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Would just increasing the size of the dropbox to keep things muddling along and then trying to figure out a migration strategy come Monday morning be impossible for legal reasons?
It should be noted that the evidence that stress is a primary cause of gastric ulcers has been fairly weak since the discovery of H. pylori, though there is some evidence stress may be a contributing factor.
What are the advantages / disadvantages of going panic mode like this? Would just increasing the size of the dropbox to keep things muddling along and then trying to figure out a migration strategy come Monday morning be impossible for legal reasons?
They didn’t find out until today that a number of senior staff were laid off during the acquisition. Lots of room there for bad feelings. That opens them up to all kinds of vulnerabilities from disgruntled ex employees.
Imagine the repercussions come post-holidays if something bad happens during the next few weeks before everyone is back on board and there’s a security breach over the meanwhile.
- Are we using git or Leif Points for this project?
- eh, how about git?
This story sounds like they also used Leif Points, but for their database :O
That was a cool nightmare scenario story, but holy mother of mercy was it ever tedious to read! I can tolerate some bad grammar, but somehow the combination of incorrect articles, words auto-spellchecked to something completely different, run-on sentences, and lack of punctuation, made it a real chore to read through without getting lost...
I hope the OP writes a book with zero changes to his writing style.
OP, please write that book / collection of stories. Loved reading this, it makes me appreciate the culture and quality of work we have in our company.
I actually have had the reverse experience. My company was acquired 18 months ago. We were the smaller company, about 1/4 the size, and as the founder/CTO, I expected the acquiring company to be all over us. I mean, we had a pretty tight operation but there was only so much 16 people could achieve. There were plenty of things we could improve, and I was looking forward to the resources and experience of this bigger c…
> Service passwords are still stored in clear text in the corporate wiki. I know this painfully well :(. Can you recommend some good solution? Ideally open source and self hosted, instead of cloud password manager.
Because: in this scenario you need to drive adoption first,if it is any complicated the humans will not use it. so you need the easiest tool possible.
when everybody is using it, THEN go for the real security move.
(you can try to find a non-cloud one that is super easy, but...)
What I find interesting is that the “insane asylum” apparently knew that it was wrong. e.g. when asked why they need so much space on their laptops, they were evasive. To my mind this makes it much worse. Not only were they doing something dumb, but they knew it was dumb, and they hid it instead of fixing it. It certainly invites speculation about the company culture in the acquired business.
Based on my experience: IT was well aware it was insane. Alas, IT got absolutely no budget for fixing it from top brass, as kicking the can down the road always made more sense short-term
> 5. Audit has some explaining todo. Yes, that's a total fuck up on their side as well. That an incompetent company dies while doing stupid stunts like that is understandable and how the market filters out stupidity. That another company looks at it and thinks "Oh that looks fine", that's a total failure at their work.
What "audit" are we talking about here, though?
Personally I've never seen one of these discovery phases bring back anything remotely close to real life. No random IT manager alive is going to throw his dirty laundry out to a potential buyer and potentially torpedo a deal.
Some of the things I've seen/found during my company buying spree since 2015 have been magical.
Uh, as much as I enjoy reading this, posting this on Reddit seems particularly unwise for job security purposes. This seems to be an ongoing incident and there's more than enough info shared to de-anonymize.
I’ve come to the assumption that either this happened already months ago, or the much more likely scenario that it’s probably largely fake (if based on a true story)