn’t want her advice during the hiring process and the replacement turned down her offer to train her.
"...buy things we kinda need and kinda don’t need, so it’s what it’s." Someone clearly doesn't know English. The saying is, "it is what it is." No poor grammar involved.
* I suspect they're not your enemy * Assist at "your" earliest convenience * Never burn a bridge * Always take the high road * "Life" is a good day .. stay positive
Sometimes you can only see your future by the light of your burning bridges
Load More Replies... I was on holiday in Cornwall (about 200 miles from home) when my rather dim manager rang and asked if I could open up the offices as a key holder was ill, (there were four of us). I reminded her I was in Cornwall to which there was a silence, before she said, would it take me long to get there! I said yes, it would be after the second week of my holiday.
You resigned and they went " no, you need to come to work or get fired "??? That's must have been a really scary ultimatum....
Load More Replies... My company installed modern door handles (in top managers offices), which were to open only with magnetic card. I was the only one who knew how to use application and magnetic card coder. Since then a lot of time passed, I moved positions twice, trained my replacements, and left company eventually. So all in all about 3 years after installation I'm getting a call "we do not know how to handle these doors". I just simply smiled and said "uuughhh... that's really been a while, I don't remember, just call company that installed those" (doh!) what they expected to explain them entire re-programming system? (which they would not understand by phone) Or come in and show them 😂 lol
Anyone who doesn't understand building access software shouldn't be given that kind of job. It never ceases to surprise me how offices can talk so much about security and safety and simultaneously put such little effort into their security. Security guards are some of the lowest paid and highest turn around in personnel and yet are needed to perform some of the most vital actions in case of an emergency, or even for daily operations (such as making the doors work). It is so common that you go to the front desk and they have some idiot who knows how to surf the web but has zero comprehension of using any professional computer programs for an actual job.
Load More Replies... My friend left a company that did reprographics and in every picture he hid a small image that looked like a line drawing of an Aztec head in line art. One day, about 3 years, after being fired for someone cheaper, the company he worked for had his old company bid on the graphics for their advertising campaigns and were using one of his pieces. Now, he kept the originals with the 'last edited' date as part of the file name, and he showed his bosses the file and then pointed at the little, barely noticeable and often overlooked, Aztec head and asked if they wanted to know all about it. They said yes, and he pulled up his special little template from a separate file that he would copy and paste from. It was an Aztec head which when zoomed in would show itself to be made of letters which, when read from the bottom right corner of the image in a clockwise spiral going inwards, 'Property of [friend's name] This c*nt nicked my work' They didn't get the contract and had to delete his art work
Isn't anything you create or prepare on company time (or even while you are an employee) the intellectual property of your employer? Pretty sure all industries work this way-so they couldn't "steal" work he created on their dime..
Load More Replies... my former boss tried this on me. First he gave me notice, then 3 weeks later he called and asked for something I should show him. I already had a new job and said I couldn't come in until 6pm. He usually finishes work at 4 pm. He "generously" agreed to wait. He's probably still waiting, I don't know. I blocked his number and his emails go straight to Nirvana.
My boyfriend and I worked at the same company. I got laid off, went home. The next week, the owners wanted me to teach my boyfriend how to do my job because no one else knew how to do it, and then it would be an extra job my boyfriend had to do for no pay. Haha, nope!!!
I randomly get calls from customers I had when I worked sales for a liquor company over 15 years ago. Most of the calls are fine but there was one guy who wouldn't listen to me. He wanted me to get him to the right person or for me to just "handle it". I blocked his number. Handled.
I think there's a different approach to take depending on whether the ex-employee left voluntarily, or involuntarily. Voluntarily, they should have prepared some handover notes - it's not the company's fault they chose to leave (I'm assuming it's not a rage quit and all players are otherwise reasonable people). If they were fired or laid off or let go in any way that was not through the employee's choice? Screw the company and the horse they rode in on (again, this is assuming the employee isn't at fault for some gross negligence or criminal event that would lead to reasonable termination). Of course, the big difference here is that I work in a country with semi-decent employee protections, so my expectations that adults are treated like adults is probably tinted a little.
I left a job where they were convinced they were going to get me to stay, and I left anyway so I never really got to train the guy who was taking my place. Being the guy that I am I told him if he needed any help on how to do things he could call me. He did call me a few times, and I didn't mind helping him because it wasn't his fault he didn't get trained. He also kept me filled me in on all the juicy details of how things were turning to crap right after I left.
