Corporate Sabotage

Being fired at 4PM on a Friday and getting escorted out by security was humiliating for Jared. He was one of the company’s leading technical biomedic researchers and not even being able to tidy up his work or say goodbye to his co-workers felt insulting. But he knew that the company didn’t know a thing about the backups he had on his home computer. He simply opened up some of the files there and got to work. The main source code still needed some work, and he spent much of the weekend with some tweaks. In other files, he found DNA records for the entire company, including the CEO. On Sunday evening, he hooked himself up to his computer and ran the code. The next thing he knew, he was transformed into an exact copy of Laura Ellis, the CEO of his now former company.

He woke up early on Monday, dressing in an outfit his ex-wife had left behind when she divorced him. The leather dress wasn’t exactly something Ms. Ellis would wear, but he figured no one would question it. After all, he otherwise looked exactly like her down to her DNA. Then he arrived at the office at 8AM, entered Ms. Ellis’s office and closed the glass door. This was long before she usually showed up, and he figured it was more than enough time. Laura was one of those people dumb enough to write passwords down on her desk and arrogant enough to demand access to everything. Then it was just a matter of deleting large chunks of code and even larger chunks of backup data. He sauntered out of the glass door of Ms. Ellis’s office a little before 9, satisfied in the corporate sabotage of his former employer.