Loyal employee of 10+ years gets made ‘redundant’ so company's nepo baby employees can climb the latter, gets a new job that Friday and leaves old boss on read: 'The equipment was all signed into my personal emails…'

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  • "I was made redundant and blindsided then asked a small favor two months later, yeah nah."

    Long story a little shorter, my job was slowly stripped down task wise and given away to the bosses family and friends to beef up their roles, through the whole co id
  • debacle, all that remained was test and tag, and told if I didn't agree to that being my whole job, (I was admin/ WHS/ team leader/ purchaser/hide the bosses second
  • handyman business running from his office, goods pick up/ first aider/ and test and tag) I didn't have a job. This is after 10yrs of solid service. Called into the bosses office
  • after co id stand downs etc were over and told I was being made redundant as my role was being contracted to electricians, that already had a solid gig there. They said
  • it obvious I wasn't enjoying my work.. I used to be such a happy face there, and it would be a great opportunity for me to find something I enjoy.
  • Yes, I enjoyed my job before I was told I had to do the one thing no one wanted to do, and I wouldn't have a job if I didn't do it..so
  • When they made me do it I purchased some very expensive equipment to try make it more streamlined, there were in excess of 2k items to be tagged
  • every 3-6months, another 1k 12mths. The equipment was all signed into my personal emails as I needed gmail for that specific app to work and work didn't want to
  • supply one. After I was made redundant, effective immediately, I got a new job the following Friday. A couple of months into the new job I get a message from
  • the old boss. Heyyy hope everything is going well with you! Wondering if you know what the logins are for the test and tag machine and tablet....
  • Read. Continued on with my day :)
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  • Tremenda-Carucha It's like your old boss thinks you're just some chump in Monopoly, ready to hand over all your hard-earned cash and assets because they snapped their fingers... newsflash: this ain't a game!
  • critchthegeek I was laid off after about 8 yrs. I was the only geek who knew how to fix a custom homebrew computer program. After about 6 weeks, it went fubar and they called me. Fixed and handed them an invoice at premium contractor rates...
  • Franklin_le_Tanklin I would respond back that you have a $25,000 minimum consulting fee, paid in advance for any work. Plus $500/hour.
  • Jerry Vand Just tell him that the logins were written down on a post-it note stuck to the bottom of your computer. Hopefully it's still there and he can find it.
  • night-otter Planned a layoff with a big severance package, already lined up with a new job. I told my boss the last week that all my procedures, access codes, etc., were on my laptop.
  • A week later ex-boss called asking where the procedures, access codes, etc, etc, etc. were. "I told you on my laptop."
  • "IT took everybody's old laptops and wiped them, then scrapped them." "I have no backups. Sorry."
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