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Ex-Employee Busted For Tampering With ERP System
ErichTheRed writes "Here's yet another example of why it's very important to make sure IT employees' access is terminated when they are. According to the NYTimes article, a former employee of this company allegedly accessed the ERP system after he was terminated and had a little 'fun.' 'Employees at Spellman began reporting that they were unable to process routine transactions and were receiving error messages. An applicant for his old position received an e-mail from an anonymous address, warning him, “Don’t accept any position.” And the company’s business calendar was changed by a month, throwing production and finance operations into disorder.' As an IT professional myself, I can't ever see a situation that would warrant something like this. Unfortunately for all of us, some people continue to give us a really bad reputation in the executive suite."
Proves that security is a process, not a product.
Derp is right... no better way to destroy any hope of a career, than to do something monumentally stupid like this.
I've left positions that have been, to put it charitably, crap. Once it involved hard feelings against an asshat that destroyed the department.
OTOH, the golden rule is to never touch the machinery. EEOC and labor laws be damned, HR critters do talk to each other; even if your stupid stunt never made the news, it will make the rounds. Rest assured this guy will have to move to the other part of the country at the very least.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
It is entirely possible, but far from granted. There are plenty of individual tinfoil hat wearers that either don't perceive reality the way that most do or alternately don't need a reason to be a jerk. This is just one side of the story.
He did not say it was their fault, he said they might have deserved it. Are you unable to read and parse English?
Obviously the IT worker is still a jackass and responsible for the whole thing if the summary is accurate (which it rarely is, but that's irrelevant to my point)
Give me a break with your half-assed sarcastic replies with absolutely no thought put into them.
Why do people ever think that it's a good idea to leave a trail of destruction behind them?
It doesn't make you clever, you're just abusing access. Any idiot screw things up.
There's a huge potential downside for you: if you get caught, you face prosecution, or at the very least, a negative recommendation.
And obviously there is no upside for you. It's not like your tantrum is going to get you that job/promotion/whatever. You want them to miss you because they used to have such great quality work products from you, and now they don't have them anymore.
Awesome work, not tantrums, is what will keep you in a happy professional career.
They don't grade fathers, but if your daughter's a stripper, you fucked up. --Chris Rock
I think I just lack empathy for non-humans. Companies aren't people. When they suffer, I just see numbers changing on a ledger.
That's funny...when companies make people suffer that's all they notice too...
Unfortunately for all of us, some people continue to give us a really bad reputation in the executive suite."
Sorry, but nothing, and I mean nothing, compares with the the bad reputation the executive suite has with everyone one. Psychotic bastards, the lot. Have you forgotten the whole banking fiasco that caused a massive economic meltdown? So, I think if anyone has a reputation to fix, it is upper management.
Then I would say his actions after he quit may provide a good clue why he was passed over for promotions.