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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Think About This, Calle

[seaya.livejournal.com]

You might not know how lucky you are. The very fact taht she can *take* sick leave and come back to her job afterwards is more than we would ever get in the states.

The fact that you get like 4 weeks a year vacation is more than we ever get.

Your position is rather stable amidst a bad economy.

Yes, you are depressed about your job, but it could be tons worse.

I would sabotage yours or anyone else's future. Wouldn't be nice. If you don't like it, quietly look elsewhere. If you are as needed as you say, they will fold anyhow.

Re: Think About This, Calle

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

You might not know how lucky you are. The very fact taht she can *take* sick leave and come back to her job afterwards is more than we would ever get in the states.

Oh, I know. I'm just pissed off because it's very much the IT/Op VP's fault that she crashed.

The fact that you get like 4 weeks a year vacation is more than we ever get.

Six weeks, actually. Five is standard, one extra is instead of regular overtime pay.

Your position is rather stable amidst a bad economy.

Yes, you are depressed about your job, but it could be tons worse. I would sabotage yours or anyone else's future. Wouldn't be nice. If you don't like it, quietly look elsewhere. If you are as needed as you say, they will fold anyhow.

I'm not going to do anything, and I am looking elsewhere. I actually meant exactly what I wrote: I wonder if anyone has thought about the level of damage I could cause if I really wanted to. If they'd made a halfway decent risk analysis they would have, but the Board of Directors fired the risk management guy... It's not that I'm very badly needed, it's that I take care of all our serious disksystems and all our backups. That's the disks and backups for all our fileservers, our internal mail systems, our financial systems, our sales support systems, our customer databases, webpages and mail for half a million customers, plus a few other smaller things. It'd take me about twenty minutes to wipe all that out, disk and backups. And I strongly doubt that the company could survive that. If I were in a high management position, one person with this much access would worry me a lot. But I don't think our management even have the clues to realise that the situation exists.

What I have seriously considered doing is to shut down the disk systems and go on a four-hour lunch. That'd make it impossible for about 450 of our 500 employees to do any useful work at all for a few hours (plus the 0.5M customer accounts would be inaccessible, which might be enough for tabloid headlines), and would probably be far more than enough to drive the point home.

Re: Think About This, Calle

[(Anonymous)]

...and would probably be far more than enough to drive the point home.

and would probably get you fired, even here in Sweden.

No matter how tempting an opportunity like this is to prove to the stupid management that they have made these mistakes, it will only result in them directing their anger at you. No matter how you turn something like this around, it is still revenge and no matter what, you will take the blame for something like that and they will learn nothing.

I know that you are looking for other places, but do that and only that. Stupidity like what that company has shown can't be cured. Go elsewhere and leave them quietly in their misery.