On Digg today was a story about a woman who deleted 7 years of her company's files because she thought they were going to fire her. This reminds me of a story from the dot.com boom days of the late nineties.

I was working for a video streaming company as art director/lead designer. I ended up leaving that job to take another one for higher pay and more creative freedom. This was before the bubble burst. As things started taking a turn for the worse, the creative director(my boss) was later let go among several others en masse. One friend of mine who got canned described it as being made vice president of pack your shit and get out.

Here is the funny thing; they called the creative director in on the carpet under the pretense of talking to him about something important. While he was meeting with the boss, the IT guys came and dismantled his Mac. They were afraid that he might password protect his machine and make it impossible to retriev files, so instead they distracted while he was still logged on and went in and took the thing. He came back to a ransacked cubicle with his computer missing and oh yeah, by the way, 'You're Fired.'