BreakPoint
This is Hooovahh
No it stayed within the company. But I was a bit protective of it. It was off the books, with no asset tracking, and no record of it existing. I could have put it on ebay for money and no one would have known. But it was actually valuable for doing my job and so I used it within the company.
@Hooovahh wrote:
At 5:30PM at the end of the day I sent an email with the office address. When I came in the next morning there was a box on my desk with the new hardware in it. I was shocked. I couldn’t believe that in about 16 hours, this box made it halfway around the world and on my desk.
My guess is that there was one already in your building and they just had to get somebody to find it and put it on your desk. I wouldn't be the first time I've heard of that happening, especially in large companies.
@crossrulz wrote:
My guess is that there was one already in your building and they just had to get somebody to find it and put it on your desk. I wouldn't be the first time I've heard of that happening, especially in large companies.
No this was not the case. It had the shipping labels on it. I want to say it was FedEx but I don't remember, with a tracking number and foreign labels of the country it came from. The hardware was also just released by this company, and our purchasing system is so slow that there was no way someone in our building had one. Heck finding an old version of this hardware is hard to come by in this building.
Hacker-man
During a meeting with IT and an independent auditor, a question was asked about how the IT infrastructure was tested against hacking.
“Do you regularly test your IT infrastructure against hacking?” - Auditor
“No, I don't think so. In what way could we do that?” - IT
“Well, do you hire hackers to try to test the weaknesses of your network?” - Auditor
<Silence while everyone thinks>
“Well yes. They hired me.” - Hooovahh
Digital Bar Jukebox
After work some friends and I would go to local bars in the area. There was one guy in our group that would take over the digital jukebox at the bar and play music just to troll the rest of us. He would pick the songs from his phone so people wouldn’t see him get up and go to the machine. His favorite picks would be Wham, and Men At Work, but it was a lot of 80s music that people knew, but hadn’t heard in at least 20 years. He’d have a huge grin on his face when his songs came on, and the whole bar would usually groan, especially if the song that just played was some kind of death metal. Even on nights when he couldn’t come to the bar he would find out where we were and would pick these songs, knowing we’d be there.
One night we were at a bar and just like usual one of his songs came on, and we all groaned. Then the bartender walked over and unplugged the machine. We were all a bit shocked but laughed. That’s when she realized someone in our group paid to play that song. She explained that teenagers would put on terrible music, then call the bar to ask if their song was playing. She just assumed it was a prank. She felt bad and we got some free drinks out of it.
Chasing Greener Pastures
An employee was working for us who was always concerned about pay. They had expensive tastes and were often taking up side jobs and their spouse was working to help pay for them. One day this employee decided to jump to another department when they saw a job opening. The job was for something this employee had zero experience in and didn’t really know what the job was, in a different department. But since it was an internally posted job anyone applying for it was already at the top of the list since it would be easier than a new hire. So they get the new job with the bump in pay and a new list of responsibilities.
This employee right away realized they needed more training and asked for it from management and they never gave them much. Well they wanted more. So they started looking for work elsewhere. With the new job role on their resume it looked like they were capable of this new work which in reality they were not. They negotiated a big bump in a raise, and a large signing bonus at another company in the area and left.
Well 3 months later he sees a job opening in the original group they were in, in the original company and they apply. On paper they have a strong resume because they worked in the group originally but left for more money. In negotiations it is revealed they want another large bump in pay. After some back and forth management agreed to it. But there was one other sticking point. This employee got a large signing bonus when they started at this new job, on the contingency that they stay at the company for two years, and they would only come back to the original job if they paid a large signing bonus so they could pay back the company before they left…the company said no.
One year later this guy came back and asked for his old job back. They eventually gave it to him but with no raise, no bonus, and seniority along with vacation was reset back to being a new hire. He was bummed but realized that where he was was the right place to be and admitted multiple times he shouldn't have left. Whenever we talked about leaving or looking for other work, this employee would often say “I’m not making that mistake again”.
