Truth to Power

Well, that certainly showed them…

Angry Employee Deletes All of Company’s Data

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.

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.

As for the job, Cooley originally wasn’t in danger of losing it. The ad was for Hutchins’ wife’s company.</em>

Boy, thats gonna look great on a resume.


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