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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The defendant breached his employer’s trust

  The company breached employee trust when they fired a bunch of people during a “realignment”.

  Four years is far too long. If he had run over the CEO in the parking lot he wouldn’t have gotten four years.

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• wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dipshit. Just do bad coding and leave timebombs that could be considered an accident.

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  • Elechicken@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, there’s a reason he got fired and it wasn’t because he’s a genius…

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, name it after the boss, not yourself!

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• x00z@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For developers in similar situations, where the corporate overlords make your life miserable; use dead man’s triggers Instead of a simple killswitch: manually start handling certificates, introduce memory leaks that you can easily clear, have excessive disk filling logs that you can daily clear, and all kinds of other stuff that is a perpetual dumpster fire that you extinguish as part of your job. Oh, and don’t forget to forget commenting and documenting. The next developer should instantly learn the pressure they have been putting on you.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I’d like to imagine countless instances of this that we never hear about because there just isn’t anything concrete to write a news article about

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Errr

    That’s EXACTLY why I did that in the past. It wasn’t an accident at all. Nope. It was future proofing my job. Completely intentional.

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• AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  company ruins life of employee: stonk

  employee ruin company: immediate imprisonment

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  • SwimmingInTheeStars@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean the guy was just laid off. They didn’t “ruin his life.”

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He was employed for 11 years.

      IDK about you, but if I get laid off, my life changes significantly by the next missed paycheck.

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• roundup5381@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Have to make an example of them lest the surfs realize they have power

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *serfs but yeah

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      * Smerfs

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    • roundup5381@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thought that didn’t look right

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I actually cannot believe you have any upvotes for this type of comment.

    If computers and networking were not involved, and we lived in the 1970s, this would be the equivalent of setting off a remote bomb in every factory across the country for your former company when you get fired.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It is in no way a bomb. If this was the 1970’s, it would be the same as changing the combination on the safe and not telling anyone the combination after being fired.

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And how many people died or were injured? How much damage to property occurred?

      Looks to me like he just wasted time and hurt revenue. That’s not any of the above.

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    • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You live in there modern world and see how things are going and your can’t believe people support the destruction of established systems? Ok.

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• hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  this was stupid. A career ending move. no one’s gonna hire someone who wrote a logic bomb at their last job.

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• tazeycrazy@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No one reviwing his code? Sounds like a timebomb in its self.

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  • andyburke@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This was my first thought. Just zero code review going on? Some random server only that dude knew about? tf kind of controls these people have in place?

    Oh right, none of the shit the company should have had.

    Instead of jail time, the government should consider giving this guy whistleblower status and investigating the corp for negligence.

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• Jimbabwe@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Kinda heroic, ngl. I think the prison sentence is appropriate, but if I was let go after 11 years, I’d harbor fantasies of doing something similar. They’d stay fantasies, though.

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  • al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Prison? For shutting down the computers? How many lives were lost because of his actions, how many were saved?

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    • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know what his former company does, but it’s easy to imagine scenarios on both ends of the spectrum. From processing Bejeweled microtransaction payments to ER intake or ambulance dispatch. Doesn’t really matter in the end. Software is everywhere and we all use it. Unless the company is so bad that damaging it is a political act of defiance against evil (I’m looking at you, Nestle, Blackwater, etc), then there’s really no good argument for employees burning shit on their way out.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good, make sure you document that. Then be sure any such thing that accidentally happens is named after the person who most deserves to be pruned.

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    • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Got it. MouselemmingFromLemmyKillswitch.exe pushed to production

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Kinda funny. 4 years seems excessive to me but what do I know.

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• dastanktal@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is really well executed, too bad he didn’t know enough to protect his identity.

  Still, so much for that reduced cost of labor.

  If more people reacted like this companies wouldn’t be so fast to lay people off

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• lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I imagine you must be quite skilled to be able to manage your whole-ass company (and run their systems into the ground). So it shouldn’t be a problem to get another job after being fired.

  Why fuck with your own life, just because of your own ego and a drive for revenge? That guy must’ve watched too many animes.

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• Florn@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Should have done a dead man’s switch instead

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