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Defusing the Threat of Disgruntled IT Workers
snydeq writes "According to computer forensics expert witness Keith Jones, for every logic bomb on the network or Terry Childs case that makes it into the press, there are 98 other incidents of disgruntled IT pros damaging company assets that you never hear about. And though most IT workers are too professional to take out their grievances on the systems they've worked so hard to maintain, unless management takes note of the growing discontent in the IT workplace, it may fall victim to the unspoken 'ticking time bomb' lurking within its call for IT to do more with less, InfoWorld reports. Drastically understaffed, battered by interminable hours and impossible demands, many IT folks are being pushed to the brink by management that neither trusts nor supports them."
You don't work much with unions, do you?
Let's see. I got fired from Hewlett-Packard for having a picture of Claudia Schiffer in a evening gown (not nude) on my PC. 'Creating an environment conducive to sexual harassment' even though I was the only person working in the room.
Yeah, I would fire you for that. Condoning any sort of objectification of half of my people on my property is not only wrong, and counterproductive, but it also exposes me to numerous lawsuits where your behavior is harrasment.
Hmm... I got fired from a small medical equipment company in silicon valley when my boss overheard me say that 'white smocks are for white schmucks'. I actually got an unemployment check when I told the hearing judge that 'forcing Asian workers to wear white smocks was an insult because in VietNam and China only corpses were wrapped in white. The boss was telling the workers that they were nothing more than dead meat
Yeah, I'd fire you for that too. You aren't in VietNam or China. You are in American culture and you play by American rules and if you don't want to wear white, that's your stupid problem.
Oh and I got fired from Tektronix when I got blasted right in the eye with melted wax from a printer. No one noticed that the drain on eye-wash safety-station directed water directly onto a power strip. Of course it was all my fault. As always.
Oh, that old printer got you in the eye. Boy, yeah, out the door. That's just retarded.
I got fired from the German milling machine company where I had worked for six years when I demanded that the American employees get the same stock-option package as the German employees when the company went public. Since the USA branch was a subsidiary, wholly-owned by the German parent. The German manager claimed that he felt threatened and intimidated: he was six foot-eight inches and I'm five-foot seven. Ja-Ja.
Dude, its America... everyone has a right to own a gun. How tall you are doesn't matter. It's not like you can go into work and threaten to kill someone as joke, because, well, in this country, everyone has a gun and everyone can kill you.
Best example of this is 911 tape I heard on Sean Hannity. A couple of burglars broke into a house, lived in by a 50 something woman and her 70+ year old mother. Well, the 50 something woman freaked out and called 911, and, as she's screaming in the background about burglars and what not downstairs, you hear a couple of gunshots, followed by what sounds to be some old lady swearing. Turns out that grandma had her late husband's rifle and she shot all of them... best line, was, the daughter yelling out..."oh my grandma, did you shoot him again...." "teach that F---- to break into my house." At least 50% of the USA thinks that that is awesome.
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You're getting 30k right out of college (no exp). With comparatively limitless potential - you should be able to reach 6 figures within 10 years if you're any good.
And you're complaining?