Two lessons in this story… 1) Trying to take revenge out on your employer for being fired is a bad idea to begin with, but you really wind up looking dumb if it turns out you weren’t going to be fired in the first place. Oops.
2) For the love of goodness, people, make backups! Nothing excuses a disgruntled employee for deleting files, but if they delete the files and you have no backup strategy and no backups for files that are worth millions, it’s your fault too. Sheesh.
