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   On 19 Sep 2021, jthomq@gmail.com posted some   
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   > Jonathan wrote   
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   >> Good for him!   
      
   Most companies make new employees well aware that anything they create   
   during work hours is no longer their intellectual property but belongs to   
   the organization they work for. That doesn’t take the sting out of   
   relinquishing the rights to everything you’ve spent time on when you leave   
   employment as one fired employee learned the hard way.   
      
   In a Reddit post titled “I just deleted thousands of hours of work from my   
   old job,” later shared on a TikTok account called “@reddit_replay,” a man   
   described what happened when he realized his former employer was still   
   using the work he created, despite telling him that he was not competent   
   enough for the job.   
      
   The employee worked as a videographer, creating content for social media.   
   Despite putting together up to 50 videos each day, the man claimed to have   
   only been paid just above minimum wage.   
      
   “I was freelancing and was on a loose contract. I was desperate for the   
   money,” he explained while justifying why he would put forth so much   
   effort for so little reward.   
      
   The workload was “insane,” according to him, but he managed to keep up   
   with the company’s demands for six months. On top of the low pay and   
   crushing work requirements, the freelancer described the office   
   environment as “bitter” and “snide,” and even accused management of   
   stirring up trouble between workers for their own entertainment.   
      
   As the six-month milestone approached, the contractor compiled the results   
   of the video work he had done, including a graph that measured click-   
   through sales that had come as a result of the content he created. He   
   asked for a pay raise to compensate for the traffic he had delivered and   
   hard work he had put in relentlessly.   
      
   The man even compared his salary to industry standards to demonstrate that   
   he was being underpaid in hopes that managers would understand and correct   
   his pay. He said that although he could make more money elsewhere, he   
   would love to keep working for the company in the same capacity.   
      
   Stunningly, within a few hours of making his proposal, the company   
   terminated him, saying that he was not “pulling his weight.”   
   Although he says he had laid out clear data connecting his social media   
   campaigns to increased sales, the worker was told that his content had not   
   produced the intended impact, therefore was no longer needed by the   
   company. Naturally, the man was beside himself with anger. To make matters   
   worse, he struggled for months to find work.   
      
   Three years after being tossed aside by a business he had given his all   
   to, the former employee was browsing his personal Google Drive and came   
   across a folder he had created and shared with the company during his   
   tenure. He found that 18 staff members were still actively using his   
   templates, adjustments, and presets to produce content for their social   
   media accounts.   
      
   He couldn’t believe the company that fired him had the audacity to   
   continue to use the cloud service that he was paying for. So, he saved all   
   of his files to a local drive on his computer and deleted the online   
   folder, leaving no video assets behind for his former employer, including   
   projects already in progress.   
      
   Revenge can be sweet, but deleting company files can land you in court if   
   you aren’t careful.   
   An inventions agreement releases all of your rights to things you created   
   while employed. This means that you cannot intentionally destroy   
   proprietary files and data when you are leaving. The Computer Fraud and   
   Abuse Act offers employers some recourse when they lose information due to   
   malicious actions. The resentful worker would be subject to civil and   
   criminal liability for their actions.   
      
   On the other hand, it is totally irresponsible for a company to continue   
   to use cloud storage that they have no ownership over to keep any work-   
   related documentation. The ex-employee had no obligation whatsoever to pay   
   for and maintain their company records once he was let go. A comprehensive   
   offboarding process would have helped to transition the employee out in an   
      
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