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I once got let go from a company, and then, 2 weeks later, they offered to re-hire me. They acted like they were doing me a favor, boasting that they'd even pay

I once got let go from a company, and then, 2 weeks later, they offered to re-hire me. They acted like they were doing me a favor, boasting that they'd even pay me the same salary. I declined, as I was planning on quitting anyway. Then, a few days later they sent me a threatening letter, claiming I stole company proprietary data, and they were gonna report the situation to the district attorney if I didn't contact them. I didn't respond and never heard from them again. I heard from former colleagues that no one knew the admin passwords for their critical systems except me. That's true. I told management, over and over, that the whole sysadmin operation revolved around me, which was doomed to fail. That's actually why I was planning on quitting. Oh yeah, when they let me go, I offered to stay on for a short time to cascade to whoever was gonna replace me. They declined and rushed me out the door.

scarab92 2y ago
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- random42_ 2y ago
  I don't think they ever said they knew they were the only one to know the admin passwords. Looks like they've heard it from former colleagues after they left: > I heard from former colleagues that no one knew the admin passwords for their critical systems except me And looks like they tried to address the fact that the entire sysadmin operation depended on them and management did nothing? That's a lot of hostility and assumptions about some person on the internet and by the looks of it I'll make the assumption you've never worked on chaotic places where management is just shitty? I'm in the same situation at my company where I'm the only person managing our legacy CI/CD pipelines which are quite complex and nobody wants to learn it and management keeps saying they'll hire somebody as backup but they never do so I can relate to parent.
- jimt1234 2y ago
  Hmmm. Not exactly. I did give the admin passwords to others (rotated every 90 days), like my manager, but I guess they never wrote them down or otherwise stored them. I also maintained operational documents for the systems, but was told to just keep them on my PC, since I was the only one that would read them. I always viewed my termination as a version of the "sysadmin paradox". If a sysadmin does her job poorly, stuff breaks a lot, and she gets to save the day - she's the hero! Everyone recognizes her awesomeness. However, if she does her job well, nothing ever breaks, everything is quiet, no heroism - well, someone in management will eventually think she's useless and eliminate her position. I think that's what happened in my case. I took pride in the "quietness" of my systems, and I think someone took that as my job being unnecessary. https://blog.devolutions.net/2017/07/sysadminotaur-61-the-sysadmin-paradox/ https://blog.devolutions.net/2017/07/sysadminotaur-61-the-sy...
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random42_ 2y ago
I don't think they ever said they knew they were the only one to know the admin passwords. Looks like they've heard it from former colleagues after they left: > I heard from former colleagues that no one knew the admin passwords for their critical systems except me And looks like they tried to address the fact that the entire sysadmin operation depended on them and management did nothing? That's a lot of hostility and assumptions about some person on the internet and by the looks of it I'll make the assumption you've never worked on chaotic places where management is just shitty? I'm in the same situation at my company where I'm the only person managing our legacy CI/CD pipelines which are quite complex and nobody wants to learn it and management keeps saying they'll hire somebody as backup but they never do so I can relate to parent.
jimt1234 2y ago
Hmmm. Not exactly. I did give the admin passwords to others (rotated every 90 days), like my manager, but I guess they never wrote them down or otherwise stored them. I also maintained operational documents for the systems, but was told to just keep them on my PC, since I was the only one that would read them. I always viewed my termination as a version of the "sysadmin paradox". If a sysadmin does her job poorly, stuff breaks a lot, and she gets to save the day - she's the hero! Everyone recognizes her awesomeness. However, if she does her job well, nothing ever breaks, everything is quiet, no heroism - well, someone in management will eventually think she's useless and eliminate her position. I think that's what happened in my case. I took pride in the "quietness" of my systems, and I think someone took that as my job being unnecessary. https://blog.devolutions.net/2017/07/sysadminotaur-61-the-sysadmin-paradox/ https://blog.devolutions.net/2017/07/sysadminotaur-61-the-sy...
- scarab92 2y ago
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