The Bootleg CD That Cost Me My Job
A street-bought email list turned out to be my employer’s stolen customer database. Customers detected the breach before the company did, and I paid for mistakes on both sides.
IT careers
I Turned Down a Job Offer Out of Loyalty. My Employer Fired Me for It.
A two-act story from early in my career: I refused a client’s job offer because it felt unethical, and my employer fired me for “betraying the family.” Twenty-something years later, I still think the professionals were more honest than the familists.