Man fined for deleting company's files from Google Drive after being fired

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SINGAPORE: A man who was fired from his job with one day\u0027s notice after he had already resigned deleted 20 files from the company\u0027s Google Drive account. Tan Wei Chiang, 30, was fined S$5,000 on Tuesday (Dec 7) for his crime. He pleaded guilty to one charge under the Computer Misuse Act of u

SINGAPORE: A man who was fired from his job with one day's notice after he had already resigned deleted 20 files from the company's Google Drive account.

On Jan 12, his direct supervisor handed a letter of termination to Tan, informing him that his employment was terminated with one day's notice on account of his overall performance and work not meeting the company's expectations. He deleted in a few batches 20 documents belonging to the company by moving them to the bin. He then deleted 16 of these documents from the bin.

She then asked an IT employee to check on Tan's user logs connected to his company account, and was told that Tan had deleted the company's documents from Google Drive. The company had to expend time and effort for its employees to recover the documents, and had to contact the SFA to retrieve some records from them and recreate some documents from scratch.In investigations, Tan initially told the police that the documents he deleted belonged to him.

"It's collated information, the work was done by the accused person. He's of course wrong to have deleted those items," said the lawyer.

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i actually wanna know like for real if u can be fired while serving notice? i mean early termination is one thing but fired?

被公司炒魷魚有什麼大不了的,為什麼要這樣報復?

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