I had an employee provide a resignation before I was on site. The employee then unplugged a desktop computer and left the premises with it. The computer contained pricing data, customer data, email communications, login credentials to several important websites, login info to vendor websites.
I filed a police report and the police were able to recover the computer, however the data on the machine was wiped or the drive was replaced.
What should I do?
That sounds dumb asf
You would think, but I’ve worked for some really bad managers in the past that could benefit from some self reflection if they were capable. While the ex-employee’s actions might have been inexcusable, they might not have been unprovoked.