Damn Hackers
I received an email last night from the security team at UW informing me that one of my servers had been compromised and that they would be blocking the traffic and that I should rebuild it ASAP. It freaking takes an entire day to backup all the data, reformat the system, install all the patches, send the kerberos ticket to UW, reinstall all the ‘other’ software and services, etc etc..
And all because of what? Some stupid person has nothing better to do then sit in their room and write worms. It just pisses me off - like I had nothing better to do today than rebuild a server. And then I get asked to write a procedural manual on how to fix something like that, so that when I leave “someone” can do that — as well as how to do everything else I do. Right. I’ll try to fit that into my 19.5 hours.
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Haha, man. They’re gonna be so lost without you.
So, what you do is not write the manual. You fill your 19.5 with doing your regular duties. Then, when you leave, you can tell them that you’d be willing to write the manual as contract work. But, you decide to charge them double. See if they want to do it. I mean, what are they going to do, fire you?
Man, that’s a bastard move, but man, that’d be cool…