When helping to tear down an office, you learn a lot about the people you used to work with. When they leave in haste, they forget some rather important secrets.

 

- Passwords. Stupidly written down on pieces of paper or Post-Its. Passwords that are still in place and have not changed. If you ever wondered if people use the same general password for everything they access, the answer is yes.

 

- Prescription medication. We're not talking about painkillers or allergy medications (there's a lot of that, too). We're talking Valtrex, Paxil, Zyprexa, etc.

 

- Social security numbers and tax IDs. This is worse than leaving those passwords lying around.

 

- Pornography. The printed sort. Funny enough, though, it usually doesn't come as a surprise.

 

- Money. Yeah, lots of pocket change, but then lots of $20s and $50s, too. Got lunch money for next week.

 

- Memos about catastrophes in the past. There was actually a lot of evidence in plain sight pertaining to this office's closure -- some of the material several months old.

 

- Liquor. Like the pornography, doesn't come as too much of a surprise.