Resignation letter (was Re: [SunRescue] The Question.)

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

I promised myself I wouldn't get involved in this thread, but....

At a previous place of employment, I found out I was terminated when
I checked my voice mail one morning.

My boss ("Ling") was on a trip back from Japan and she left me the
voice mail so that I could be terminated in time for the IPO
paperwork to be filled out with the "right" number of employees (ie
"x number of employees as of April 17th").  Since they paid 2 weeks
severance, I had to be gone by exactly 2 weeks before that.

Heh, got the voice mail, then realized that I could still log into
the network (I never had admin privs on this network).  They were so
"keep quiet" about everything that they hadn't told the sysadmin.

First things first, I used the companywide email address
(all at company.domain) to let everyone know I was gone; sort of a
cheery, "wish everyone the best" kind of thing, while letting
everyone know that I had been toasted.  The folks in San Jose who
were about to be fired got the email before the CEO got off his
flight, so they knew he was coming to fire THEM - they thus went out
to a long lunch; which lunch puckered the CEOs patootie when he
walked into the ghost town of the SJ office.

Then I copied all the relevant, work related files to the server and
told the sysadmin what they were, so they wouldn't be deleted.  After
all, I should hand over all my work product to my boss, right?

Then,  SHREDDED every last goldarn bit of paper that was in my
cubicle, except business cards which I handed to the VP Sales, a
braying jackass who did nothing but reinforce all those negative
stereotypes about people from New Jersey.  I found out later that he
had unloaded one of his losers into my former department  - thus I
needed to go.

Since the company was going IPO, they had an industrial strength
shredder that chewed through just about anything.  I filled up two of
the "size-huge" bags, since I had done some work on documentation.

After that, I realized that with the work info on the network server,
ready to be handed over to my boss, ergo, the only stuff on my
computer was by definition personal.

Booted DOS, formatted the hard
drive.  TWICE.  Pulled the power on the system halfway thru the
second format just to be sure that the FAT tables were screwed, blued
and tattooed.

Put my personal stuff in a small box and walked out to the car.

OK, maybe this was offtopic.

ObSunRescue:  hey, how about those new $1k Netras?

Cordially

Patrick