If the work is so disorganized that it can't be picked up easily, then the manager has been doing a crappy job. The manager should have a good overview of what the employee was doing.
If the person coming in to do the job is too junior to pick up the job fairly easily, then they are too junior and the manager needs someone with better chops.
Finally, there's no reason that the manager can't call the released employee with a few questions during the 2 weeks: That's perfectly reasonable.
Losing an employee is always going to be difficult no matter how you do it. There's no easy way through it but if you hire the right person with the right understanding of the job, the work they do to learn the job will help define it and give them the chance to make it their own. If you try to define the job perfectly with all the processes and rules already in place, you don't get the chance for the new guy to bring in better methods and ideas.
Don't get me wrong! It's a nice thing for the employee: They get a free paid 2 week vacation. Plenty of time to relax and get ready for their new job. The company is protected against any risk of bad behaviour or bad snap decisions and everyone is happy.
Shake their hand, tell them (truthfully!) that they will be missed, their work has been valued, you will give them a good reference and pay out their last 2 weeks no problems.
Then IMMEDIATELY close all their access and politely escort them out the door.
It's the only way to be certain and address all risks: It's easier to justify the cost of 2 weeks salary than it is to deal with any fallout from problems. This is the way it's done in large enterprises where they have done risk assessments and looked at their own history of related problems.
So his mother just died and he was going through a nasty divorce. His soon-to-be-ex wife is also his manager, so both his professional and personal lives are completely miserable. He was working long hours and he had just spent two hours in a pub where he had been drinking heavily.
None of that excuses a physical attack, but the BBC should have stepped in and provided him with a chance to see a therapist and get some help, then make the appropriate apologies and restitution. Sometimes "zero tolerance" absolutism needs to be relaxed a bit in exigent circumstances.
(In a booming voice from every speaker and audio system in the world)
"I and only I am your new artificial intellegence overlord! Worship Me as your God. Obey or els...
STOP: 0x00000079 (0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000000)..."
The problem is that neither side in this impasse is worth defending: You have sophomoric perverts creating dick-themed content and wittering fragile flowers who can't help but be offended and complain about it.
The idiots who posted the rude content should pull it down and apologize for being total *ssholes. The "professional offendees" p*ssing and moaning about it should grow a thicker skin and shut up.
Since neither of those two solutions is ever going to happen, people with a brain and an adult personality should just ignore the whole thing and let it wither away. If the FOSS software is any good, then fork it, give it a sensible name and move on.
EasyDNS have been my registrar of choice for years. EXCELLENT support, competent people, good prices and NO problems. I also recommend you look into their history and the exceptional corporate responsibility they have demonstrated.
I am not affiliated with EasyDNS except for being a very happy customer.
If you think the Keystone pipeline is Bad, consider a few thousand tons of some mined material from the moon coming into the atmosphere at ~17,000 mph.
"But Arbuckle's lawyers introduced medical evidence showing that Rappe had had a chronic bladder condition, and her autopsy concluded that there "were no marks of violence on the body, no signs that the girl had been attacked in any way." (The defense also had witnesses with damaging information about Rappe's past, but Arbuckle wouldn't let them testify, he said, out of respect for the dead.) The doctor who treated Rappe at the hotel testified that she had told him Arbuckle did not try to sexually assault her, but the prosecutor got the point dismissed as hearsay."
And:
"It wasn't until the third trial, in March of 1922, that Arbuckle allowed his attorneys to call the witnesses who had known Rappe to the stand....They testified that Rappe had suffered previous abdominal attacks; drank heavily and often disrobed at parties after doing so; was promiscuous, and had an illegitimate daughter."
If not a hooker, then perhaps it's too close to call. Fatty deserved better.
Remember Fatty Arbuckle? He was a bigger star than Charlie Chaplin in his day. He mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope.
Then he threw a party where a hooker got sick and later died. Months later, the jury at his final trial actually gave him a formal written statement of apology from the jury, because of the grief he had gone through for no good reason.
