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Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective?
New submitter recaptcha writes Today one of my fellow workers has announced he has found another job and will be leaving our company in two weeks' time. This is all above board and there is no disgruntled employee scenario here; he is simply working through his notice period and finishing up some jobs. I have already set some fileserver folders to Read-Only for him and taken a backup of his mailbox in case he empties it on the last day. Which best practices do you follow that will prevent a resigning user from causing any damage (deliberately or not) in these last days of employment before his account is disabled?
When I read the subject line, I assumed the definition of resignation to be:
'the acceptance of something undesirable but inevitable.'
This describes the attitude many users have toward the IT department.
Have gnu, will travel.
Yeah just like commercial jet pilots
Its working well for secretary clinton
Last time I gave notice and worked 'til the last day people plain forgot that I was leaving.
Best practice is to beg him to take you with him. Get out before you find yourself 10 years from now a broken shell of your former self. Take him out drinking and post pictures of you and him at the tittie bar on your company linkedin account. Trust me, it'll be a blast, and you'll not have to suffer dicking around with a mail server as your hopes and dreams dissolve before your eyes as a result of some liberal obama pipe dream.