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Oh I got a good one. I was a system administrator for an Internet business. One time I went on vacation to visit my family. While I was there I tried to check on the servers, but the passwords were changed. Tried calling my boss, he wouldn't answer. A few hours later my company cell phone quit working. Finally got a hold of him after calling with caller ID blocking; he said I was suspended because all our servers were hacked, and that we'd talk when I got back. By the way we're talking 5 Linux boxes each with different passwords and no direct root login, behind two firewalls and fully updated with all the latest security patches. And all the websites and other services were still fully functional. So I knew it was BS. As soon as I got back, he said I was fired for incompetence since I supposedly left all the machines wide open to being hacked.
Another employee there took over my former position, only to also get fired a month later. Well he wasn't really fired, the boss just asked him to work from home, then stopped sending paychecks or returning his calls. I talked to him afterward, and was able to confirm that not a damn thing ever got hacked, and he was put in charge of changing all the passwords and making sure I was completely locked out of everything.
The guy ended up getting rid of all the employees and selling the company. I have no idea why he didn't just say that other than that he's a power-tripping lunatic. I hope he goes on to become a post office manager.
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