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I think they decided that it was infeasible to continue using my system without fully knowing how it all worked. I intentionally made parts of it opaque (ie hidden in DLLs) until my contract was resolved. This is part of the reason why they let me go. I insisted that they purchase the rights to those opaque code blocks as part of my contract since they were in fact developed by me for a different project long before I joined the company. (It was a proprietary web server written in c++ designed for high-performance web services and since it was 1 of a kind it had a degree of security through obscurity and therefore I didn't want to release the code for free) I guess a part of me knew things weren't right but I ignored the signs because I loved what I was doing and I was good at it.

Oh, also they tried to claim that they didn't withhold any taxes by not giving me a W2. So now I can't e-file my taxes but they mistakenly reported my income to the department of employment back in Q2 so I'm sure the IRS will be calling them.




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