Abusive Boss

Dazzanic

Hi, today I took in my resignation letter and spoke to my boss initially he was calm them started verbally abusing me telling me to **** off and that he would destroy me and the company I am going to work with resulting in him again telling me to get the **** out and take garden leave until they decided what to do with me
Once I got home the MD phoned asking me to change his mind when I politely said no he then said I had copied files to a USB drive and he would speak to their solicitor, I told him I had copied files as I knew they would try to hold off paying me thousands in owed commissions
I feel very down about being spoken too by my manager

lewishardwick

Have you taken company data without permission? Best give it back...

lincroft1710

What is your question?

Guest101

Dazzanic wrote: »

Hi, today I took in my resignation letter and spoke to my boss initially he was calm them started verbally abusing me telling me to **** off and that he would destroy me and the company I am going to work with resulting in him again telling me to get the **** out and take garden leave until they decided what to do with me
Once I got home the MD phoned asking me to change his mind when I politely said no he then said I had copied files to a USB drive and he would speak to their solicitor, I told him I had copied files as I knew they would try to hold off paying me thousands in owed commissions
I feel very down about being spoken too by my manager

You stole company information - uhm that's a criminal matter, you could go to prison, it will certainly cost you your new jobs.

Takeaway_Addict

Dazzanic wrote: »

Hi, today I took in my resignation letter and spoke to my boss initially he was calm them started verbally abusing me telling me to **** off and that he would destroy me and the company I am going to work with resulting in him again telling me to get the **** out and take garden leave until they decided what to do with me
Once I got home the MD phoned asking me to change his mind when I politely said no he then said I had copied files to a USB drive and he would speak to their solicitor, I told him I had copied files as I knew they would try to hold off paying me thousands in owed commissions
I feel very down about being spoken too by my manager

Is the boss the same as the MD?

Also, be very careful about blackmailing your MD....not a good start and the MD would be quite within their rights to tell your future employer.

Muscle750

You are in breach of data protection and this is a criminal offence

Undervalued

lewishardwick wrote: »

Have you taken company data without permission? Best give it back...

How exactly do you "give data back"?

Obviously the OP could return the physical USB drive (if it was actually company property and not one of their own) but given that the data itself could be endlessly copied giving it back is meaningless.

Undervalued

Muscle750 wrote: »

You are in breach of data protection and this is a criminal offence

Not necessarily. If the OP legitimately had access to that information as part of their work or if they need it in order to ensure they receive the correct amount of commission it would not be an offence. Taking the USB stick itself may be (assuming it was not their own) but only if there was an intent to permanently deprive.

prosaver

you could say i put the data on the stick but left the stick in the office and if he asks, where? say you hid it,,then go back to work and drop it on the floor when he not looking. cant realy do u for copying stuff on a stick and leaving it at the office,
just say it was a backup file in case the computer went down.

or you can say cant find it and keep the stick.

Takeaway_Addict

Undervalued wrote: »

How exactly do you "give data back"?

Obviously the OP could return the physical USB drive (if it was actually company property and not one of their own) but given that the data itself could be endlessly copied giving it back is meaningless.

not if its the only copy of said Data left...

Undervalued

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

not if its the only copy of said Data left...

The OP said....

Once I got home the MD phoned asking me to change his mind when I politely said no he then said I had copied files to a USB drive and he would speak to their solicitor, I told him I had copied files as I knew they would try to hold off paying me thousands in owed commissions

Which seems clear (to me) that they simply made a copy for themselves, not destroyed the original.