Former employee wipes data from his work computer after discovering his replacement was offered the salary he wanted

Replacing this employee has just gotten a lot more expensive for the company.

When employees have proven that they can put in the work and have presented the case for a higher salary that they clearly deserve, upper management had better have a good reason to deny their request outright. The only justifiable explanation in this instance would be if the employee was delusional and there was substantial evidence that he was not meeting his expectations.

Of course, it would be hard for management to make that argument here, given the fact that all the employee was asking for was a fair rate that reflected his role in the market. When that rate was dismissed without so much as a decent explanation, the employee promptly submitted his resignation letter.

Somehow, leadership was taken aback by this move, as if they genuinely thought they could keep manipulating this employee year after year. It turns out that they vastly underestimated him. In fact, they also underestimated the trick this now former employee had up his sleeve when he learned that the new person they hired to replace him was making the salary he had been requesting for years.

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Something tells me that upper management wishes they had accepted this guy's request for a raise way back when. Now, not only did they have to pay his replacement that same salary, but they were also dealing with wiped data from the former employee's laptop. This data would have been particularly useful for training the new hire and maintaining organization across the ex-employee's team.
The moral of the story is not only to know your worth as an employee, but also, if you're a team leader, you should consider validating your employees with decent pay before relying too much on their data and organization skills.
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