'[Karen] got fired for her recklessness': Entitled employee refuses to follow password guidelines, company's emails get hacked, she pays the price

It's not easy for the Karens of the world to follow rules. They tend to operate according to their own flawed and delusional sense of reality and ethics. So when this Karen employee was told to follow a specific set of rules when setting up her new work email and she didn't like the fact that she couldn't name her password after her generic dog's name, she decided to do away with the rules entirely and do what she wanted instead.

Unfortunately for her, she would learn the consequences of those actions. Unfortunately for the company, their entire inbox of confidential information would be put at risk. That's because it did not take long for Karen's emails to be hacked. She tried to place blame on anyone else that she could, especially the IT worker who tried to walk her through the problem. He shared his side of the story via this thread on Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit.

Keep scrolling below for the fallout and for the subsequent update about what this Karen is up to now. For more stories like this, check out this post about a manager who disrespected a student worker's hours.

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