Company forced to pay $6000 to fix tech issue after boss demands sole IT employee deletes his account on his last day at the job: ‘You asked me to do this’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Mar 11, 2025 7:00 AM EDT

When working at small companies, one often finds oneself taking on responsibilities that have nothing to do with one's job title. And that often happens to those who consider themselves 'tech savvy'.

For some unknown reason, small companies tend to overlook the tech side of running the company, so they fail to hire an employee to run that side. Without an IT worker, there is always at least one somewhat technological employee at the company who finds themselves as the designated IT of the company, even if it has nothing to do with what they were hired to do.

The problem is, well, one of the many problems with this setup, is that no one is actually in charge or responsible for what is going on when it comes to the technological operation of the company. And then when something inevitably goes wrong, who will be there to take accountability and fix it? Because it sure should not be the one employee who never even signed up for the job.

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  • The employee in the story down below found himself as the designated IT guy for his company. He was even made a ‘super admin’ to all the company's stores' registers.

    However, his terrible boss eventually made him quit his job, and on his last day he was demanded to delete his account, the same one that was the ‘super admin'.

    Safe to say, deleting it was not the right call.

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    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

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    "You want me to delete my own account in front of you? Ok done."

    A bit of background first. Fifteen years ago, I worked at a gas station as an opener. Because I was young and somewhat tech savvy, I was also the de facto "IT" for the 3
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    stores near me, and had been heavily involved in setting up. a new point of sale (POS) system for their two most successful stores when they were swapped from one gas brand to another. The
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    company had made me the super admin on all registers just for ease of transition. Remember this later. The owner's wife had been awful to me for the 2 years
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    that I worked there. I got bumped to opener by her husband and she hated have a man be an opener. Historically every single opener was picked by her and
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    was a woman, but her husband came and fired the previous opener for theft while the two of us swapping shifts, so I got a field promotion of sorts. The wife was constantly scrutinizing
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    everything that I did. Constantly calling me in the mornings to be r de and berate me for a bunch of minor things I did wrong. "You used wet wipes on the area around the drink
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    machine, I want you to use paper towels and spray" We were out of paper towels and the spray we had smelled like a hospital anyway. "I came in your store last night and there were three
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    rows of snapple apple, you could probably increase sales by putting 1 or 2 of those rows to a diff product" Even though the snapple fridge was 100% handled by the vendor and we'd signed a
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    contract that we wouldn't change the layout of product. etc. etc Long story short, she was awful to me because I was a dude. I had set up their POS
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    systems because I was somewhat tech savvy. I was made super admin on the new registers they had. I was desperately looking for work, when I found a temp IT job, which led to my current career in IT.
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    I got a new job offer and gave her husband 2 weeks notice, but never told her because I did my very best to avoid talking to her unless necessary. When she found out it was Tues of my last
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    week and she legitimately lost her mind. Gave me a ton of stuff to do and worked me to the bone until 2pm on the last friday I worked. Finally the time to depart
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    forever came, and she personally came with an office. worker and stood by me and said asked me to delete my account from the register. I knew I was a super admin,
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    and I had been told if I ever left to convert the account. She had been told this but had long forgotten it, so I said to hI with it and complied then went to the other store and did likewise while she watched.
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    F11 + F12 delete
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    I go about my life, start my new job, and end up about 3 weeks in when I get a frantic voice mail and like 20 texts and calls from her. I called the office worker who had stood over my shoulder with her
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    and got the scoop. She basically couldn't change ANY prices at all when new beer and soda prices started rolling out and her new opener had just let it all pile up because she didn't know how to do it
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    and they were going to have someone come "Train" her. They had a bunch of items 5 or 10% below the price they were supposed to be at. Margins on cases of beer are low and this was nuking their profits.
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    Once I thought it over, I texted her and said "You asked me to do this, it's on video, and we have three witnesses (the person she had me training, the person I swapped with, and the office
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    worker, who had quit in the 2 weeks since). *Click* (edit: I didn't hang up on her, I'm just being funny lol) I found out later that they ended up spending $6k to get
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    the company back out to fix the issue. The boss's wife legit had a facebook page at one point with people planning to sh on her grave when she dd one day (edit for clarity: she's still alive), so I wasn't the
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    only person she was awful to, but I do feel like I got one up on her, and it feels good. EDIT: I wanted to thank everyone for making me laugh with your fun comments. My slow friday
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    afternoon has been much more fun sharing stories about this terrible job with everyone in the comments. I added a few small notes for clarity in the body of the post.
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    Elocindancer28 The ability of people to f themselves over is astonishing to me. Excellent MC.
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    jbsgc99 Didn't they learn from Jurassic Park? You gotta' spoil the IT people.
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    Corporate-Shill406 This story is a reminder that the military chain of command doesn't stop with the President; it stops with the IT guy who installed the "launch missiles" button in the President's desk.
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    Large-Client-6024 Minor correction. She didn't ask you to delete your account. She demanded it. If she asked you to remove it, you could have explained why you shouldn't.
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