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I spent almost two years getting the new fitness center built, organized, functioning, and was well on my way to managing the best in the area. Then, the owners decided to install a new computer system. Being the only one in the whole place that new a fair amount about computers, I was elected the official "tech guy."

Although I had no official training, I decided to be part of the team and help out. I ended up configuring the entire system! Everything from entering people's passwords to entering in vital information. This means that I had access to everything. I was very proud of the two months I spent getting the system up and running and was pleased when my boss handed me an envelope. She indicated that it was for all the extra hours I had spent dealing with the new computer system.

"Oh Boy!" I thought. "A bonus!"

It was a $25.00 gift certificate to the mall. Thanks for nothing, you evil wench.

Things went from bad to worse. They hired a director that was now my supervisor. She had no degree, no experience, and kept coming to me for advice and answers. I began to see the writing on the wall when she started asking me to write down my job duties.

It turned out that I was right. I came in one morning to find that I could not log-on to a particular computer station. I was puzzled because I had access to everything. It then dawned on me that they were going to fire me and had changed all of the passwords and eliminated me from the system. But, luckily, I hadn't logged off "my" computer the night before and I was still on the system. I proceeded to take all of the management off, change vital prices, and set up the security so that they would have to call the company's very expensive tech support line just to be able to log-on to the system.

Two hours later, I was terminated. I wasn't given a reason. Just fired. Although I was very upset, I held somewhat of a smile when my former co-workers informed me later that it cost almost $1,000 to fix the all the problems I managed to create during my last two hours on the job.

Chippy: "They say that success is the best revenge. Well since I have left that organization, I have more than doubled my salary and I'm a very successful pharmaceutical sales representative. I couldn't be happier and have absolutely no regrets for the actions I took on my former employer."

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