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Thread ID: 104391 2009-10-26 02:47:00 good reason not to fire IT guys nedkelly (9059) PC World Chat
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824258 2009-10-26 05:15:00 Not that I can see myself doing that. Everyone senior in any industry seems to know everyone else. There's no way I'd work again.

Yeah especially in NZ, its *far* too small a country, 2degrees is about right!

Definitely worth nuking an IT-guys access prior to anything being mentioned to him about redundancy, heck even for myself I must admit there's always that temptation there for revenge. Darn religious morales keep me from doing it :p
Chilling_Silence (9)
824259 2009-10-26 09:18:00 As someone has said, the main failure is leaving everything up to one person. Just like accounting, no single person should be responsible for everything.

Everything should be checked and reviewed by a second person, at least so if one person is sick, everything can still run smoothly.
utopian201 (6245)
824260 2009-10-26 09:42:00 Darn religious morales keep me from doing it :p

Are you saying you only have morals because you are religious?
roddy_boy (4115)
824261 2009-10-26 12:37:00 Main failure is the CEO for being an asshat to the guy, serves him right. Agent_24 (57)
824262 2009-10-26 13:11:00 I agree with agent 24

And as a sidenote, I'd disconnect the whole network on top of removing all his privileges etc. you never know what he could have left on your system.
PCT Joe (15018)
824263 2009-10-26 13:45:00 Main failure is the CEO for being an asshat to the guy, serves him right.

Maybe he was an asshat. Hell, he probably was.

But at the end of the day, he too should have acted professionally.

Look, the guy was refused his severance package, now he had two options: 1) have some pretty revenge and piss everyone off for a few days, maybe lose them some money, ruin his own professional reputation, lose his integrity, and open himself to a lawsuit which could have ruined his life.
2) Take them to court for unfair dismissal and get a lot more out of them, while maintaining his integrity.

If the world revolved on people getting pissy and screwing the guy next to them, we'd have killed each other by now.
Sure, all of us have had an urge to go and do something nasty to someone, but we don't do it (because of moral implications, for some) but because we consider ramifications of our actions and because in general we aren't psychotic ******* who act on impulse.

It's just like saying: Johnny hurt my feelings, if I can kill him and get away with it, all's good.
And you saying, well Johnny deserved it.

I think it's safe to say that we have all hurt/pissed off someone in our lifetimes, does that give them the right to come round and try to ruin your lively hood?
Cato (6936)
824264 2009-10-26 19:53:00 The firm deserves everything it got. Unbelievably staff do have feelings if I was humiliated like that I would get back at the moronic boss.
As far as a small industry where everyone knows everyone I don't buy into it. If that was true they would know the reason he was fired because his boss was a numbnuts.
I once got fired for standing up to a boss who was screaming and yelling at someone who didnt deserve it. I got a job at his opposition with the customer list in my head and hatred in my heart we caused devastation at his company.
prefect (6291)
824265 2009-10-26 21:45:00 Yeah unfortunately stories like this don't always list 100% of the facts. When I left my last place of employment, I could have done them over in court for thousands and thousands, unfair dismissal, breach of contract, loads of other things... to be honest I had no cash to take them to court (Lawyer) and it was simply easier to move on and forgo the riches :-/ Chilling_Silence (9)
824266 2009-10-26 23:05:00 When people lose their jobs they are always angry. That's no excuse to do something like this.
You do it the legitimate way by taking them to court.

Pretty much any one who worked for any company can screw them over in one fashion or another. Doesn't mean you drop yourself to their level.
Have some dignity and self respect bro.

That doesnt quite rub with your Evil Super Villian tag...LOL, oh and remember they couldnt prove anything as any scripts got eaten with the rebuild!
SolMiester (139)
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