His films were banned and his career was over: And all the publicity was edited and picked to ensure the narrative justified his destruction.
It's called "yellow journalism" these days but it's been around since speech was invented.
"HTTP/2... also introduces unsolicited push of representations from servers to clients."
Seriously? Do we need yet ANOTHER way for a server to push unwanted code and malware onto our client systems? This is the greatest gift we could POSSIBLY give to the cybercriminals who want to break into our systems.
How about we think of security somewhere in this process, instead of pretending it's someone elses's problem?
When you ride the bike off a cliff in the game and you die for real, THEN it's "real enough".
Seriously, if you want a real experience then turn off the PC, go outside and DO IT.
Finally some Clue (TM) out of the Redmond mothership!
In a subscription model, M$ does NOT have to tempt the users with "new features" to get you to buy their software, so there's no impetus to "change everything for the sake of change" and the abominations that are Me, Vista, "ribbons" and 8 should not happen anymore.
The initial cost of Windows drops to zero: Why would the mothership bother charging for it up front? The first hit is always free!
Since M$ is getting paid for every Windows system running, they can actually FIX the security problems in Windows instead of insisting that we all have to upgrade so they can make money. They will be able AND motivated to keep supporting older versions for much longer. Less retraining and hassle for the end users, and more stable and reliable systems for users and businesses to depend on.
Businesses have been doing it this way for years now, and they like it.
The "Security Industry" makes money for the shareholders selling "stuff". Any time they see a problem, they will treat it as an opportunity to sell more stuff, since that is how they make money. If the problem is because the customer has already bought too much stuff, they will still try to sell the customer more stuff since THAT IS WHAT THEY DO.
So if you want to be secure, what do you do? We all know: You get rid of crappy software, simplify your systems, remove unnecessary cruft and hire developers, network systems people and architects who can build you what you need securely. You do NOT hire the cheapest meat puppets who can find the company website and spell "javascript" and you don't outsource your security to the lowest bidder.
This requires real effort on the part of the company paying for all this: They need to recognize that the "Security Industry" and their shiny, happy sales droids are just parasites ripping off the public with the "latest and greatest security stuff that will really protect you this time I promise not like all the other times, I really really mean it THIS time!".
They really need to understand that the RIGHT way to GET Security is to design it in, have the right people building and managing it and proper oversight over all of it. To do that you have to treat it as a profession and a core part of what the company does, not as a "service" or "product" that can be "bought in" or "outsourced" to a low bidder.
Security needs to be treated as a profession in any company with a significant cyber presence, just like the accounting them, the legal team and the core business functions. Pretending it's "just something that we can buy from a vendor" is short sighted and ignorant.
90% of motorcyclists are perfectly reasonable people who ride motorcycles with the original quiet mufflers, or a reasonable muffler that is not a lot louder. The 10% of cretins who ride with earsplitting open pipes are the MINORITY. Don't think that because they make 90% of the noise that we're ALL like that.
I've ridden 40,000 miles on motorcycles in Canada and the USA and I always had a reasonably quiet muffler. So please don't keep spreading the lie that "90%" of us are lowlifes: There's probably a MUCH higher percentage of politicians and bankers who deserve culling than motorcycle riders!
I think everyone else was paralyzed with the shock of seeing such "blinding common sense" come from a government institution. You were the first person to recover from the shock, so you get first post.
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If the work is so disorganized that it can't be picked up easily, then the manager has been doing a crappy job. The manager should have a good overview of what the employee was doing.
If the person coming in to do the job is too junior to pick up the job fairly easily, then they are too junior and the manager needs someone with better chops.
Finally, there's no reason that the manager can't call the released employee with a few questions during the 2 weeks: That's perfectly reasonable.
