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?
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.