Left ex job an was texted about how to run a specialty job. Said consulting fee was $200 an hour and if they wanted me to come by and do it I would personally at $250 an hour. The texted back they figured it out. Lol
Lol I had a mid management position i was younger then but they kept removing my resources and giving me more work and my new boss refused to learn ANYTHING leaving me to do most of his job aswell well they fired me for underproductivity and not reaching my goals because I was too busy running other departments to 100% focus on my own. Well only the boss can approve adding or removing alarm code holders and lo and behold he never listened to me when I tried to tell him policies and rules so for 5yrs I cost that company 10s of thousands by telling sure I'll be right there to disable the alarm as I lived closest took 5yrs for them to remove me from the list makes me smile thinking about it.
after a lot of back and forth i eventually left a company i had been employed with for 10 years. Essentially I hated my boss, and how the company had changed over time. However there were a LOT of things that I was the only person who knew how to do. Like how to install firmwear on older systems, how to repair older systems. Even things like the location of older components that were no longer available as the chip manufacturer discontinued the chip.... but i had a secret stash i kept and jealously guarded so i could repair older systems. When i resigned i gave them the full treatment, nearly a month of warning so i could train a replacement and prepare documentation on how to do my job. But the CEO decided to be a d**k and treat me like garbage. I wonder how long it took them to realize my documentation was basically a nice story filled with bad advice and even featured steps guaranteed to ruin the devices they were implemented on.
When ex employers do this demand to be treated like a professional by offering to come in as a private contractor. Charge them fair market value for a contractor with a 2 hour minimum.
I retired last year after over 40 years with the same company. I was doing project management for s specific atea. I spent the last month wrapping up projects and creating/updating SOPs and detailed directions for all of my jobs. (There were many since I was the bosses go to person and had contacts due toy longevity.) The boss asked if I'd be ok if someone called me the first few weeks with questions since they still hadn't replaced me. I agreed...however, I was getting called several times a week with insignificant questions that were explained in all my documentation. The answer took minutes, the phone call another 2 hours listening to the complaints. This weaned down to about once a week, but I finally stopped answering calls and would send a text a week later with a short answer. Finally, after months, the calls stopped. The only reason that I took them for so long was that I left on good terms, had known the caller for 20 years and wanted to help....she was just very lazy
I live in the UK but worked for a US Fortune 500 Company. After 25 years in 13 different roles they let me go because my boss wanted me to live in NYC; never mind my children & grandchildren. I offered to train my replacement, but they were too slow and my 12 week notice period ran out before the new guy arrived from Boston. 3 people offered me Contract work as continuity, but the boss who let me go would 't hear of it. 12 months later I hear the 5 people closest to me higher in the pecking order had all been let go. I retired at age 57 with over £175,000 ($230,000) in compensation to last me 3 years until my (£20,000 / $26,000) Company Pension kicked in - took my wife to Hawaii on holiday (long way from UK).
If and when I will quit my job, I will definitely change my number.
Or just block the co-workers that you didn't like.
Load More Replies... For years after working at a startup I would receive calls on my personal phone from wholesalers looking for late payments to be remitted. Apparently the company didn't think they had to pay the outstanding bills for my wholesale accounts after I was laid off for no reason. I really hope they were charged absurd late remittance fees.
I was assigned to a federal agency by a temp company. I had many clerical duties, one of which included maintaining computer manuscripts of interactions between supervisor and one employee. Uncomfortable, because supervisor was basically making a secret file to use to fire the employee at a future date. After a few months the supervisor offered me a permanent position. I held off giving an answer for as long as I could. I finally told him I had accepted an offer with a different agency (as an agent, not admin.) Thought all was good. Went on my 2 week military reserve training, came back to find that supervisor had terminated my contract. Whisky-Tango-Foxtrot, Over?!! For a week supervisor kept calling to see if the file was still secret (even after I told him to stop calling!) Finally told him his secret was safe, then called the employee to let him know about the secret file & how to access on the computer.
