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At a small company I was working for, the owner and president of the company (my direct boss; I was theoretically a director), bought himself all the latest greatest toys and passed on his old equipment down the line. As a result I got his one year old laptop. I then found out he didn't understand how the Recycle Bin worked. He thought he had cleared everything off and I was quite shocked and disgusted when I found the images still sitting on the disk.

I deleted everything properly, wiped the disk and re-installed the O/S from the original media. They were so bad I was thinking of calling the police/FBI on him but then I realised that, in my haste to get rid of the filth, I had just obliterated all the evidence I had! On top of that, if he had been arrested I, and 58 other people would have lost our jobs (and some of us our work visas).

About ten months later he fled the country with the FBI and the IRS in hot pursuit! Good riddance to bad rubbish, I said! He was a terrible boss but paid well above the norm (to keep people who would put up with his tantrums, etc.). The company closed down and we all lost our jobs anyway. Luckily I had just got my Green Card so I could get another job without having to leave the US, although as a "director" level it took five months and moving to a different State to do it, even then only getting 60% of what I had been earning.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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