My boss sues me for not accepting a lower salary.

So I bankrupt his company to teach him a lesson.

Here's what happened.

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I work as a logistical consultant and have done so for the past seven years.

Most of my work is short-term contracts to update or optimize logistical systems for manufacturers and delivery businesses.

I do have a couple of long-term contracts with repeat clients, and this story is about one such

client.

I got a job offer six years ago with a friend who inherited his family's machine shop.

His father is a brilliant man, but not business savvy in the slightest, and the entire business was teetering on bankruptcy.

My main job there was optimizing the production method for both existing contracts and future

contracts.

This was my first long-term contract, but I'd been doing similar work for a few years,

and had gotten a couple of patents for producing some intricate parts before getting this job.

In the contract negotiation, I made sure that any patents developed

in the course of my work would be retained completely by me. The contract term was five

years before re-evaluating. It took a lot of time and work, but the company became rather

successful, especially considering the condition my friend inherited it in.

2020 happened, and after about a year of trying to stay afloat, my friend sold to some

entrepreneur who wanted to get into the industry. In the months prior to the sale, the

new boss was trying to familiarize himself with the business.

Being in charge of logistics, I had given him a tour of the place and informed him of the

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