I was told that I was going to be put in a new job, at a lower hourly rate. I was also told that a total idiot I worked with was going to be taking over my responsibilities, and would I please train her on my job responsibilities, especially teaching her Excel? I agreed. In the meanwhile, I applied for other positions, outside the company. The woman I was to train was SO stupid, which I knew. She knew nothing about computers. I sat with her, and showed her what to do at a rate I was well aware she could not follow. I got a better offer almost immediately - gave my 2 weeks notice. Continued to train her, which she could not follow. When I left, she was totally incompetent to take over my role. I felt bad for her, at first, but then found out she was sleeping with the boss.. My conscience was clear after that! I don’t believe the company was in business a year later, and ANOTHER company that the investors/boss owned also failed shortly after. Men, be carful about your priorities!
At 24 yrs old, I worked in Los Angeles in a corporate section of a bank in the early 90s. I tracked & paid the bonuses for all the employees who brought in new financial portfolios for the bank to manage. Hours were incredibly long & I was threatened with my job anytime I wanted to use my PTO. I even had to work holidays to keep up. Another dept wanted to hire me at a higher salary, so I asked my current dept if they would match the offer (a $2K/yr increase). They refused & treated me like I was some entitled brat who should know better than to ask for more. I accepted the new dept's offer and left my old position. I created a complete manual (including screen shots) of my work & how to run the tracking system well as frequency of reports and all keystrokes & passwords to perform my old job. I left nothing out. It ended up taking 3 full-time employees to do the same job I had been doing by myself, & they still got yelled at for not being able to keep up or do the work as well as I had.
This happened to me once. I was called one day to hand over all the logins and files that I had been working on. I asked if there was something that I could help them with. They replied with we need this for the owners and its for a side project. The next week I was let go. I looked a year later and all the work I did was gone. The project the new person took over failed and now they are spending more money. Haha goodluck!
"Worked" FH off and on. Was at home when I was called to be laid off. Fine. I had the company phone and laptop. Kept both until I got severance pay and replaced the laptop. Already had a personal phone. Both company phone and laptop were wiped before I took them back. Got asked what took me so long and told them I was out of town.
The commenter who says that his ex-employer steals the work he's doing for new employers resulting in the new employers firing him? That sounds less like a thing that's happening and more like, um...a paranoid delusion. How in the f**k would an employer from 5 years earlier steal the work being done for the new company, much less steal it in some manner that both the new employer doesn't notice *AND* which results in the new employer blaming the employee in some way and firing him? And have this happen with *MULTIPLE* companies? No way that's a thing.
I have a contracting firm that spread a story about me being lazy and a liar to other recruiters in the area. What actually happened was I got my initial recruiter's boyfriend or husband fired from the company because he offered me money for sex in the elevator. As soon as I stepped off the elevator in the building's reception area, I informed security, who was able to pull the security video and audio. The police report I have a copy of got forwarded to a lot of new recruiters over the next couple of years, but during that time, it was impossible for me to get a good job in my field because of her lies. I wish I could say that that stuff rarely happens, but it does. Far more than people realize. In niche industries where you have a small, highly trained community, gossip spreads and people can weaponize that gossip to deny others employment. The only reason I didn't end up filing a lawsuit is because I ended up getting my original recruiter fired as well. She wasn't very liked either.
Load More Replies... I worked for a company that was laying off people too, only they had me bring the employees to them to lay-off (about 20 or so people) then bring them to gather their personal items with security and walk them out. I knew all of them, they thought that I had something to do with it, I didn't. The final person to get layed off that day was me. I found this just a bit disturbing, used me right up to the end! All of the layed off employees had not so nice things then say to me, I can't blame them. It was just so tacky on the company's part.
After 38 in the same district my wife retired as a school principal. Her staff and parents loved her but when she retired she didn’t receive so much as a handshake or thank you from the Superintendent or School Board. Her replacement was a complete disaster and soon enough she saw the caller ID on her phone that showed the Superintendent was calling her. She answered but instead of saying hello she answered “No, I’m not coming back”. She was joking but after a long pause he begged her to come back at her old pay rate. She told him that since they no longer had to pay for her health insurance or into her pension she would consider coming back with a 50% pay raise. He paid. She could have easily screened out her grossly unqualified replacement but they didn’t want her advice during the hiring process and the replacement turned down her offer to train her.
"...buy things we kinda need and kinda don’t need, so it’s what it’s." Someone clearly doesn't know English. The saying is, "it is what it is." No poor grammar involved.
* I suspect they're not your enemy * Assist at "your" earliest convenience * Never burn a bridge * Always take the high road * "Life" is a good day .. stay positive
Sometimes you can only see your future by the light of your burning bridges
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