Something similar happened at a billion dollar company where I worked.
I ran their web site. When my job got outsourced, I got exactly four minutes notice before being shown the door. I was (and still am) the only one with the password for the domain registrar. The people who own the company have too much arrogance and pride to call me to ask for the password so they can give it to the Indian company that replaced me, so after several weeks of the web site not being updated with the current pricing (which changed almost daily), they opened a new domain.
As of last month, my site still sits there as a time capsule with the old pricing, employee bios, and everything from six years ago. I can understand why the domain hasn't changed, because they paid for 10 years in advance. But I don't know why they're still paying the hosting bill.
I worked for an employer where everyone quit in unison when it was revealed he had refused to pay taxes for nearly a decade, the company account was being levied by the IRS, people hadn't been paid.
The company was run poorly and the passwords to most services were held by random people in the company. He did get the key to the kingdom (the domain name) but he's just too incompetent to realize that with domain ownership he can just set up new email hosting and use password reset on all the services... Instead he keeps making legal threats to get things he trivially can get access to himself.
What’s amazing about this is the short sightedness of the company. If they just paid you a decent severance, I’m almost sure that you would have been more than willing to help them.
If they just paid you a decent severance, I’m almost sure that you would have been more than willing to help them.
Nope. No severance. And as I mentioned, almost zero notice. Just "Turn in your badge," and my immediate boss telling me that the project was already outsourced a week earlier.
Something similar happened when I worked at a small town radio station in Wisconsin. This was back when computers were just coming to small business, and people set BIOS passwords and used those round keys to lock their computers. When I got shown the door, nobody asked me for the password or the key to my computer. They just said here's your last check, get out. I heard from one of the DJ's a few weeks later that they ended up chucking out the computer and buying a new one.
I ran their web site. When my job got outsourced, I got exactly four minutes notice before being shown the door. I was (and still am) the only one with the password for the domain registrar. The people who own the company have too much arrogance and pride to call me to ask for the password so they can give it to the Indian company that replaced me, so after several weeks of the web site not being updated with the current pricing (which changed almost daily), they opened a new domain.
As of last month, my site still sits there as a time capsule with the old pricing, employee bios, and everything from six years ago. I can understand why the domain hasn't changed, because they paid for 10 years in advance. But I don't know why they're still paying the hosting bill.