At my old job I was provided with a terrible laptop, I told them I was buying a personal one and asked if I could use it at work.
They said they would pay for half, but I asked if I could pay 3/4 and they pay 1/4 of the price. I got emails confirming that if I leave in one year I would need to pay that 1/4 back, but after the year the laptop is fully mine.
I left 4 years after this point, on my last day of work I confirmed with the manager that my laptop was my own and they agreed.
A month after I left I got multiple miss calls, I dial the number and its one of my old managers, she accused me of stealing the laptop. Said that I had 24 hours to bring it back to the office or she would call the police.
I sent her all the email trails that I had in confirmation that the laptop was mine and she changed her tune and started begging me to help them.
When I left I saved two version of all my work, one was in a cloud, one was on a hard drive…essentially one manager deleted all the files in the drive thinking we had them in the cloud…the other deleted them from the cloud thinking “they're in the drive”.
They lost all their marketing materials, and still to this day I will receive calls from them asking if I could help them out with projects.
TL;DR my old work helped buy my laptop, which was mine after a year. I left 4 years after, to then be accused of stealing. I provide proof I didn't…and then am begged to help them because they accidentally deleted the entirety of the work I left behind.