I had been working in this company for about 2 years, it was a small business with around 20 employees, eventually they closed the sales department that was the biggest one and I was left as the only employee doing human resources and client services, talking to the clients here and there, I was in charge of everything, all the spreadsheet with the clients information were under my name and I was the only one who could edit it, I was also the one the clients knew the most since they would always talk to me.
I saw it coming, I knew they were about to fire me, my boss's wife spend so much money it's insane but that's what you get when you're white middle aged man dating a hot Hispanic girl in her 20's, he started to cut cost, some supplies, the mail lady salary, eventually he told me he needed to lower my salary since he couldn't afford it, the company was making around $30k a month and I was the only employee, lol, with all the expenses it was around $5k so he had all the money left and apparently that wasn't enough, I took my paycut and started applying for jobs, I knew I could get one easy, there's not many companies that do what we do and with my experience here it was a matter of time, the next month after my paycut I had an interview and they liked me, I also knew that was my last month there, he talked to me and told me that he needed to let me go and he would be taking care of everything himself, that would be my last week there, I told him that was okay and I understood, I was ready to start at the other job in a month so I would get some weeks off for myself.
Before I left, I changed all the clients account number by one number, he couldn't proof what was wrong, so this is how he got fucked up, Everytime a payment with checking account was processed and it was declined the company pays a $25 fee, there was over 80 clients with checking accounts out of 110, it also takes up to 7 days to know if the payments are approved or no, so he ran 80 useless payments, waited 10 days just for all of them to be declined, he called everyone but not everyone answers the phone so he couldn't get most of the accounts fixed, I have also sent an email detaching myself from the company, my regular callers cancelled after I left so around 10-15 more, in the next 3 months the company went from $30k to around $15k maybe, I got a call from him asking me if I could go there for a couple weeks just to help him fix some things and “teach” him, I told him I was too busy and that I thought I wasn't doing anything that he couldn't do himself (he told me that when he fired me) and hung up.
I'll give it a couple more months before he has to shut it down, and I am actually making more money in my new job lol