Management Fires IT Employee, Tells Him to Delete His Files Regardless of Being Advised Against It, and Realizes Everything's Too Late
They refused to listen, so it's their fault.
The feeling of being replaced in one's job is truly horrible. It's even worse when the person who will replace you is a lower-paid, entry-level employee who has just graduated.
Despite years of hard work, a software programmer and Redditor by the name of oldman712 had that kind of experience. According to him, his job was to design and write software prototypes.
One day, there was a sudden change in management, and he was informed that the company no longer needed him. Then, he was supposed to train the person who would replace him.
He was also tasked with deleting the old customer data he had accumulated over the years. As a concerned employee, he was against it because the files could potentially be useful in the future.
Unfortunately, management refused to listen. It was one of his final tasks before leaving the company.
Since it was an order from the higher-ups, he had no other choice. So, he went ahead and deleted the $1,000 worth of personal disk drives, as management was quite bothered by them.
So, what happened next? As you might have guessed, it was a significant mess-up on management's part.
Scroll down to see what happens. We have also compiled some of the best reactions from other Redditors.
A Redditor shares his experience about being fired and replaced by a fresh grad.
lilzidesigns (not the actual photo)The IT employee's Reddit post
oldman712The work the Redditor does
oldman712
What their customers do
oldman712
The Redditor explains what's involved in those prototypes
oldman712
He saved tons of data during his tenure.
oldman712
The data are stored in his $1,000 worth of hard drives.
oldman712
Here comes the sudden change in his workplace.
oldman712
The bad news came.
oldman712
Sometimes, rigid rules are foolish.
oldman712
Those are his hard drives, so it's only natural he takes them with him.
oldman712
Option 2 would have been great for the company.
oldman712
The new boss is stubborn.
oldman712
Here come the desperate phone calls.
oldman712
Now, they want him back.
oldman712
Everything's too late.
oldman712
The data the company needed is no longer available.
oldman712
This is what management gets for being too rigid.
oldman712
They thought they could save money by hiring a fresh grad.
oldman712
This company is the very definition of this statement.
CocoaBunny91
The company should just replace the incompetent management.
guster09
If the Redditor does come back, he deserves this amount of money. He is saving their a**es after all!
CaptainEasypants
That's what they get for being cheap.
harrywwc
This is probably the only solution.
strangeangelsxx
Sadly, age discrimination is present in other workplaces too.
zenivinez
The best kind of revenge against a cheap company.
nofunheremovealongg
It happens a lot, apparently.
valathel
Companies should learn the lesson that going cheap isn't always the best approach.
AustSakuraKyzor
It's funny how common the Redditor's experience is. There are so many terrible companies out there.
KastorNevierre
Even customers do the same thing too.
b_gumiho
A lot of times, being cheap will cost more.
First, the company hired a person at a lower rate only to find out that he wasn't capable. Secondly, they refused to purchase the hard drives.
The fired employee was even kind enough to give them a second option. But they were so rigid about their policies that they refused.
They're the ones who got themselves into trouble. If they hadn't fired the tenured guy, they'd still be making money smoothly.
