'Karen had deleted everything': Boomer Karen tries to screw over coworker after getting laid off, coworker gets revenge

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    Font - Boomer doesn't understand tech This happened about 10 years ago. There was a Karen that had been with the company for nearly 15 years. Her title was "Project Manager", but she was really more of an office admin and various internal projects would get pushed to her. These were things to help improve how the office worked, but nothing critical.
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    Font - One of these projects was actually deemed to be important and it was re-assigned to me. She hated this and stonewalled me all the time. It caused the project to be delayed, and I was getting from some of the executives because of this. When I commented that it was difficult to get information from Karen, she became super-sweet and said she was bending over backwards to help me, I didn't understand the project, etc. I powered through anyway.
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    Font - But, then there was a round of layoffs and she was one of them. Due to her time with the company, she received a 3-month severance and extended benefits. It was weird, but the company essentially cut monthly severance checks instead of paying them out all at once. But, she also had to sign an NDA and non-disparagement agreement on the exit, as well as confirm that she had handed over all company materials and files.
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    Font - I went to go grab some files related to the project and everything was gone. Karen had deleted everything. This was before using things like Teams, Google Drive, etc. Everything was on a shared network drive, so it wasn't super easy to get the back up.
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    Font - But Boomer Karen was the type that used her work email for all her personal accounts, including LinkedIn. It was also company policy that the emails of departed employees would be forwarded to their department heads for a few months.
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    Font - Using this knowledge, I went to LinkedIn and sent a message. "Hi Karen - I heard about your departure. I hope you can use the time to take the vacation you talked about. I went to grab some of the files but noticed they were missing. Do you have back ups you could share?"
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    Font - When she responded, it also went to her old email, and thus to the department head. "Don't pretend to be nice. I wouldn't be surprised if you helped me get fired. Good luck finding any of those files. I DELETED EVERYTHING. Screw you."
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    Font - Well, when that got forwarded to HR that she had put in writing that she had deleted everything it was determined that this violated the severance agreement. All severance checks were immediately stopped. Oh, so sorry Boomer.
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    Font - juicyorange23. 4 days ago I still don't understand why people use their work email for anything personal. So stupid. Well done! 2.0k Reply Share
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    Font - grayeggandham . 4 days ago Or why anyone would put something like that down in writing at all, anywhere. 676 Reply Share
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    Plant - SublimeMudTime. 4 days ago Nice and really this better than petty.... 870 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - Z-man1973 Nothing like a heartwarming story to begin the weekend 298 . 4 days ago Reply Share
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    Font - txaaron 4 days ago IT person here. Most everyone doesn't understand tech. Age doesn't matter. I would say the younger generations are some of the worst. If it's not an iphone, they don't care or understand. ↑ 197 Reply Share
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    Font - Renbarre 4 days ago Frankly, the fact that she is a Boomer has nothing to do with it. We had a brand shiny new intern who was finishing his 2 years of Business school with an internship. He decided we weren't good enough for him and found another internship. He didn't bother cleaning out his professional email box. That's how we found he was chatting with a school mate, insulting us all, giving our new pricing plans with his criticism (we were all morons), and making an idiot of himself.
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    Font - 3 Heathens_Mom. 4 days ago People like your Karen are the reason some companies lock employees to be laid off out of everything at least the evening before. Also while that person may have been a boomer her attitude and the action she took when laid off is shared by others of any age. Sometimes a layoff is very personal. Most of the time IMO it is someone several levels up who likely has no clue what the people several levels under them do so they just pick folks. This is usually proven o
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    Font - Raisontolive 4 days ago As a Boomer, I can't count how many Gen Z's and Millennials who feel that surge of power when hitting 'reply to all'.
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    Font - ShowMeTheTrees 4 days ago Can't you call her out for being a Karen without using the stereotype of "Boomer"? Many of us starting using technology as soon as it came out and have kept up with it, and are quite sharp with it. It's awful to assume that everyone a certain age is stupid or nasty or both. I mean, being a Karen involves the choice to be nasty or not. But people cannot control their age. Age does not equal personality traits.

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