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[quote=Anonymous]I might win this thread....

I once left a job I wasn't a big fan of because I was bored and unchallenged. I left on what appeared to be good terms - it just wasn't a great fit for my career goals, I did my two weeks, transitioned my work, and I went on my merry way. Or so I thought.

A few weeks later I emailed a friend if they happened to want to grab lunch. No reply. Repeat again. I get a reply that they can't really see me given what happened.

What happened??? Huh? I reply asking her what she means. Turns out my coworker, with whom I always thought I had a perfectly normal working relationship, went to my boss and said some things. I didnt know what (yet) but I discovered that a company wide email telling staff to call the police if they saw me was sent. Apparently a police complaint was apparently filed. The police wouldn't let me see it unless I filed a subpoena.

Off to the lawyers office I go. Few days pass, during which time I am absolutely going nuts wondering what the hell has happened. I get a copy of the complaint. 
Turns out my coworker claimed I had threatened to come back and destroy property and equipment, had planted a virus on the computers, etc... I mean all sorts of crazy stuff.

Another letter from my lawyer gets fired off - claiming that my rights had been violated, the company had not investigated these claims but had emailed several thousand people to call the police if they saw me, etc. I didnt care about money... and had no interest in drawing attention to the issue more than had already occurred, in the end they agreed to lawyer fees and sending an email retraction to staff, which is all I really wanted anyway. To this day however, I am "persona non grata" in two buildings. I don't much care as I've completely changed careers and will never cross path with anyone from there again, but wow, what  a peculiar life experience.

I never figured out my coworkers motivation - I had already quit, what possible threat was I to him? We were peers - there was no opportunity for him to get a promotion or anything, it just made no sense. It was as if,  he just woke up, decided the best way to seem like a good employee was to make up a bunch of crap about me and that somehow, that would translate to ..... what? Looking loyal? I never got it. The strangest thing was that it was all done after I left, so its not even as if I would ever have known about it (if the motivation was spite or hatred)... I only discovered the whole mess by accident.

Just goes to show you some people are truly insane.[/quote]

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