After Being Fired from the Family Business She Helped Build, Woman Refuses to Hand Over the Website

"A woman sought advice from the Reddit community after she was fired from her family's business and refused to transfer the company's website that she had built and maintained for years. When they demanded she transfer the complex website she had built, she refused, offering instead to let them copy it and take the domain. Now, she's wondering if she's wrong for standing her ground"

"When they decided to start a company eight years ago, she helped them build it 'from the ground up,' taking care of everything from licensing and insurance to marketing and technical logistics. She said she also built a 'very extensive website for the company on my own time' as she had already started her own small freelance marketing company. Over the years, that website became a major part of the business's success and a key example of her professional skills."

""I began working from home solely for the family business," she shared. Her responsibilities included handling all customer correspondence, scheduling, managing insurance and licensing, and overseeing crews and payments. Even though she was officially paid for three days a week, she said the workload was full time. "I was often working until 3 or sometimes even 5am including on my days 'off' and was always 'on call,'" she wrote."

A woman lived with and was helped by her adopted parents beginning at age 19 and later helped them launch a company eight years ago. She built the business from licensing and insurance to marketing and technical logistics and created a very extensive company website on her own time while running a freelance marketing business. The website became central to the company and a showcase of her skills. She worked from home handling customer correspondence, scheduling, insurance, licensing, crew oversight, and payments while being officially paid for only three days per week. After being fired, the family demanded she transfer the website; she refused and offered an alternative, and she is now unsure whether she was wrong to stand her ground.

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