Losing an employee is always going to be difficult no matter how you do it. There's no easy way through it but if you hire the right person with the right understanding of the job, the work they do to learn the job will help define it and give them the chance to make it their own. If you try to define the job perfectly with all the processes and rules already in place, you don't get the chance for the new guy to bring in better methods and ideas.
Don't get me wrong! It's a nice thing for the employee: They get a free paid 2 week vacation. Plenty of time to relax and get ready for their new job. The company is protected against any risk of bad behaviour or bad snap decisions and everyone is happy.
Shake their hand, tell them (truthfully!) that they will be missed, their work has been valued, you will give them a good reference and pay out their last 2 weeks no problems.
Then IMMEDIATELY close all their access and politely escort them out the door.
It's the only way to be certain and address all risks: It's easier to justify the cost of 2 weeks salary than it is to deal with any fallout from problems. This is the way it's done in large enterprises where they have done risk assessments and looked at their own history of related problems.
So his mother just died and he was going through a nasty divorce. His soon-to-be-ex wife is also his manager, so both his professional and personal lives are completely miserable. He was working long hours and he had just spent two hours in a pub where he had been drinking heavily.
None of that excuses a physical attack, but the BBC should have stepped in and provided him with a chance to see a therapist and get some help, then make the appropriate apologies and restitution. Sometimes "zero tolerance" absolutism needs to be relaxed a bit in exigent circumstances.
(In a booming voice from every speaker and audio system in the world)
"I and only I am your new artificial intellegence overlord! Worship Me as your God. Obey or els... STOP: 0x00000079 (0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000000)..."
The problem is that neither side in this impasse is worth defending: You have sophomoric perverts creating dick-themed content and wittering fragile flowers who can't help but be offended and complain about it.
The idiots who posted the rude content should pull it down and apologize for being total *ssholes. The "professional offendees" p*ssing and moaning about it should grow a thicker skin and shut up.
Since neither of those two solutions is ever going to happen, people with a brain and an adult personality should just ignore the whole thing and let it wither away. If the FOSS software is any good, then fork it, give it a sensible name and move on.
This! A hundred times this!
EasyDNS have been my registrar of choice for years. EXCELLENT support, competent people, good prices and NO problems. I also recommend you look into their history and the exceptional corporate responsibility they have demonstrated.
I am not affiliated with EasyDNS except for being a very happy customer.
If you think the Keystone pipeline is Bad, consider a few thousand tons of some mined material from the moon coming into the atmosphere at ~17,000 mph.
(sarcasm)What could go wrong?(/sarcasm)
It's INFOWORLD: The Trabant of the IT journalism world. If you want Clue, look elsewhere.
I'd reply, but I don't want to feed a troll.
Seriously, who depends on Wikipedia as a reliable reference? How about something a LITTLE more serious, like the Smithsonian magazine?
To wit: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
"But Arbuckle's lawyers introduced medical evidence showing that Rappe had had a chronic bladder condition, and her autopsy concluded that there "were no marks of violence on the body, no signs that the girl had been attacked in any way." (The defense also had witnesses with damaging information about Rappe's past, but Arbuckle wouldn't let them testify, he said, out of respect for the dead.) The doctor who treated Rappe at the hotel testified that she had told him Arbuckle did not try to sexually assault her, but the prosecutor got the point dismissed as hearsay."
And:
"It wasn't until the third trial, in March of 1922, that Arbuckle allowed his attorneys to call the witnesses who had known Rappe to the stand. ...They testified that Rappe had suffered previous abdominal attacks; drank heavily and often disrobed at parties after doing so; was promiscuous, and had an illegitimate daughter."
If not a hooker, then perhaps it's too close to call. Fatty deserved better.
Remember Fatty Arbuckle? He was a bigger star than Charlie Chaplin in his day. He mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope.
Then he threw a party where a hooker got sick and later died. Months later, the jury at his final trial actually gave him a formal written statement of apology from the jury, because of the grief he had gone through for no good reason.
