Freelance employee quits after being overworked and underpaid for 8 months, 4 years later he sees they're still using his Dropbox, so he deletes everything: ‘[Everything] they've been relying on for years will be gone.'

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• Sometimes you really just have to put your head down and try to muscle through your workdays. Only with the hope of someday being able to quit and find big and better things can you do what you gotta do. However, sometimes you just can't thug it out anymore and you have to put your foot down. Will that always work out in your favor? Maybe not immediately, but standing up for yourself will always be better for you going forward.

  When this guy asked for a tiny raise, they fired him. They said he wasn't a good team member and his work was useless. So they let him go, and he left unhappy. He wasn't even a full-time hire, and he didn't even ask for the market standard rate for his position. It was months before he could find another job. But he did, and guess what? Four years later, he found out they were still using his work all of the time. The work that they deemed unusable. Well, if it's so unusable, then I guess you wouldn't mind if he deleted it…

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• The company that hired him, underpaid him, basically called him useless, then fired him was STILL using his work four years later… That kind of audacity isn't sold over-the-counter. That is prescription strength! That is crazy. He was paying for that storage space himself, and they didn't think he would catch on?? Well, now they are finally being forced to face the consequences of their actions. What will they do now? It's not like they can reach out to him and ask for his assets. The same assets they said they didn't like and that they used against him to fire him. Yeah, now that feels like crazy talk. We hope this man is able to get a front row seat to the crumbling effect his deletion will have on his past employers. If you're going to treat your employees poorly, then expect the same kind of treatment back…

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