“Sign this resignation letter, or we end your empl…

I was the living archive of institutional knowledge that kept Ascent Systems functioning. When our CEO forgot critical details about a major client relationship, my phone rang. When finance needed historical data from 2007 that existed nowhere in the current systems, they contacted me.

When board members wanted explanations for why certain processes existed, I provided those answers. My email archives stretched back twenty-one years, meticulously organized. I maintained vendor relationships that predated most of the current staff.

I understood contract negotiations that had happened before half our management team had even graduated college. For twenty-one years, I was absolutely indispensable, until suddenly I was not. The problems began eight months before that confrontation.readmore below