Revenge from beyond the Grave...well...beyond retirement

This happened at our work. They had a period of making redundant the "old and bold". One of our older field engineers didn't argue against it, made no complaints and went along with the redundancy procedure.

It was only on his last day when handing over his tools, car, uniform, etc he "happened" to ask who would be servicing the room-sized paper-to-microfiche machine now that he was gone, considering that the 5 year (very very lucrative) contract with the local government still had four years left to go

"What room-sized microfiche machine?"

Well if you look at the detail of the whole contract - amongst the detail of all the PC's, servers, networking etc. there is this piece of equipment that is probably the only one left in the country. And whilst they are phasing out the microfiche generators in favor of OCR readers, we still have a contract to service it whilst it is gradually being phased out.

"I guess we will just get a different trained engineer from somewhere else in the company"

"As far as I am aware, I am the only trained and certified engineer left in the whole company. And before you suggest that someone else will be trained up - I am also the only certified *trainer on this equipment in the company. Or rather, as this is my last day - I was. Let me know how you get on*.

(exit building with a Cheshire-cat grin plastered on his face)

He says it took them 2 weeks to work out that it was basically impossible to find another engineer - let alone a trainer - in the whole country. And for them to then sheepishly get back to him to offer a very lucrative retainer and callout package - which essentially doubled his previous pay scale as an employed engineer

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