Revenge gone alllllll wrong

[jorgemonkey]

Read this on MTBR:

A little communication would have prevented this one.....

Call it a tale of revenge gone wrong.

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.

"She decided to mess up everything for everybody," Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spokesman Ken Jefferson told reporters. "She just sabotaged the entire business, thinking she was going to get axed."

It didn't take Steven Hutchins, owner of the architectural firm that bears his name, much time to figure out who'd done it — Cooley was the only other person who had full access to the files.

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.

As for the job, Cooley originally wasn't in danger of losing it. The ad was for Hutchins' wife's company.

The firm told FOXNews.com that Cooley no longer is employed there.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325285,00.html

[mn shutterbug]

That's actually quite humorous. Talk about jumping to conclusions. Her fears were soon realized.

[another view]

I wonder how they backup their files...

Way to go - grab the bull by the horns and make your dreams a reality! A future politician, I'd say.

[jorgemonkey]

I guess she assumed right about getting fired. In the end she did get fired

[Dstrickland]

That's what you call a self fulfilling prophecy.

[retroactiv]

the question is why was she scared it was her job in the first place? Maybe she knew she was a screwup, and well she proved herself correct.

[GB1]

nteresting story, though sad. Doing stupid crap like that usually always comes back to haunt the person who does it