Welcome to R-Slash Pro Revenge, where a fired employee destroys his former employer's company.

Our next reddit post is from Kibu Fox. This isn't my story. I was present for it sure,

but I didn't see all of it personally. Rather, this is my father's story. So, some context.

My father had a degree in mechanical engineering. It was either a master's or a doctorate.

It had taken him years to get, and he was very proud of it. Thanks to his training,

he had found his way working for many well-known companies, working primarily with the procedures

used to make various things. Over time, he'd privately began working on an idea that would revolutionize

how school and gym lockers worked. See, my father realized that there was a problem with those type

of metal lockers. Namely, it was very easy for a person to break into them. What's more,

with the way that lockers used to be designed, there were multiple moving exposed parts,

which meant that if a student put too many books on top of one,

the locker could just be jammed shut, making it almost impossible to open.

So, for several years, my dad toyed with a number of ideas before hitting on a new design,

which would solve all these problems. The inner workings of the lockers locking mechanism

would be contained within the door in such a way that, one, it would be impossible for someone

to break into. And two, the entire mechanism would be enclosed. And three, it was relatively

maintenance free. Now, at this point, my father was the vice president of manufacturing,

and apparently, there wasn't a clause in his contract that said that if he designed

anything while working for the company, then he had to turn that over to them for profits.

Dad still approached the company, offering to sell them the design, but they weren't interested.

Dad sat on the design for a while before eventually just taking out several patents on them,

and then forgetting about them. About six months after his first attempt at getting the company to

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