> I can only recall one time where the company even had a question that they’d wished they could ask the departed employee. This happened to me many many years

> I can only recall one time where the company even had a question that they’d wished they could ask the departed employee. This happened to me many many years ago at a job I thought I left on good terms with. Times were tough in the company's particular industry and I got laid off. Wound up working elsewhere in an unrelated industry (still doing sysadmin / netadmin / code monkey type stuff). Fast forward a year and I get a phone call from a new guy at the old job on speaker with the office manager demanding I give them a bunch of passwords to systems (as though I'd kept them). Very accusatory that I hadn't documented anything when I left, they might have to sue me, etc. It caught me very off guard but I had the sense to simply tell them they knew where to send their legal threats and hung up. I never heard from them after that. I found out through a former colleague that basically, at the suggestion of a vendor, they got rid of Sharepoint to "save on licensing" and migrated to Google Docs. They didn't really do the migration part properly and lost a bunch of data, among them a bunch of system passwords they hadn't bothered changing after I left.