Here is one for everyone. My boss knew I was looking for another job. In the meantime they hire a new IT person to replace me. Now my wife is the office manager there. They don't tell her they hired him. I get sent out on a bogus call. They keep my company laptop because the bosses was broke. I go I come back 2 hours later. I get called into the office and fired for having my bosses personal hard drive coppied to my hard drive. I am leaving anyway so figure the heck with it. So I just say whatever and leave. The next day the new guy shows up. My wife is like ok this was a major setup. I get a letter from thier attorneys the next day saying I misappropriated confidential information and trade secrets, and breached my employment contract. I find this funny since I never had an employment contract. They also say the will settle if I agree not to sue and keep the settlement confidential. Of course this is worded strongly, and I only have 10 days to respond. So of course knowing that if I can get the computer through the courts and see just when it was written to the hard drive I get a lawyer to respond back. Still haven't heard back from them been about three weeks now. They decide to shut down the entire company's e-mail system in case I send a virus. Needless to say my wife quit a week later. The moral of the story is they tried to set me up without knowing the facts or something any tech knows, that you can easily find out when something was written to a hard drive. Oh somehow all of the back up tapes for the week before this happened somehow got thrown away. I almost hope they try to push the issue since I sent them a letter saying basically they must appologize and not tarnish me in any way. I'll keep you all posted on how it proceeds. The funny thing is before I left they let me on the computer to pull off some personal files mostly just letters. If I really wanted to I could have just formatted or shred the disk and made them spend a lot of money to try and recover it.
