"Sysadmin's £100,000 revenge after sudden sacking..." Topic

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Not really about revenge, rather about a certain Nottingham gaming company's myopia…

Having been marched into the conference room to be thanked by the company taking over how nice my drawings were so they could make the product instead if us…..
Tee hee

*golf clap*

I worked for a messaging company back in the late 90s. Like all .com companies back then, the ideas were interesting but the company was not well managed. When the inevitable layoffs came here were two stories.

One gentleman ran our LDAP system on AIX, a kind of UNIX supported by IBM. These sorts of administrators were hard to come by back then. They let him go. As it turned out, they started experiencing difficulties with the system. He was the ONLY AIX administrator. When they tried to call him back, he had already accepted another job.

Another gentleman was developing a LDAP user administration application. He was nearly done when they let him go. However, he had the app on his laptop. He erased data on his laptop. A few days later the office called him to ask about the application. Of course, his answer was "What application?"

The moral here is, never let anyone go until you have a full understanding of what they provide for your company. Both of these guys were let go based on salary. They simply made too much.

Kinda the same sort of thing happened to an ex-employee
of mine. I say 'ex-' because I had retired, but he
still worked for that firm, under a different manager.

Prior to my retirement, I called in the new manager and
very carefully explained to her exactly what each person
did, the contribution they made to the bottom line, and
why someone was necessary in each position, and why in
many cases it was the person doing the job 'then'.

A month after I retired, they laid off 3 people, two of
them ex-mine. Shortly after, the company defaulted
on 3 contracts, because the idiot 'new' manager hired
BRAND NEW OUT OF THE BOX people who knew NOTHING about
contract management.

The MD of the company called me and asked me to
intercede with one of my two, who refused to go back
as a contract employee.

The BofH knows all…

My dad had three decades of contacts and information in his safe, when they told him that they would promote his junior instead of him because my Dad would retire in a few years.

He started livening up his Fridays at work with trips to the shredder, and when he left, they got an empty safe and zero institutional knowledge…

Happens in Federal service too at a level you want not to believe.
In a certain field to do a good handover of contacts usually takes (effectively) about 6 months and meetings to instill trust.
How about two days – Here's the folders, I made calls and its all yours…
How productive is that?
I call it typical crisis management as the manager tries to make a crisis for you so they can get their management.

When I retired (was offered an incentive to go) they promoted my Assistant Director to my position (he deserved it). They then eliminated his former position and a director position. About a month after I left I received a call from the boss who asked if I would like to be a consultant. It seems that although my replacement could file reports specific to our department he was not knowledgeable about the reports filed by the other director and those done by me in my broader, non departmental responsibilities i.e. "Gene, you've done these before with other organizations haven't you ? Can you prepare and file them for us?"
At some point they realized that they had eliminated the two administrators with any experience filing federal and state reports and no one else, up to and including the boss, had a clue. I was more than happy to charge them a pretty good fee to do the work.