Backstory:
I used to do technical support for a mortgage startup. Typical grind culture, “unlimited PTO” but taking it made you a villain, beers at work but staying all night, mid-20s COO with a Jaguar, the works. One day after tons of prep work, they got way less VC funding than the previous round, and they orchestrated a series of manipulations and lies to cut off employee communication and then laid off 42 employees (out of 106) in a surprise 9am Teams call after falsely closing the office for the day.
I was one of three IT employees and they cut me off from my accounts while I was trying to figure out why Slack was down (they'd shut it down intentionally).
5 months later…
Today I got a call intended for my previous manager. It appears that their Zoom account – which they didn't need, didn't set up as Enterprise, and never used – was never changed out from my name and phone number. And they now owe $11,000 in service and late fees.
I spent the whole day at my new job in an incredible environment, CACKLING! If they'd treated me right, or even listened while I did work there, this never would've happened. If I'd left on my own terms maybe I'd let them know about this call… But now? Good luck!