While we fire the boss, can you lock him out of the network?

2024-01-12 08:31

"The engineer was very skilled at gaslighting the management regarding such things, and without me present they feared he would just flim-flam his way out of trouble - and not for the first time," Alvin told On Call.

The biz countered that the engineer had done good work for years, and had built the network from scratch.

So a plan was hatched: while HR fired the engineer, Alvin would revoke his network access to ensure no revenge could be wreaked.

All passwords were then changed and the business carried on - just without its network engineer.

"It turned out I had overlooked an important change on the engineer's last day: I had not thought to contact the ISP and remove the engineer's name from the list of people authorized to make changes."

"The company took no disciplinary action against me for my oversight, nor their former network engineer for his sabotage, but chalked it up to a lesson learned for everybody," Alvin told On Call.

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