'You're fired... now give us all the passwords': Retail manager realizes they're going to be fired, decides to mess with company passwords

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    You're fired....now give us all the passwords S I already posted this story to r/pettyrevenge and someone said I should post it here.... To cut a long story short, I got fired from a managerial position in retail because I
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    was technically the highest ranked person on duty when a minor security breach occured, despite the person who carried out the breach fully confessing, absolving me of blame and I was doing admin stuff at the time.
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    Before my disciplinary I knew I was getting fired. I had put everything the company did on Google Drive and I also had the social media passwords etc. So just before the disciplinary hearing I used Lastpass to change the passwords to as long as
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    possible (Google allows 100 characters) and made them random letters, numbers, symbols with interspersed capitals. In my disciplinary I was told I was being fired with 4 week's pay as is standard as long as I followed procedure, including handing over the passwords. So I did.
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    I copied the passwords into a Google Doc on my phone, changed the font to lobster bold italic, and took screenshots of them (so they couldn't copy and paste), then emailed them to the owners.
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    Not all of them were 100 characters, but I had to give the passwords for PayPal, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. They didn't ask me for the WiFi password as that was still set to the same as when I started, but I did change it along with the router password, and inside the shop is a 4g blackspot.
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    Edit: to those asking if they could have just reset the passwords....the Google password was linked to what I think was the owner's old number. The social media accounts were recoverable via the a Google email. And they have since updated their social media about 10 days. after this happened so they must have got it eventually.
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    To those asking if I was an who deserves to get fired....well I never said I wasn't. But I didn't want to get onto the details of why the owners and I hated each other. But in my eyes, I was in the right, and in theirs they were.
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    Joped My favorite part of this was the use of lobster bold italic font. I had to look up to see how truly ridiculously evil it is. Hilarious name for a font as well :P
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    KrashKrunal . What did they say when you gave them the passwords? You had any issues with them since (ie trying to withhold your final pay) etc...?
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    stoneberry Nah, probably they just got some poor intern soul to type them.
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    im-from-canada-eh As a software developer I can say I approve of what you did. The format and length of the passwords are sufficient for password security. And you
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    should never store/transmit passwords in pain text... so he encrypted them before transmitting.
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    Ajreil I would have used Wingdings. They'd need to make a cypher and decode it by hand.
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    → [deleted] I hope you realize you made life for people who had zero to do with your firing, all the while kind of making me think you were fired for a very good reason.
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    Obadijah Yeah, maybe I'm just in the wrong subreddit, but this just makes me assume the firing was likely justified.
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    LawnShipper As a Security Awareness professional...I not only approve of, but heartily endorse your actions.

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