Medghyne Calonge was found guilty of one count of intentionally causing damage to a protected computer, one count of accessing a protected computer and recklessly causing damage, prosecutors said.
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The same thing happened out at the Safeway Warehouse where I worked. She deleted the entire computer system and idled thousands of workers with the press of a key
With the system down, we couldn't pick orders, we couldn't receive freight and the stores couldn't order. We'd come in and sit around for 12 hours waiting for the system to be restored, and that went on for the better part of a week.
When it did come back up, we stayed on 12-14 hour days for another week playing catch-up.
Yah, what she did will probably make her unemployable for near forever, but the employer may be at fault too. At the same time she was informed of her termination, her access to any and all parts of the It system should have been blocked.
ReplyDeleteYou fire them
DeleteCollect their keys
walk them out
Disconnect their desktop/laptop
Delete their access
At no time after being terminated are they to be alone on the property
Perhaps the most infamous disaster for employers not handling an employee termination correctly, look up PSA flight 1771. That aircraft came down just a bit more than a mile from my home.
DeleteWe used to have to disable access to the computer system at the same time the employee was being told they're fired. Especially when it was a programmer or systems person. Your biggest threat in computer security is nearly always from inside, whether it's intentional or just stupidity. Terri
ReplyDeleteTerri, why do you post anonymously but sign your name?
DeleteI'm hoping she replies with BFYTW
DeleteFor me, I'm not ashamed of what I post on this site but don't like google linking to my personal life. I use anonymous id but sign my name to prevent the linking. Yes, I know I can use the url link too.
Delete"The same thing happened out at the Safeway Warehouse where I worked"
ReplyDeleteThe irony being is that Safeway is "known" for their technology.
I have a feeling that Safeway's technology is far more efficient than are California's Employment Development Department and Department of Motor Vehicles.
Deletehow do you pronounce Medghyne?
ReplyDelete"Med Error"
DeleteI agree but that's not as bad as some I've seen. My biggest peeve is Nguyen, which is supposedly pronounced 'win'. I always say 'goo-yen' because those are our letters, not vietnamese chicken scratch! I think they do that just to f*ck with us!
DeleteBitch!
DeleteJust ask Alexia, 9Booger. Oh wait you have to say the name first to get the answer. OK, just go to any street in East Sait Louis with "Medghyne" printed on a large Col. Sanders Chickin' Nugget box. You'll get the answer pronto.
DeleteThis is the toughest "Guess the Race" in a long time.
Deletehttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=Medghyne+Calonge&iax=images&ia=images
Irrespective of how it's spelled, it's pronounced as, Guess The Race.
DeleteSo she was fired for inability to meet the minimum job requirements. What in tarnation did the job involve? According to her web page using her own name as the address, her academic achievements are notable. The same for her Linked In profile.
Typical female. So blinded in her fury over being rejected that she shoots herself in the foot. But it's okay. She's a woman. She will cry in court to gain sympathy and no other woman on a jury will ever convict her.
ReplyDelete"It's a man's world." Sh-yeah, right!
...and that's why companies should do nightly backups of all of their data, then ship the resulting files offsite. People like us should do monthly or more frequent backups of their files so that you don't lose stuff if your computer has a non-recoverable crash or gets infected with a data destroying virus. Website owners should also probably do daily backups.
ReplyDeleteNemo
HR person, soooo "woke" the real person came out. HR people today are the worst people to have employed. All about diversity and other shit that kills a company.
ReplyDeletePutting the "Hormonal Rage" in "HR".
DeleteThere are no doubt, decent, fair-minded people in private sector HR, but from my experience in large corporations, HR depts. are led by vanguards of the diversity, 'woke' industry.
Deletetake a look ..... most of the petit tyrants in gov, education and business are womyn
Deletethe 19th was a huge mistake
It's been over ten years since I retired, but what was an HR employee doing with that kind of computer access in the first place?
ReplyDeleteI've seen HR call in a ticket for someone to come and take a CD out of the tray on their computer.
I hate HR people.
That's no lie. Paul, head of IT at a mid-size city, would tell of having city departments call because their computers weren't plugged in or the surge protector had been turned off.
DeleteMy ex was long time HR. I was self-employed. We fought like cats and dogs. According to her, not a damn thing any gov worker did was wrong. She fawned over the effeminate homo they hired who, not having any real skills, was the token 'diversity'. She wasn't alone in that; all in HR and other departments like Finance, would jump on me like a mob if I said something they didn't agree with. It was either 100% all aboard with them or bear their culminated wrath and long lived hatred.
Every where I worked HR Director was female and they hired females. All bitches and no reason for it. They were power hungry assholes and seemed to hate men and women equally.
ReplyDeleteA HUGE percentage of upper management has NO IDEA how IT and computer systems work. To them it might as well be voodoo. That means they are at the mercy of the people they hire to run those systems. A person high enough up the IT management chain with decent skills can EASILY side step any efforts by uninformed people to prevent access. This is especially true in smaller companies that are not tech oriented where they only have a tiny number of people responsible for the computers....sometimes just one or two.
ReplyDeleteI was a software developer in complex environments for many years. At one company, mots of the staff were computer illiterates. We all had to participate in computer based training about using our computers. The last year I had to take this crap (I am retired now), I sent an email to the HR help desk saying that next year, they should send me a loaded .45 and just direct me to eat a bullet. I got a one word response: "Ouch".
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