[geeks] worst part of the job?

Kurt Huhn geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Jan 2 16:46:56 CST 2002


> I know what you mean.  But that's not as bad as the company which made
> *me* redundant a shade over a year ago and *didn't* tell any of the
> admins in other offices.  So yes, I still had the keys to the kingdom,
> and could get in to 'em from anywhere.  My accounts weren't deleted
> until several days later, when I did the right thing and told the other
> admins.  They didn't change the passcode on the front door, or to the
> machine room either, as I found out when I went to pick up some of my
> stuff later.
>

When I got canned from a dot-bomb just under a year ago they forgot to write
down info I gave them in my exit interview.  As a result, when someone
rebooted *both* redundant mail/dns servers - the LILO password prevented a
bootup.  I have no idea what happened, 'cause they didn't want to pay the
$250/hr fee I wanted to charge to fix it.

At the same time, they canned my employee - who was solely responsible for
the *entire* security system.  Dumb...  I visited a few months later to have
lunch with some friends, and found out that the place had *zero*
security....

Kurt



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