He Fired Me From a Hot Tub, So I Wiped His Store

My billionaire boss fired me over a Zoom call while he was literally sitting in a luxury hot tub on a corporate retreat that the rest of the staff wasn't invited to.

He gave me some corporate BS about "budget cuts," but everyone in the office knew the real reason: last week, I refused to cancel my Christmas flights to cover his shifts while he went skiing in Aspen.

The best part? He forgot to mute his microphone before the call fully ended. Right before I clicked 'Leave Meeting', I heard him turn to his vice president, laugh, and say, "Finally got rid of that dead weight. Now we can use her salary for the Q1 bonus pool."

Too bad for Dave, I was the sole system administrator for our company’s main Shopify store and inventory database. They were so eager to push me out that they forgot to revoke my access keys before the Zoom call.

Before I logged out of the company portal for the last time, I went into the live store, changed the master password, set the prices of all our top-selling luxury items to $0.00, and completely disabled the two-factor authentication for the admin accounts.

Within forty minutes, automated bots scraped the site and bought out our entire inventory for zero dollars. The company lost close to $45,000 in retail value before they even realized what happened. Enjoy the hot tub, Dave.