[geeks] worst part of the job?

[Fogg, James]

I had to think about this. I guess it depends on the reason the dude was
discharged. Downsizing sucks, political expulsion sucks the most, but paying
for your stupidity doesn't bother me at all (unless the job description was
a bunch of bull).

I have had to expunge users from systems, but it was mostly downsizing.
Honestly, and I hate to admit it, mostly I felt relief that I was doing it
and not having it done to me. We have shaved 50% off the staff in the last
year, so its been bloody. I am in a precarious position, having moved 800
miles and bought a house for this job. If I loose it I'm toast. The good
news is that we are as thin as we can be, and the execs have said so too.
Layoffs now will affect delivery of service.

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Big Endian [mailto:bigendian at mac.com]
~ Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:27 PM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [geeks] worst part of the job?
~ 
~ 
~ I work at $SMALL_COMPANY and they just had me lock all accounts and 
~ change all the passwords on various systems that $JUST_FIRED_GUY had 
~ access to.  I honestly thing this is one of the worst parts of the 
~ job.  I did it a lot at my last job (lots of contract workers who's 
~ projects ended) but they were all contractors that I'd never met.  I 
~ really don't like doing that.  I feel... dirty.  I didn't like the 
~ guy that much, he always bugged us for $STUPID_USER_TRICKS and he was 
~ generally annoying in person too but... I feel bad being an 
~ accomplice in this.  I think that this has been the worst part of 
~ working here (I've done this a few times since I got here, including 
~ the guy I replaced [he got canned about a month after I got here]). 
~ Anybody else feel this way?
~ 
~ daniel
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