AWS is down - internet in shambles
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HoodWinked
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Apparently there is some super engineer they call to fix it but he lives on a yacht.
MrTroubleMaker
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nush
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I worked for a company that had one of those guys. Paid a lot worked remotely we had to deal with his challenging personality becuse his skills were that good. However he was gaming the system. What he did was hire "an assistant" who he basically underpaid and outsourced his whole job too while picking up a free paycheque.
This all blew up when coming to the end of a project and going live there were things "the assistant" couldn't fix and it was found out that the guy supposedly doing the work had gone on a cruise and told the assistant to make excuses as to why his boss was not availible at this time.
Fired.
StreetsofBeige
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At least he got found out.
At one of my old jobs a remote sales guy who covered a small account was hard to get hold of since he moonlighted doing contractor work building decks and doing landscaping. Why the hell does this guy hardly ever answer emails and phone calls till the next day or two? No wonder. People found out after he quit for another job as his regional sales buddies who also worked remote told everyone after. By the looks of it maybe 3 other people knew out of the 150 person office. I dont think the company could do anything about it since he's already gone, and they didnt do anything to the people who knew since they kept working there. Not sure if the company can reprimand them for knowing but not telling.
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nush
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Strangely unavailable is one of the tells that remote workers might be up to something like that. One time I worked in a remote office that used to have just one person working from home in the area before the office was setup.
I could see she was upto something as she kept leaving the office for "meetings", stepping outside for phone calls and the like. She'd convinced hated office she was a really hard worker and always working late. But when you filtered here sent emails in Outlook you could see she stopped sending emails at about 5pm (leaving the office early for another "meeting" and then at about 11pm would reply to any email even ones she was just copied into to look like she was working late.
Company found her out about a year after Ieft. She had setup her own supplier to filter all the profitable orders to herself, also making counterfeit products of the companies products. She was the one responsible for gathering suppliers quotes so she edited them to make them more expensive than her own business so she would win. While dumping the unprofitable orders on other suppliers.
StreetsofBeige
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Wow. Hardcore. I read your post from top to bottom and didnt expect that story to unfold.
nush
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I tried to warn the director but he wouldn't even have a private meeting with me when I wanted to let him how I thought something was up with her. When they caught her themselves a year after I left I was told he said " I should have listened to Nush".
I remember another detail, she would not move off her own private email that she was using when she was a solo remote worker, claiming it didn't work when she tried to connect her laptop to the company Email server. In hindsight that was because she didn't want to have to manage 2 email addresses and risk having the company look at what was coming in/out or accidentally not switching email accounts and sending something through the company one.
ForAcademicPurposes
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Nevermind.
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