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I worked for a well known company today, many years ago when it was smaller. When the IT team created new accounts for employees, it was the standard Pa$$word p

I worked for a well known company today, many years ago when it was smaller. When the IT team created new accounts for employees, it was the standard Pa$$word password for everyone. It was up to the user to change their password. They had no password rotating rules or requirements. Anyway, many years later after I started, IT hires a person who wants to do good while in IT. This person discovers the CEO is still using the day one password he was given. The IT person decides to email the CTO, the director of IT, and the head of HR warning them the CEO is still using his default password. I’m not clear what exactly the wording was, but the IT person skipping over the chain of command was bad enough it got them fired.

shoo 7y ago
> IT person skipping over the chain of command was bad enough it got them fired. Isn't this roughly the opposite of what you want in an org? Otherwise there can be the failure mode of only good news getting reported up, so the folks running the company base their decisions on finely cultivated bullshit and are completely isolated from reality.
- someonehere 7y ago
  Management in IT was big on chain of command at that time. If the director of IT was insecure and wanted to filter bad news through him before going further up. Because this person went to the director’s boss, it angered the director.