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Ex-cow-orker
Dec. 10th, 2002 03:49 pm[This rant would've gone to Bofhnet if not for that fact that I know that the person ranted about reads there, and I find I can't just throw this in his face. He may of course read here as well, but, well, that's life.]
Sometimes you wish that someone hadn't been fired, so you could force him to clean up his own messes. Except, of course, that this guy repeatedly demonstrated that he couldn't even be trusted to do a simple OS install correctly or on time...
A certain ex-cow-orker of me and my wife was laid off a while ago. Now, after it was clear that he'd be going, I and his boss (this was while I was still playing PHB) went through what he had been doing, so that we could give that to someone else -- and we came up with a big fat nothing. As far as we could determine, he had been doing next to nothing detectable for the past year or so. So we didn't hurry in giving his tasks to someone else.
Two weeks ago, someone else finally started looking over the now-gone guy's machines. And discovered that some things that the ex-employee had claimed to have done hadn't actually been done. Things like upgrading sshds and Apaches to versions without known remote-exploitable holes. For example.
Last week he discovered that said ex-employee's machines had been cracked. In FEBRUARY! For eight fucking months he adminned a set of cracked boxes without noticing anything.
So now we get to do the general re-install everything and change all passwords thing, since we can't be sure what else they've managed to do during those months. As if we didn't have enough to do before :-(
Sometimes you wish that someone hadn't been fired, so you could force him to clean up his own messes. Except, of course, that this guy repeatedly demonstrated that he couldn't even be trusted to do a simple OS install correctly or on time...
A certain ex-cow-orker of me and my wife was laid off a while ago. Now, after it was clear that he'd be going, I and his boss (this was while I was still playing PHB) went through what he had been doing, so that we could give that to someone else -- and we came up with a big fat nothing. As far as we could determine, he had been doing next to nothing detectable for the past year or so. So we didn't hurry in giving his tasks to someone else.
Two weeks ago, someone else finally started looking over the now-gone guy's machines. And discovered that some things that the ex-employee had claimed to have done hadn't actually been done. Things like upgrading sshds and Apaches to versions without known remote-exploitable holes. For example.
Last week he discovered that said ex-employee's machines had been cracked. In FEBRUARY! For eight fucking months he adminned a set of cracked boxes without noticing anything.
So now we get to do the general re-install everything and change all passwords thing, since we can't be sure what else they've managed to do during those months. As if we didn't have enough to do before :-(
