Remote revenge | Worker deletes 'thousands of hours' of work from ex-employer's system after being sacked

Worker deletes 'thousands of hours' of work from ex-employer's system after being sacked

An employee claims to have deleted thousands of hours of work from his employer’s servers after discovering the firm as still using his creative work despite sacking him for ‘not pulling his weight’.

In a Reddit post: “I just deleted thousands of hours of work from my old job,”, an unnamed worker, a video creator making content for social media, recounted his discovery that his former bosses were still using the work he’d created, despite their assertions that he’d not been competent enough to do the job.

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