The Manager Regrets Firing Me
I had been managing the company’s warehouse software for five years.
Then the new manager came to me out of the blue, saying I didn’t understand frontline operations and that I was being fired.
Looking at the five-thousand-dollar severance, I just nodded.
“Fine.”
He patted my shoulder after seeing me so compliant and started lecturing.
“Young people should be out on the line, moving boxes! What’s the use of sitting in the office staring at data every day?
“We’re a logistics company. Strength is what matters, not a tech geek like you!”
I glanced at the high-end gaming computer in his office and obediently replied, “Yes, Mr. Fuller. Lesson received.”
Maybe I had been too comfortable these past few years, and he thought I was dispensable.
So, I handed over my ID badge and casually deleted all my personal login keys from my computer.
Little did he know that the entire warehouse logistics, inventory management, and route planning software had been coded by me.
I had let the company use it for free simply because the place was close to home and the work was easy.
Now that I was gone, the system running on my personal cloud server was naturally inaccessible.
Tens of thousands of items in the warehouse ground to a halt. As for any commercial software that could replace my system, a year’s subscription would cost exactly one thousand times my severance.