Rogue system admin shuts down servers and deletes core files on the day he is fired, now...

[drjekelmrhyde]

TOTAL Middle management failure.

• at no time does ONE individual own the keys to the kingdom
• inadequate backup-recovery plan that was not written, not exercised, not tested
• missing audit for active logins and person assigned
  
• worthless HR department for not preparing the manager & staff for the dismissal

Sometimes these companies reap what they sow - - incompetence.

Come on dude, we are talking about a company that specialises in making boots not a bank or huge IT company.

Up to $1800 boots.

 

[drjekelmrhyde]

My bad Up to $13,000 boots

 

[Uncle Al]

It's a shame they aren't equally tough on so many CEO's that loot their companies to the point of bankruptcy, leaving their employee's without jobs, stollen pension funds and their lives destroyed. What's good for the goose is certainly good for the goose keeper!

 

[daorbed9]

I can understand the fine but 10 years seems a bit much.

Screw that, hes a low life. He hurt other peoples lives. You should take your responsibility seriously when you have peoples businesses in your hands. This can hurt many people beyond what you see. Being an adult means learning how to take punches. He obviously wasn't very good at his job which is even more obvious when you realize he didn't even know how to cover his tracks. Another loser probably blaming the system for his failures.

 

[cliffordcooley]

And isn't that a wonderful way to spend the rest of your life - hounded for money and legal fees; no one hiring you because of your previous behavior. Shesh! A few minutes of perverted pleasure, a lifetime of pain and sorrow. Think first!

You are weighing the punishment against time not damages. It doesn't matter how much time it took him to do the damages. What matters is the extent of the damages.

 

[daorbed9]

You are weighing the punishment against time not damages. It doesn't matter how much time it took him to do the damages. What matters is the extent of the damages.

Correct. What he did is take income from the company and potentially employees, vendors, salesman etc. That basically equates to theft since the effect is the same.

 

[andy06shake]

10 years in prison seems rather excessive an amount of gaol time.

Christ they hand out 4 year sentences to rapists and this guy is looking at a 10 years stretch for being disgruntled???

The mind boggles, no suggesting letting him off scot free but 10 years is just crazy.

 

[havok585]

A fine is enough, you shouldnt imprison a human being for some lost paper money.

 

[DelJo63]

When?
Where?
How come I have to Google every article to get more details

Because to COPY/PASTE other peoples work is Copyright infringement. Fair Use is to Excerpt info to stimulate interest and then site reference where the excerpt was taken

 

[DJMIKE25]

This is an issue of a company being completely unprepared. I work in IT and any time a sys admin is going to be let go, one of us knows a week in advance in preparation of shutting down internal and external access they may have to any of the systems. This includes changing the passwords for any administrator account. Companies need to be prepared when firing any of their IT administrators. If you only have 1 sys admin, bring in a contractor in the interim so that you are aware of what your plan needs to be.

 

[Brock Kane]

Most of us would like to do this to their boss on the last day! But wow! The cost!

The quick thrill, doesn't out weigh the consequences! Ouch! Hard to think clearly when you're so angry!

 

[Technosense]

It's a shame they aren't equally tough on so many CEO's that loot their companies to the point of bankruptcy, leaving their employee's without jobs, stollen pension funds and their lives destroyed. What's good for the goose is certainly good for the goose keeper!

The message is "Don't mess with corporate money slave". The nodding dolts cheering 10 years as a fitting punishment are the most worrisome.

 

[veLa]

This is what happens when you don't treat your IT guy well. Make sure to always let them leave on good terms.

 

[Stewie Griffen]

10 years in prison seems rather excessive an amount of gaol time.

Christ they hand out 4 year sentences to rapists and this guy is looking at a 10 years stretch for being disgruntled???

The mind boggles, no suggesting letting him off scot free but 10 years is just crazy.

I agree 10 years Is too much for this, maybe he should have torched the place and get the ten years for that.
He clearly seems to have a lot more I.T. knowledge than the average laminated script reading phone drone and not all are drones just many.
And as others have posted on this topic what about the C.E.O's and upper level management white collar criminals that destroy so many lives when there company goes pop. They don't seem to be punished and go to jail for 10 or more years. And you can bet your backdoor that they are not living on the streets.

