Revenge For Being Fired Is Best Served Profitably
The Register, Friday, October 4th, 2024
The exchange of labor for currency can be a grim business, which is why The Register ends each working week with a new installment of On Call - the reader contributed column in which you tell cathartic tales of Working For The Man.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Sam" who has a tale that varies a little from our usual tech support template, but we like it so here goes.
The story dates to the mid-1990s, when Sam scaled a new rung on his career ladder and found himself IT manager of his employer's training department.
This was Sam's first managerial gig, so he started by doing a very managerial thing: a hardware audit.
This was the right and managerial thing to do. But unbeknownst to Sam, it coincided with other managerial machinations - his company was soon acquired.
Job cuts followed. Including Sam's.