'[Four] years after they fired me!' Employer threatens to sue worker for their passwords years after firing them

It's amazing the lengths that people will go to place blame on anything but themselves, especially when that person is an old employer seeking to blame you for their own mistakes. It's no secret that, after you leave a toxic workplace, everything will be blamed on you—but this company has taken it to another level.

This worker, Redditor u/NimboStratusSuck shared their story to Reddit's popular r/antiwork subreddit, claiming to have been contacted by a previous employer who was seeking to get crucial passwords from the worker four years after they were fired. The worker explains their role as a networking engineer and how they had possession of essential administrative passwords for the company's routers—which were also stored in an electronic vault according to company procedure. When they were fired, they took their institutional knowledge with them, which apparently included basic company procedures. No one thought to rescue the passwords from the vault before it was taken offline, leaving the organization powerless and passwordless when they were locked out of their own system. The company's last-ditch solution was to call u/NimboStratusSuck and threaten them with an absurd lawsuit.

Keep reading to see some screenshots of the original thread and the discussion it inspired on Reddit. For more, check out this boss who tried to trick their worker into resigning to avoid paying them unemployment.