Perhaps I'm too cynical now, but to me this post reads as a troll trying to get a rise out of people.
Might be. I don't know.
What I do know is that once I had a job where my supervisor was highly abusive to the point she criticized me for having left the office during an afternoon due to a close relative dying. This was a research job, where the closest milestone was scheduled to be in 3 months.
In that job I had a fixed-term employment contract structured in a way which it was automatically extended for 6 months when it expired. Thus I waited out my contract, looked for another job and presented my resignation. Well, that didn't sat well with my supervisor. She started complaining that we had work to do and I couldn't just leave because I owed her at least six to eight months work. Even though she was aware I was no longer an employee, mind you. She demanded I continued working for her in spite of the resignation while a) not being paid, and b) while working another full-time job. She even demanded (not asked, demanded) that I should ask my new employer for a 1 year delay so that I could continue doing her work.
Well, I left anyway and still she continued trying to contact me periodically about stuff at the job up to a year or two after I left. I'm talking about stuff from high level technical issues to passwords to an old windows 7 desktop that was sitting around.
So, I personally don't see Gust's story as outlandish.
https://notalwaysright.com/engineering-a-problem/61642/
Trust in notalwaysright.com/all to suck up even more of your life than the orange site already does. Also, clientsfromhell.net and askamanager.org. And I’m certain the Daily WTF, Acts of Gord, and BOFH need zero introduction here. Good luck in trying to distinguish if it’s day or night—never mind what’s true or false—by the time you’re done with that little lot!