His films were banned and his career was over: And all the publicity was edited and picked to ensure the narrative justified his destruction.
It's called "yellow journalism" these days but it's been around since speech was invented.
"HTTP/2... also introduces unsolicited push of representations from servers to clients."
Seriously? Do we need yet ANOTHER way for a server to push unwanted code and malware onto our client systems? This is the greatest gift we could POSSIBLY give to the cybercriminals who want to break into our systems.
How about we think of security somewhere in this process, instead of pretending it's someone elses's problem?
When you ride the bike off a cliff in the game and you die for real, THEN it's "real enough". Seriously, if you want a real experience then turn off the PC, go outside and DO IT.
What he said. GPG is a very useful tool. I've used it for a while so I kicked in some money.
Toronto/GTA? Canadians could use good Internet access too!
More likely a "negotiable opening offer".
Nick Frost as Harry Mudd?
Finally some Clue (TM) out of the Redmond mothership!
In a subscription model, M$ does NOT have to tempt the users with "new features" to get you to buy their software, so there's no impetus to "change everything for the sake of change" and the abominations that are Me, Vista, "ribbons" and 8 should not happen anymore.
The initial cost of Windows drops to zero: Why would the mothership bother charging for it up front? The first hit is always free!
Since M$ is getting paid for every Windows system running, they can actually FIX the security problems in Windows instead of insisting that we all have to upgrade so they can make money. They will be able AND motivated to keep supporting older versions for much longer. Less retraining and hassle for the end users, and more stable and reliable systems for users and businesses to depend on.
Businesses have been doing it this way for years now, and they like it.
The "Security Industry" makes money for the shareholders selling "stuff". Any time they see a problem, they will treat it as an opportunity to sell more stuff, since that is how they make money. If the problem is because the customer has already bought too much stuff, they will still try to sell the customer more stuff since THAT IS WHAT THEY DO.
So if you want to be secure, what do you do? We all know: You get rid of crappy software, simplify your systems, remove unnecessary cruft and hire developers, network systems people and architects who can build you what you need securely. You do NOT hire the cheapest meat puppets who can find the company website and spell "javascript" and you don't outsource your security to the lowest bidder.
This requires real effort on the part of the company paying for all this: They need to recognize that the "Security Industry" and their shiny, happy sales droids are just parasites ripping off the public with the "latest and greatest security stuff that will really protect you this time I promise not like all the other times, I really really mean it THIS time!".
They really need to understand that the RIGHT way to GET Security is to design it in, have the right people building and managing it and proper oversight over all of it. To do that you have to treat it as a profession and a core part of what the company does, not as a "service" or "product" that can be "bought in" or "outsourced" to a low bidder.
Security needs to be treated as a profession in any company with a significant cyber presence, just like the accounting them, the legal team and the core business functions. Pretending it's "just something that we can buy from a vendor" is short sighted and ignorant.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
90% of motorcyclists are perfectly reasonable people who ride motorcycles with the original quiet mufflers, or a reasonable muffler that is not a lot louder. The 10% of cretins who ride with earsplitting open pipes are the MINORITY. Don't think that because they make 90% of the noise that we're ALL like that.
I've ridden 40,000 miles on motorcycles in Canada and the USA and I always had a reasonably quiet muffler. So please don't keep spreading the lie that "90%" of us are lowlifes: There's probably a MUCH higher percentage of politicians and bankers who deserve culling than motorcycle riders!
I think everyone else was paralyzed with the shock of seeing such "blinding common sense" come from a government institution. You were the first person to recover from the shock, so you get first post.
Very well said indeed. Please allow me to say "Me too!".
Call me when this helps get my LUGGAGE to the same airport as me.
You got your compiles back the NEXT day? Bloody luxury!!
At my high school, we had to write our own programs, punch them ourselves and submit. We then had to wait 2 days to see if they compiled!
You young whippersnappers with your fancy "gcc" have it so much better! And get off my lawn!!!