Sometimes a simple goof-up can change everything. Usually, this is reserved for the plots of movies. Someone finds a critical piece of evidence at the exact right time, and everything comes crashing down. A slip of paper is left on the floor, waiting to be discovered. Someone accidentally lets a secret slip after one too many martinis. A key dangles just outside the prison bars, waiting to be snatched. But this type of serendipity rarely happens in real life. Until it does.

That’s what happened to one employee after a mistakenly sent email uncovered a whole world of injustice. After years of loyalty to a company, they thought they were being fairly compensated. But once they discovered what everyone was taking home, they were left with a bitter taste in their mouths. They wondered if they should stay at the company and fight for better pay or just leave everyone who betrayed them in the dust. After a simple mistake exposed everything, they weren’t sure what to do. So they reached out to the internet for help, which it provided in spades.