I left before the layoffs and got revenge in the end
Many years ago I worked for a total knob jockey called Stewart in Milton Keynes who had a web media company. He was a total git. When he stopped turning up to work for a few weeks it occurred to me I'd been working on company projects not client work for some time and decided the company was in trouble so decided to leave. I got a load of crap off the boss for leaving then 3 months later he made lots of people redundant anyway.

After 6 months one client asked me to do some work for them as Stewart had verbally shouted in the office about how much he hated that client and would never do work for them again I saw no harm and did a little freelance.

Much to surprise after Stewart found out he went around telling anyone who knew me I stole from the company! (What a wanker).

Several years later his company went bust but reformed with a similar name etc but I decided to get revenge and emailed every client I could find telling them he'd gone bust and offering my services instead. He attemped to sue me! But I pointed out that my contract had been with his previous company which was now bankrupt and his new company had no covenant/gag order to prevent me talking to his clients :-)

Got nothing for me but I liked screwing him over, cost to him:
Lost face, lost clients, 6 x solicitors letters plus their consultation costs.

Cost to me: 2 phone calls and some emails!

He he ;-)
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Sat 25 Feb 2006, 21:58, Reply)