In my experience, what is unsaid is the the tendency of the person to do strange and unprofessional things is probably one of the reasons he got canned in the first place.
“I know we have to let someone go - how about Walter. The guys a little weird, you know”.
Not likely, the reference checks will be answered with “I can only verify the dates of employment and last position held....No, he is not eligible for rehire.”
You always lock your IT guy out of your intranet, change all passwords BEFORE you give him a pink slip. This is a good reason why.
-ROFL-
This thread is useless without PowerPoint slides of the lady in question.
Regards,
Doing this to an executive’s material just before a presentation has NEVER, EVER crossed my mind...lol
ceo’s can also be very unprofessional. for instance:
i’ve seen the ceo gambling... in vegas... with corporate funds
i’ve had the situation where the ceo gets the working product and tries to force a violation of contract in order to get back company shares (9% of the total shares on a $250m valuation)
i’ve had the ceo get the working product, claim there is no moving forward... shutter the company (owing me over $150k)... push the company into bankruptcy... then buy the product out of the bankruptcy and restart a new company with full funding (time span... 3 weeks).
i’ve seen another instance where the ceo bankrupted the company... only after pulling back 2 rounds of paychecks from all employees (direct deposit ‘correctons’ have no time limit on how long after the money was originally deposited). he grabbed 1-2 months of money from all employees (over 500 people) and filed bankruptcy.
all these situations were different companies, in different states or countries. needless to say, i do not hold ceo’s in any special regard... until they’ve earned it.
Real revenge is when you hack into his home computer first, so you can put naked pictures of his own wife on the screen.
“My Powerpoint presentation was hacked. I cannot say with certitude that the porn was not mine.”
But, if you're not into federal crimes, I'm sure there are other ways to seek out a little fun revenge...
Two years suspended sentence doesn’t seem much of a penalty. I wonder if there is more to this tale?
FWIW, all the evil bosses I worked for got what was coming to them , it was a karma thing, so ya got to learn to let go of it. But if you want to make change you really have to get the synapsis firing to figure out how to do it...For instance, I boss I had was maniacal tyrant was bested by a employee that left after I did. This employee had the intestinal fortirude to go to the Corp Ombudsman ( as he said not HR they are usless ) or was it a VP of his boss for a private exit interview... The response was thank you, we knew it was bad over their, but we had no idea.
3 weeks later said maniacal tyrant took a mysterious early retirement @ 52 yrs of age....
Funny how that worked.
Well there’s “that side of it” ... the guy that did it was unprofessional, etc. But I lay the blame on the CEO’s desk. I’ve actually made PowerPoint presentations for two CEO’s in 2 different companies. Not one of them didn’t CHECK through the presentation just before it was given. Not to only for things like this, but to give it one “last-minute” check to make sure they’ve got the wording correct, and confirming they will give a perfect presentation. REAL CEOs do that. If a guy isn’t going to check his speech minutes before the presentation, then I wouldn’t want him running my company! My guess this CEO doesn’t know where the on/off switch is on his computer. If you can’t handle “displaying” a PowerPoint presentation from your laptop, you shouldn’t be running a company.
Let me guess - the perp is a chronic bachelor with few friends, and lousy luck with the ladies. If he had a family, he wouldn’t be as likely to do this, I suppose.