I used to work management for a small amusment park. Every Friday they had a senior management meeting, leaving one of the operations supervisors like me in charge. The standing rule was, you don’t interrupt this meeting for anything but a fire or a dead employee. The meeting ran from 3-6pm, shift change was at 5pm
My fantasy was always to, call and cancel the entire night crew, and have day shift do a full close out on the registers instead of a shift change closeout.
The looks on the faces when they came downstairs to a cleaned, powered down, and closed park at 6pm on a Friday night would have been priceless.
[QUOTE=Chimera]
For six months, I had consulting firms calling me about filling this very specific contract using very specific software, for which I was the only trained person within 300 miles. “Oh gee sorry, I don’t think they want me back there.” I hope they never got that project working. Would have served them right.
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The proper answer is, sure I can help you, but I have become an indepentent consultant. For $1,000 a day plus expenses I can happily come solve your problems.
Chimera Consulting is born.
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
The project leader of the consulting group called me back as I was friendly with him, apparently, I made the BA nervous and she was afraid I was going to do something. I laughed and told the project leader, that I was just happy to be free of the place. I just needed to drive in and pick up my stuff.
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I put in a 30 day notice at my last regular job (self employed now). I was let go with full pay for the last week even though they had failed to find a replacement yet. They too were worried that I would “do something”. My level of access to our inventory and being one of the 3-4 people in the company of 4,000 who understood our inventory systems scripting functions, would have enabled me to scramble the locator system of every warehouse in the western US if I wanted to and since it was a script doing it, the transaction logs would read that the task was performed by an internal update process, not a specific user.
A billion dollar a year business brought to its knees by one disgruntled employee, ooooh the powah!!
[QUOTE=drachillix]
I put in a 30 day notice at my last regular job (self employed now). I was let go with full pay for the last week even though they had failed to find a replacement yet. They too were worried that I would “do something”. My level of access to our inventory and being one of the 3-4 people in the company of 4,000 who understood our inventory systems scripting functions, would have enabled me to scramble the locator system of every warehouse in the western US if I wanted to and since it was a script doing it, the transaction logs would read that the task was performed by an internal update process, not a specific user.
A billion dollar a year business brought to its knees by one disgruntled employee, ooooh the powah!!
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The irony is, in my case, I doubt I could have done anything worse to them, then they had already done to themselves.