• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    652·
    3 months ago

    My dad has been a server engineer for a single company for my entire life and he lived like this up until quite recently. His fear oscillates in magnitude with the success of the industry the company is a part of course so it isn’t always severe but I remember every few years as a kid I’d hear him and my mother murmering about lay offs. These days he just jokes about it being an early retirement

    • travysh@lemm.ee
      3·
      3 months ago

      Yeah this post hit me different than was probably the intent. I’ve been expecting to get laid off for the past 6 months ago, initially it was fear, eventually it was desire. Didn’t happen though and I’ve since found a new job, but I would have welcomed it if it did.

  • SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    3 months ago

    Upside: not fired.

    Downside: have to do work.

    Upside: make money

    Downside: not enough money

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      60·
      3 months ago

      “Why are my employees not respecting me? Why are they unproductive?”

      “Maybe treat them with a modicum of respect?”

      “Must be something in the water.”

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 months ago

    You just captured the daily life of a UK academic after the catastrophically low recruitment numbers this year.

  • JATth@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 months ago

    I do this exact same expression when I’m forced to gain knowledge of something potentially personally catastrophic…

  • bruhbeans@lemmy.ml
    37·
    3 months ago

    I got canned from my last job and thr way I found out was my work Gmail was locked out, fuckin class acts them.

    Getting fired from my current gig would be a relief tbh.

  • KrankyKong@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    I know the feeling. A few months ago I randomly got a video call from my boss. Both he and the owner of the company were in the line. They let me know that they unfortunately had to let go of almost everyone on the dev team. Some funding had fell through (gotta love startups). Fortunately, I got to keep my job that day, but I can’t shake the feeling that another layoff is right around the corner.

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    19·
    3 months ago

    I work in IT. We get notified when people leave.

    The cruelest thing in my company is when we get to know before the person in question…

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
    462·
    3 months ago

    My company has a 6 month probation period. It also has a 6 month password expiry. Because of all the SSO nonsense, it’s quite possible for it to lapse without warning.

    It’s now a running joke that get locked out on the last day of probation, and you’re expecting a call from HR any minute.

      • mkwt@lemmy.world
        97·
        3 months ago

        Current IT best practice is that passwords should never expire on a set schedule, but they should expire if there is evidence they’ve been breached.

        • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
          19·
          3 months ago

          Legit, my old job required a 90-day change, and I once logged into a system I could do monetary damage on with ease, because I took a guess at my manager’s password based on how long it had been since he told it to me during an emergency.

          He did what every single person I spoke to did. “password 01” changed to “password 02” and I just tried twice, and sure enough he had changed it three times since he had told me.

          While I wouldn’t be ruining the company as a whole, I could have easily fucked over the individual location because scheduled password changes just ensure people use predictable passwords.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        When is someone going to find a password but somehow be stopped because it expires in as many as six months? What is it mitigating?

      • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        The current thinking as I understand it is expiry policies make most types of accounts less secure because users just cycle through the same predictable pattern of adding increasing numbers of exclamation points or incrementing the last digit at each required password change, and if you require new passwords to be too substantially dissimilar from x number of previous ones then users can’t remember them at all. Policies that make people use minimally complex passwords because they have too many to remember and don’t understand how password managers work inevitably increase password reuse between services and devices which does the opposite of improving security. Especially with MFA enforced, which I’ve been known to do as aggressively as I can get away with, there’s just no sense in requiring regular password resets – as long as the password remains complex, unique, and uncompromised. I’m not a network security expert but I am responsible for managing these sorts of things in my role and that’s the rationale I use for the group policies in a typical customer’s environment.

        • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
          13·
          3 months ago

          You’re supposed to have controls in place to prevent all of those concerns. I’m not saying passwords should be changed every 30 days, but 6 months is a long time.

          But, companies with password expirations should be providing a password manager.