Nobody messes with Popeye.
Posted on 03/11/2025 11:59:28 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I never understood why people expect that a particular place of employment is a lifetime commitment. Presumably he got paid for his time there - no need for malice and sabotage.
I bet they change their dismissal procedures after this
How about be thankful for the opportunity that was given you rather than bitter about it ending?
There’s a reason why most IT people are escorted out the building when they put their two week notice in.
Such a thing doesn’t require much ‘talent’ but a lot of entitlement.
Not saying you SHOULD do something like this of course, but if you were, the worst thing you could do is set it too trigger as soon as you are fired. You’ll automatically be suspect #1. The correct way to go about would be to set some sort of virus that would kick in say six months down the road, by that time you’ll be totally forgotten by the company.
I left the USS Dwight D Eisenhower when it was in the shipyard (about 1987). There was a welded down file cabinet in my division office with enough space for me to place a raw egg under the bottom drawer. I’m sure that it remained there intact until the ship finally moved. Not sure how they got rid of the smell.
The loss of work time for all employees affected, translated to idle manpower costs, would have to be exponentially greater than the $5,000 in damages.
What can you do?
When you know they’ll fire you
Well if I you can log in
You can still F them
And send their data to the Lu.
Lots of Vietnamese settled in Texas in the 70’s , he could be second or third generation Texan.
I designed an OLTP system in 1992 that was FAR above what my coworkers understood. I spent the next 5 years working on it, and teaching others how it worked, but when I left in ‘97 they started bubble gum and toe-nailing things together. I got a refresher on how things were running a few years ago, and it was BADLY bastardized in ways that made things barely work, and that were against my original design. So, I guess I unintentionally did the same thing as this guy, just with knowledge instead of a logic bomb.
Yeah, people don’t have personal integrity. I work in IT and I would never do anything like that. I was trained to protect the data not destroy it.
The Army trained me well. :-)
That way the user is locked out of the system, but nothing in the system is any different than if the user had rotated (changed) their password, keys, etc. themselves, which is standard authentication rotation best practice anyway.
I've never understood why some organizations delete old accounts, rather than take a few extra steps to do it right. It's just asking for trouble.
When I retired, it activated a kill switch. Our report server ran its jobs under my userid which was de-activated. I could not change it to another person without their password. It was on someone’s list to do.
Your implying having microSoft WinDoze as your operating system IS the kill switch?
I tried to use 3 months of PTO before my retire date but they called me back in so they had to pay me for the time. They added it to my 403b so I wouldn’t get a huge tax bill.
When I left one job, the CIO accused me of “sabotaging the Payroll system”. I was having lunch with a former systems puke who had forearms the size of my thighs. The CIO had actually made him cry once. We looked up and the CIO was in the restaurant. We stopped by to remind him to keep our names out of his mouth.
The systems puke was the only person I ever met who had an automatic weapon. He had worked for the feds and was able to get a permit for a Thompson.
Nobody messes with Popeye.
‘Education without values, as useful as it is,
seems rather to make man a more clever devil.’ — C.S. Lewis
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