I used to work in an industry where everyone from the local police all the way up tot he F.B.I. would routinely send us subpoenas. The corporate (big company - 30k employees around the world) policy was that we would delete all paper notes every seven days, and destroy anything recorded (especially videotapes) every 14 days. We were told this was specifically so we could dodge subpoenas, otherwise we'd drown in them.
That's fine. The company you worked for was apparently not legally required to store those documents for a certain period of time.
My viewpoint is not at all IT related. I work in a heavily regulated industry and am required to do training a few times a year on data retention policies because of how much we are legally required to keep.
I used to work in an industry where everyone from the local police all the way up tot he F.B.I. would routinely send us subpoenas. The corporate (big company - 30k employees around the world) policy was that we would delete all paper notes every seven days, and destroy anything recorded (especially videotapes) every 14 days. We were told this was specifically so we could dodge subpoenas, otherwise we'd drown in them.