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I had an Exchange Server that had issues, and I didn't have enough hardware to try a backup, I kept telling management... it died, and I was able to recover most, but not all of it.
Shortly thereafter they outsourced IT, and I assume the new crew was able to get the resources to actually fix it.
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I've thought about that before. You get the call. "It's 30 minutes away. I'll be there in 10" If anyone happens to know of a career path or company that does that sort of work I would be interested to hear about it. Bonus points if the pay is half decent.
Blue teaming in big company cyber security teams will get that for you. Not everything is a true positive but it’s always urgent. Pay is decent too.
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> Or rather, how does one avoid getting into this situation. Documentation?
nah. documentation only goes so far. you handle this by having and exercising a disaster recovery plan and having (and listening to) competent people that would spot this issue in a jiffy.
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Op says he did provide documentation but they lost it (and hadn't been backing up) after he left
Of course, but that wouldn't stop them from saying otherwise, suing and binding him in prelonged and expensive legal battle, would it?
I actually don't see any issue that isn't simply a matter of money. Everything they list that's an issue seems to revolve around the fact that the employees with domain knowledge for the system have left the company. Reach out to them and hire them on as contractors. If they left under bad terms because the business was a bunch of dicks, expect to pay 10x market rate. If this is truly "fix this or the business is out…
Throwaway purely so that I can comment. I've had this happen before. Years ago I left a rather awful company - I left on great terms with my boss, though I hated the company. I was the last person who knew how to release X product. While I documented everything, after I left, the wiki lost its mind, backups apparently weren't a thing, and the director of IT moved to Bermuda. Fast forward 6 months.. a contractual obli…
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People have to eat food. Food in aggregate has one of the most inelastic demand curves imaginable. If the price rises because the production costs increase, people will still buy food. They might buy different food, and you'll see a decrease in acreage given over to labor-intensive crops, but that's just the free market at work.
The thing is, if farmers in Australia increase wages and thus their product becomes more expensive, the product on supermarket shelves will not become more expensive. Rather, supermarkets will import food from another country. Food is, with few exceptions, a commodity. The producer does not set the price of the commodity, the market does. I am telling this as an engineer working in the Canada's oil and gas sector. Si…
Of course, you might get pilloried for the artificial scarcity, but hey... nobody ever likes the capitalist :)
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In my EU-centric worldview, the US system of at-will employment, and of two-week notices as the standard courtesy, is crazy. Three months is the typical notice period for tech workers and other highly-skilled jobs. One month is the legal minimum in Sweden, and certainly several other countries. Of course it goes both ways, in fact it's even more difficult for the employer to get rid of an employee. An employee doesn'…
I agree (I am from the UK) when first saw US professional workers complaining about > two weeks my first thought was wow you must have a really low status job.
I’m senior enough that I give at least a month, often more, and this made me realize that I’ve been perhaps overly generous.
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I love this with all my heart. You did exactly the right thing at every step.
Funnily enough it made me sick to my stomach. I manage a small company and the idea of being extorted in such a blasé and psychopathic fashion terrifies me to even think about.
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I love this with all my heart. You did exactly the right thing at every step.
Funnily enough it made me sick to my stomach. I manage a small company and the idea of being extorted in such a blasé and psychopathic fashion terrifies me to even think about.
That's probably what they deserve, if they come asking for a favor and then start getting abusive.
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I imagine if it came down to it they could try to pin it on him and say he didn't provide documentation he said he did, and that's why this entire 10M project now can't be delivered. Luckily for him they decided it's easier to just pay the fee.
Even if they did "pin it on him," why should he care, exactly? Seems to me like he had no obligations here, contractual, ethical, or otherwise.