• frank@sopuli.xyz
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    14 hours ago

    Someone I worked with had a great rage quit. He worked his ass off for the whole year doing insane overtime and sacrificing way too much for a thankless corporation. When it came to raise time, my boss gave him a 0% raise, citing that he already made more than average/benchmark.

    After that meeting he just left. He left all his work stuff on his desk, he didn’t tell anyone he wasn’t coming back from lunch time ish. It took a full month before they stopped paying him, and my boss would come around almost every day to ask if anyone knew where he was or how to contact him. I think they just assumed he was blowing off steam and would come back, meanwhile he moved to another city.

    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      Lovely story… I’ve just found out my healthcare organisation gets its corporate branding wallpaper from an anonymous read blob storage (which I think I can get access to).

      The temptation to fill this with dick pics on my last day is more than I thought. Not ready to retire yet, unfortunately!


      I also hand a workmate when we were both young and this guy was a hot headed young Russian, he’d monitor the borderware firewall logs and counter hack people probing it (back in 2010…). so on his last week I was really worried about what timebombs or other traps he may have set. Turns out the guy was a complete professional (which shouldn’t have surprised me, really - he hated the management but loved the team and wouldn’t have done anything to hurt us)