Company Wants Passwords From An Employee That Was Terminated 4 Years Ago, Threatens To Sue Him For Not Recalling The Passwords

• By Sana
• March 28, 2023
• 4 minutes read

Threatening a former employee years after their termination is unreasonable and unethical.

You are obliged to resolve the issues related to work as long as you are an employee of the company but if you have left years ago and the company still wants to hold you accountable for their issues, it is highly unethical and low of the company for making such a demand. A Reddit user shared with the Reddit community that he was a manager of an engineering team at a company for 20 years but he was terminated 4 years ago. Two weeks ago, he gets a call from the company asking for the passwords for routers. When OP told them that he left the company four years ago and that he doesn’t remember the passwords anymore, they threatened to sue him. Scroll down for the complete story.

This company wants their former employee to provide them with password information four years after they fired him:

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OP was the manager of a network engineering team for 20 years. They had different passwords for routers depending on the line of business.

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The passwords were stored in an electronic password vault.

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Two weeks ago, they needed the admin passwords because everyone was locked out but the vault was removed two years ago.

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They called OP and demanded the passwords. The company wanted to sue OP for not telling them the passwords.

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They fired OP first, now they want to sue him after 4 years.

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The company’s demand for passwords four years after the employee’s termination raises several red flags. Secondly, the company’s threat to sue the employee is concerning. The employee may no longer be employed by the company but they still have legal rights. The company cannot make unreasonable demands or threaten legal action without a valid reason. Employees have the right to privacy, and companies should respect that. The company’s actions may have caused unnecessary stress and anxiety for the employee.

Well, the company should have remembered the passwords or should know that the vault was removed two years ago. How can a big company be so irresponsible? Well, you can expect anything to happen in America. The employee knew that they wouldn’t sue him and he had a good laugh to know what happened to the company that once fired him.

This is why they assumed OP would still have the passwords:

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That’s a professional response:

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Another good response that OP could have given:

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This is what this Redditor would have told his employer if they threatened to sue him:

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That’s how they played and planned the blame game:

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If they had to sue OP, they would have never announced it:

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How can someone recall passwords from 4 years ago when they cannot remember a password they created 30 minutes ago?

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