IT Guy Takes Revenge On Greedy New Boss By Quitting Job And Taking Source Code With Him

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mattstaff
Jul 30, 2019 11:00 PM EDT

When this IT guy found out that his greedy new boss and his henchman sidekick had essentially tried to play him by claiming his hard work as their own; and only offering him a couple vacation days as payment, he took a well calculated revenge. He played his revenge perfectly too. He managed to get the boss' "yes man henchman" to sign off on a two week vacation and his notice for leaving, without even realizing it. 

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    revenge - Text - r/ProRevenge JOIN u/stutteringp0et 5d 1 New boss takes it in the neck Years ago, I was the manager of an elite help desk team for a large computer manufacturer. This was the coolest job because of the perks. I got to hand-pick the best-of-the-best techs to work in my department because we charged $2 per minute for support. We would support anything that anyone was willing to pay us $2/minute to support. Each tech had the potential to earn the company $960 per day, which is a big
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    revenge - Text - The company IT department had not been able to automate the creation of this report, so they gave it to me to deal with. After running through it with my techs, we came up with a process that involved: 1. receiving the previous days data from IT 2. tech 1 started the report, working on it for her entire shift 3. tech 2 resumed the report for her entire shift 4. turning it into management for their review at the end of the 2nd shift So, data from Monday, was delivered to us Tuesd
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    revenge - Text - My team was the golden child of the tech support arm of the company, and I had a great boss (GreatBoss). I had a meeting with him about this daily report issue, because I wanted my 2 techs back on the phones making money. I offered to write a software application on my own time, which would retrieve the data in real-time, and create the reports for the currently available data whenever management wanted to view it. No more 2 day old data, I was offering 5 minute old data. I aske
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  • 04
    revenge - Text - So, I got to work. It took about a week to write the code. When I was finished, I installed it on one of the company servers and did some fine tuning. Everything worked as planned. I was about to raise the performance metrics of my team and make a few thousand extra in the process. Unfortunately, during that week GreatBoss had been forced into retirement and I had a new boss (NewBoss) who came with a yes man named Randy (RandyWeasel)
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    revenge - Text - When I presented the reporting system to NewBoss and RandyWeasel, they were really impressed. They loved that they didn't have to look at old/stale data and could be proactive instead of reactive. Then I mentioned the agreement with GreatBoss regarding compensation for my time. That's when things went south. NewBoss said he would need to clear that with upper management, and that he didn't think he could pay that. The next day, he came back with an offer for 2 vacation days inst
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    revenge - Text - As the author of the software, only I knew how it worked, what maintenance it required, and only I had the source code - so it couldn't be modified by anyone else. If they wanted changes, they would have to re-write it from scratch. I knew it would only be a matter of time before lack of maintenance bit them, so I planned to be long gone by that time. My revenge began about 5 minutes into my next shift. I arrived with a large duffel bag, and sheets of paper in a folder. Right on
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    revenge - Text - He looked down at the top sheet, a vacation request form starting today through the next 2 weeks. He said "you can't take this", to which I replied "you signed it, and it gets better". He flipped to the next sheet, my 2 week notice. His eyes grew to the size of saucers as he realized that yesterday was my last day, and that they had no replacement for my duties and no leadership for my team. returned to my desk, and proceeded to pack up everything. I got my 2 weeks paid vacation
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