IT engineer was forced into redundancy. Then finds his job advertised.

Current colleague in IT. Tells the story where he was once a one man IT band for a small firm, covering almost everything that has a wire in it. PC's, printers, networking, servers, phone system etc. As the business expanded he was always complaining to the bosses that there was too much work and he required some more help and preferably another IT person. Oh and asking for pay rises to match the expanding skill-set needed

So after yet another complaint, he was asked to detail in writing the variety and scope of his role and responsibility which he did with enthusiasm thinking that they were finally taking him seriously.

But soon after that he was told that there was no need for his services as his role was being outsourced and he was being made redundant ( not fired - important later). Was understandably upset but reluctantly accepted it as a business decision and worked out his last month. The curious part was that he was never asked to do a formal hand over to the new company and they even refused to tell him the name of the outsourcing company for "company confidential" reasons.

So he packed up and put his name forward to several job agencies. Was contacted about several but one curious one cought his eye as it was near perfect match for the job he did previously but with a very reduced pay offer. Then asked for the actual job resume and to his shock is was basically word for word his job spec that he had written for the very company that he had just left. Even down to punctuation and spelling mistakes. Blatant cut and paste. Lucky he had previously forwarded the job spec to his own email as backup

He contacted an employment lawyer who took a look over the resume and job spec and immediately took on the case

This resulted in a meeting between them and the company. His lawyer opened the meeting by pushing two sheets of paper across the desk - one with the job spec and one with the advertised resume - saying " I'm not here to argue if or how you broke redundancy law. I'm only here to establish how much settlement you are prepared to offer"

They folded within the hour. 2 years pay. Medical and pension benefits included