Jumping to Conclusions Can Get You Fired

January 24, 2008 by dave

I thought this Fox News story was pretty funny. Apparently, a woman saw a job listing that sounded very similar to her job, with her boss' phone number listed. She assumed she was going to be fired, so she took action and deleted important company documents.

When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job "and with her boss's phone number listed" she assumed she was about to be fired.

So, police say, she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years' worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.

Of course, she was the only person who had access to the documents besides her boss.

Police arrested Cooley Monday evening and charged her with causing greater than $1,000 damage to computer files, a felony. She was bailed out the following afternoon.

Hutchins told one TV station he'd managed to recover all the files using an expensive data-recovery service.

You can probably sense the punch line already... the ad was for the boss' wife's company. They weren't replacing her. Of course, now they are. The good news is that they won't even have to place a new ad.

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