'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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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 28, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

Wanna know how long you can make a password? Go ahead, guess. Apparently, in the various Google applications, you can make a password that's up to 100 characters long! Just imagine how long it would take to type out such an abomination of a password… Sentences like this one right here are exactly 100 characters long, typing that password is a chore! Now that you have an appreciation for the sinister art of making a super crazy long password, you can appreciate this now-deleted user's post to r/MaliciousCompliance. 

They shared that as a manager at a retail store, they found out that they were about to get fired. Although they don't share why they were about to get the boot, they weren't about to make it easy on their bosses or coworkers. You aren't supposed to burn your bridges, but this person doesn't seem too concerned about that. 

Check out this story of the dude who created the world's worst passwords. Then, check out another story of very petty revenge from a guy who kept getting calls from a lawyer's office, only for the lawyer to tell them they weren't going to change that phone number any time soon. 

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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
    via u/[deleted]
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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
    via u/[deleted]
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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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    flavius29663. why not |||IIIIII|||||||||IIII||||||| |||||IIIIII||||||||||IIII|||| II|||||||IIIIII|||||||IIII|| II||||||||IIIIII in arial نے
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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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