'How should I respond': Worker contacted by employer 20 years after they were fired seeking important files

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    Font - Posted by u/squazher 7 hours ago I got fired. My ex-boss is now asking for the whereabouts of important files. How should I respond? Job offers A few years ago, I got a call from a company I had not worked at for 20 years. They wanted me to tell them the location of a source code file for a glue program I wrote to connect the
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    Font - COBAL database on the Dell Poweredge 4100 to the Fortran utility running on a whitebox, to the DBSMG or whatever it was on the PDP-11. They wanted me to tell them what floppydisk it was on. Umm, how the ho do you think I will remember what floppy its on 20 years later? Do i have to?
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    Font - Winter_Ad_5961. 4 hr. ago Lol no. You got fired. 253 Reply Share squazher OP. 4 hr. ago Well, if they pay for my services I'm thinking. ↑ 97 Reply Share ●●
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    Font - SevereDependent 4 hr. ago "Here are my updated rates." "Consulting $200/hr Floppy Retrieval - 8-in $400/hr Floppy Retrieval - 5 1/4-in $450/hr Floppy Retrieval - 3 1/2-in $479/hr Zip Disk Retrieval $412.50/hr" 170 Reply Share
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    Font - M albatroopa 3 hr. ago You forgot the fee to cover the storage of that knowledge for 20 years. 107 Denace86 2 hr. ago Reply Share ● 27 Don't forget the service charge for "accessing memories more than 5 years old" Reply Share ●●
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    Font - PLACE monsooninyoursky - 5 hr. ago Tell them you are happy to work as a 1099 contractor for this project and bill them three times what they paid you whether you can find the floppy or not. 112 Reply Share 31 tamhenk 3 hr. ago 3x? It's been 20 years. 30x payment, half upfront or they can fox off. OP has literally nothing to lose but ex boss seemingly has loads to lose. ... Reply Share
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    Font - squazher OP 5 hr. ago Exactly! You read my mind! Reply Share 36 twotoebobo 5 hr. ago Three times adjusted for inflation. 17 Reply Share
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    Font - PrimalSeptimus · 5 hr. ago 20 years ago? I can't even find things for my current job sometimes. 23 Reply Share Dco777 4 hr. ago I end up losing my glasses I set down 20 minutes ago. I spend 1/2 to two hours on it looking. Twenty years ago? I know that was 2003. That using math, other than that, I remember nothing. 4 Reply Share
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    Font - Fennario85 5 hr. ago ● I used to work for a guy in his political office. He fired me and two weeks later his replacement asked if I could give me a rundown on what everything I filed away was told him I'd schedule a meeting and still haven't got back to him 24 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - itssusiesnowflake 4 hr. ago 20 years is a long time if I was fired even 20 mins ago, I won't "remember" any of the whereabouts of anything important ermay 8 Reply Share jestermax22 2 hr. ago I mean, if you got fired today? You wouldn't "remember" anything for them tomorrow. Reply Share 2
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    Font - skallywag126.5 hr. ago Laugh at them 9 Reply Share squazher OP 5 hr. ago I did. 9 ●●● Reply Share
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    Font - z-eldapin 4 hr. ago This is happening now? Or this happened a few years ago? Reply Share 5 ...
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    Font - Many_Supermarket850 5 hr. ago Space dollars 1099 baby lessgo Reply Share 3
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    Font - MR_60UIJA6BOARD6 5 hr. ago Say "Good luck" 4 3 Reply Share

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