I agree what this guy did was wrong but it has to be compared to the big shots that stay rich and have destroyed 10's of thousand of peoples lives in the way of supers and more.

 

[mojorisin23]

Never make decisions when you're angry, never make promises when your happy.

and never get involved in a land war in Asia

hahahaha

 

[Kibaruk]

Venzor was let go from his position at the company's help desk

I read almost all of the comments, and no one mentions this in anyway. He was not an Administrator, he was a simple Help Desk guy with more time and access than he should've had.

 

[wizardB]

When?
Where?
How come I have to Google every article to get more details

Because to COPY/PASTE other peoples work is Copyright infringement. Fair Use is to Excerpt info to stimulate interest and then site reference where the excerpt was taken

Fair use is also to copy what you've purchase to a different media.

 

[James00007]

We don't really see much information on why this man was fired and what led up to it. The company wants to drag his name through the mud and make an example out of him, but quite likely there is a whole other side to this story.

 

[Kibaruk]

We don't really see much information on why this man was fired and what led up to it. The company wants to drag his name through the mud and make an example out of him, but quite likely there is a whole other side to this story.

In what parallel world is it ok to cripple a company because they fired you? It's like denting a car because it's poorly parked.

 

[James00007]

In what parallel world is it ok to cripple a company because they fired you? It's like denting a car because it's poorly parked.

In the world where we don't know the full story. Either this guy was living the dream and had the most amazing job in the world (unlikely) and he flipped because of the loss, or his life was made a misery everyday till he got fired and retaliated. It's very easy to say you should never do a bad thing when it doesn't involve you and doesn't affect your life (jobs and careers are usually an important part). Don't poorly park, don't treat your employees like crap, don't fire them unfairly. Now sure it could be true that this guy was just nuts in which case then fair enough, but things are rarely this black and white. From a legal point of view there might not be many parallel worlds, from a moral point of view there are many.

 

[andy06shake]

In what parallel world is it ok to cripple a company because they fired you? It's like denting a car because it's poorly parked.

In this world people go about vandalizing vehicles for no reason whatsoever. As to crippling company's, well what good for the goose and all that jazz. I dont agree with what he done nor however do I agree with 10 years in gaol for his crime. Im sure the company was insured.

 

[James00007]

Mindless destruction is of course abhorrible. But as for the denting car analogy, lets say for example you just lost you job and found out you could spend 10 years in prison, then came home and someone had parked over your drive way. There are at least ways to understand how these things reach the point of unfortunate conclusion.

 

[Kibaruk]

Normal people, just so you know, because clearly you don't know what normal people are, live by social rules and law. When one or the other is not ok, there are channels to work it out. What this dude did, was kill someone because -according to some twisted logic behind, I'll go into it- that someone may or may not have stolen something from him.

Was that a valid reason to do so? No it was ducking not. It's dumb when people try to make something illogical logic by justifying said unjustified behaviour. The level of abstraction... oh my...

 

[andy06shake]

Normal people, just so you know, because clearly you don't know what normal people are, live by social rules and law. When one or the other is not ok, there are channels to work it out. What this dude did, was kill someone because -according to some twisted logic behind, I'll go into it- that someone may or may not have stolen something from him.

Was that a valid reason to do so? No it was ducking not. It's dumb when people try to make something illogical logic by justifying said unjustified behaviour. The level of abstraction... oh my...

Normal people, where are they in this day of age?

Don't know whether or not you care to glace out a window but normality has somewhat diminished, the world is a crazy place these days hence the possibility of 10 year gaol sentences for what amounts to nothing more than digital vandalism.

Normal people LoL that will be the day, you would need a normal world first.

 

[Chilkoot XXIV]

So, How does he go about paying the fine ? I mean, He will have very limited options for income the next 10 years and most certainly won't have an easy time getting work in IT after, so how does that work ?

It doesn't. Strangely illogical to me, as well.