There is a reason big companies fire/make people redundant then escort them to the door.
When you fire a bulldozer driver, take the keys off him first!
Wasn't there a tale of a software 'bomb' in some submarine, left by a disgruntled software writer. When a certain date was reached, a message popped up daying "Your software application has been suspended. To reactivate the application, send $ lots to
[email protected]" or something to that effect?
Work data not backed-up? What a mistake-a to make-a!! Of course CIS-plod probably doesn't allow data to be copied to a USB stick and kept safe by air gap, do they? Back in the days of 'Word Perfect' or 'Word for Windows' or whatever it was called, most people who had to write reports kept their work safe on a private floppy disk. But that was before the A: Drives were disabled and everyone had to rely on the world's worst (and slowest) network system........
The way that Flying Pay is being used as a PVR punishment speaks volumes about the RAF of today, to my mind. Good luck to those few who elect to stay, you'll need it, I'm afraid