So, my working class fellows, as the title says I (and all other colleagues working on a relatively small project) got slapped with termination letters one day. We're foreign workers and I had just returned to my home country (with work laptop) one month before all of this went down.
They are offering us just one month's pay as severance. Not even after the month in course. I mean, we're only getting paid for the last month we've worked + any off days we didn't take. In light of this, I am planning to never return (all signing is done online anyways) and keep the laptop. It is brand new and more powerful than what I already have. I know I am acting like an asshole, but this comes after countless warnings from my side to higher management regarding the multiple issues (with procedures and one specific individual who got there by lying in his resume) which have gone unadressed, obviously. The project failed, comes as no surprise to me, but I do resent them for not doing anything decent to even look into the matter more seriously. So, I am getting out with anything I can get my hands on – fuck 'em all sky high.
My question is – can anything serious happen to me on the legal side becasue of this? I don;t remember signing anything for the equipment, but I mihgt be wrong (as I've mentioned before – procedures – it was hella chaotic). What say you? Should I do it? Would you do it in my place?