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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."
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?
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...