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Anecdote: I had to terminate a contractor; he said "ok, I understand, can I just send a quick email to say goodbye?", so I let him walk back to his desk where h

Anecdote: I had to terminate a contractor; he said "ok, I understand, can I just send a quick email to say goodbye?", so I let him walk back to his desk where he typed for a minute. Few minutes later we realised he had run "rm -rf" on the central source code repository. Restored from backup in a couple of hours, but I'll never repeat that experiment.

mawburn 9y ago
Might be an ancedote, but this is exactly why people are escorted out of the building. As much as it sucks, I understand why it's a necessary evil.
- jbergens 9y ago
  It is not necessary, it rarely happens like that in the nordic countries.