Pondering

[cdybedahl]

Over the night, I've been thinking about something that was said in one of the mettings yesterday. More precisely, I've been wondering if anyone actually knows that I'm in a position where I can kill the company in an afternoon, and if anyone would care if they knew. Particularly, if the V.P. for IT/Operations would care to know that now that he has got my wife burned out and on sick leave for at least a month.

Ho hum.

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Interesting thought

[(Anonymous)]

(You know who this is from the IP but not everyone needs to know, that's why this is anonymous.)

I did something like this, sort of by mistake. I hadn't really thought through the consequences but the result was that, yes, the company folded, no, there were no negative repercussions for me. That's the result you're after, right? We don't want any more grief for the wifey, right? Having you in jail would not be good for her health.

So here's my story. I was working for a company that sold products and services to recruitment companies. If I had known what a total loser outfit it was, I would never even have started working there. Then they made me redundant. Of course I had to call recruitment companies to get a new job. *smirk* One of them just happened to be the company that they were pitching for a Big Order (tm). This was the big break they thought was going to get them out of the red. Let's call the recruitment company X, just to be totally cliche.

So I'm job hunting, going through the list of recruiters and I get down to X on my list. I call them. When they ask me how come I'm unemployed, I tell them. *smile* I also tell the recruiter droid that his employer, X, is on the verge of buying some products and services from my former employer and that maybe it's not such a good idea to buy stuff from a company on the brink of bankruptcy? Maybe it could be hard to make sure they actually deliver? Maybe that applies doubly to service contracts?

OK, I admit this wasn't very subtle. But it worked. The recruiter droid didn't seem very interested at the time. But a month later I find out that X had gotten "an anonymous phone call" tipping them off to my former employer's precarious financial status. Oops. The killer is that I found this out from the documentation my former employer sent me about their bankruptcy. :-)

To tell the truth, I'm a bit ambivalent about what I did. On one hand, the company and the morons who ran it totally deserved it. On the other hand, there were some perfectly fine people among the staff. People who had mortgages and kids and who couldn't really help that they were working for bullies and incompetents. Also, I was lucky that although the owners had shown dubious ethics before, they weren't the kind who come around to your house at 3 am with a baseball bat.

My 2 cents. Don't get caught.