This is funny... I thought I was the only one who did this. I work in an org of over 1000 people and have found doing a programmatic dump of the org chart gives me insights I would never get from reading our status update. Often it is the only way I learn about colleagues who have left (and returned!) because not everyone sends goodbye messages or even has the opportunity to.
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#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We're talking hundreds of static sites where he took the all the design docs and static HTML/CSS/JS files one would need to recreate them somewhere else. You make it sound like he poached your clients or extorted your company. As they didn't go after him legally, I assume that didn't happen. I assume all the files are on a thumb drive in his drawer, unopened, just in case he wants to remember how "that cool animati…
One thing I noticed is we got in the last few years a lot stories of the form "Adobe donates Photoshop 1.0 source code to Computer History Museum, saved because early programmer kept it on a floppy disc in his house". Or games especially we get a lot of this. It feels like if an employee did this with modern projects, they would at the very least be summarily fired, if not have legal action taken against them.
These days, we use centralized source control, instead of emailing zip files and patches back and forth. Having all the source on a random piece of media was a lot more normal back then.
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#363Layoffs in the WFH era are weird. Back in the day you had a pretty good idea of who got laid off because you saw them walking out the door with a box of their stuff. You could go up to them and say, "hey let's meet at $local_watering_hole and hang out". You could swap contact info if you didn't already have it. You could get closure. Now, one day a bunch of people just stop replying to email. You have a to wait a whi…
There’s also Blind, but only if you’re on it before the layoff: you need access to your company email account to create an account.
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#364Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would anyone consider a company provided messaging service as private? Or even a company provided laptop, cellphone, etc.
Because private messages carry an expectation of privacy. They're different parts of speech from the same root word, after all.
The only expectation of this is in your head. It is a fantasy that doesn't exist.
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Top search result is from Gartner: alarm bells ringing. Data loss prevention seems to be enterprise speak for doing as much intrusive monitoring you can do, in as neutral speak as possible. 1984 is so appealing for so many people, it seems like it is just a book about the tendencies that power can take when it is not guided by sane principles. I have always been employed in a high trust capacity since I was a young a…
Every so often a client asks if we are using a DLP, and if not, why not. All the DLPs rely on, effectively, regular expression searches of traffic. This is fine if what you need to protect are SSNs, phone numbers, credit card numbers... but if your data is not easily recognized that way, they don't work. If you ask the DLP vendors about their threat model -- and the salespeople generally don't know what a threat mode…
> Hopefully you can spot the non-DLP prevention mechanisms for all of these...
What is it?
Re: Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
#366Just be aware that your company will be logging this behavior and it will seem suspicious. They can make a good case for termination with this evidence.
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#367Not a WFH thing. This is a USA thing!! Edit: OP said "Layoffs in the WFH era are weird" Yes they are, but people here don't suddenly go offline quite as weird is what I was trying to get at. Here in Sweden if you are FTE there is usually a 1-3 month layoff period (upppsägningstid) where you work and get paid still. At the end of the period you leave. People usually email the team and even the entire company with "hey…
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39311754)
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#368Re: Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
#369I postulate that if your company uses LDAP, and you are here on HN, you're going to be laid off within the next 12 months. The existence of LDAP at a company implies that the company is likely highly um "mature" and isn't amenable to the kinds of hackers who have actual interest in the programming field.
Re: Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
#370Layoffs in the WFH era are weird. Back in the day you had a pretty good idea of who got laid off because you saw them walking out the door with a box of their stuff. You could go up to them and say, "hey let's meet at $local_watering_hole and hang out". You could swap contact info if you didn't already have it. You could get closure. Now, one day a bunch of people just stop replying to email. You have a to wait a whi…
There are no more people in that process, just “resources” that you “let go”. Welcome to 2024.