The world is full of various companies that collectively employ the majority of the modern world. But while some companies prosper and keep advancing forward, others keep putting spokes into their own wheels over and over again, stuck in one place, blaming others while refusing to improve or change their ways.
A great example is the company from the story one Redditor recently shared online. The person had their work computer locked the moment they gotfiredfrom their job for wanting to fix issues that the company didn’t want to have fixed. Yet, months later, that same company contacted the ex-worker and asked them for their password, as they couldn’t figure out how to reset it otherwise. Scroll down to read the full story!
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Some companies want to improve without solving their issues, and it never ends well for them
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A month later, the person was fired because the company didn’t like that they refused to look away from their illegal marketing practices
The company instantly locked the person out of their computer, but six months later, they came back asking for the password, as they couldn’t figure out how to reset it
Unfortunately, this employer-employeerelationshiponly lasted 30 short days since the poster was terminated for doing their job. The company didn’t like that they started pointing out the illegal marketing practices that it was using and offering solutions for fixing them, deciding that the real problem was the person and not their tactics.
Now, cue the company’s mess up. When they fired them, they made sure to lock them out of their work computer, on which, naturally, they used a personal password. The OP returned the PC and forgot all about it, but roughly half a year later, the company reached out to them and asked for thepassword.
Turns out, the ex-worker wasn’t the only one the company didn’t want fixing issues, as theirtech teamcouldn’t figure out how to reset thelaptopwithout having the password, even though, according to the poster’s comment replies, there were absolutely no other security systems on it.
The commenters couldn’t stop bashing the company. Some were simply amused that its IT department couldn’t do a simple factory reset without the password, while others were looking a little deeper and saying that the company might have had ulterior motives that they’re not sharing, but pretty much everyone advised the person to ignore the email and forget about it.
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Most people are bound to deal with some weird employers at some point in their lives. However, some cases, like the one in our story, are more peculiar than others, and thus, learning about them is more interesting. Looking to satisfy our curiosity,Bored Pandareached out to the OP,spicyad, who was happy to provide us with some additional commentary.
For the ending, the poster left us with a piece of advice that could probably be useful to anyone in a similar situation: “Protect yourself. Corporate America isn’t going to. If you feel like you’re being taken advantage of, you probably are. Document everything.”
Most of the commenters were laughing at the company’s incompetence, but some warned the poster that there might actually be ulterior motives behind the request
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