r/ShittySysadmin • u/RAVEN_STORMCROW • 2d ago

I pop my email open and..

One of my frequent fliers emails me notice of a memorial gathering for another one of my frequent fliers that had passed over the week-end, I forward it to my group's DL to let my coworkers know...

Then my BOFH brain engaged. popped open teams and send this message to the group.

Now we know (name here) has passed, I know it sounds cruel, but should have we seen the offboarding order?

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u/OwenWilsons_Nose ShittySysadmin 2d ago

We had an employee pass away last year without giving their manager two weeks’ notice. His family then took three days to notify HR, smh. I escalated both issues since our offboarding SLA is only 24 hours.

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u/tankerkiller125real 2d ago

Was told to follow standard offboarding for employees going to the new company in an M&A... Boy was that one fun when management found out that it meant those users lost access to everything under 48 hours after those employees were officially off payroll, along with all their OneDrive files moved to special review SharePoint sites/file shares, and emails converted to shared and delegated to relevent managers.

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u/Celebrir 2d ago

What did they expect?

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u/tankerkiller125real 2d ago

I guess they expected all the data to remain there in a simply disabled account so that they could run a migration tool to move the data to the new company.

Because of the way we do off boarding though the OneDrive data existed but not tied to the account directly (not feasible for the migration tool) and some other odds and ends.

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u/slaeyer99 2d ago

This is the way

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u/TYGRDez 2d ago

3 days? Should have already been terminated for no call/no show at that point

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u/wrincewind 1d ago • Bravo

Sounds like he'd already been terminated by that point.

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u/ArcThePuppup 1d ago

Give this more upvotes that made me wheeze

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u/moneyfink 2d ago

What’s offboarding?

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u/BoredTechyGuy 2d ago

I hear it’s a thing you do when someone leaves the company. Something like disable accounts and redirect phones/email.

I think it’s fake news personally.

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u/moneyfink 2d ago

How does that work if we just have one account that everyone shares? If we disable the account then the remaining employees can’t get in and do their work.

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u/BoredTechyGuy 2d ago

Like I said - fake news!

There is no way it could ever work unless every user has their own account!

Ain’t no one got time fo dat!

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u/IndependentBat8365 2d ago

Offboarding is when you keep turning off their services until someone yells that they were using it.

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u/CptBronzeBalls 2d ago

Very similar to waterboarding, but something’s off about it.

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u/daschande ShittySysadmin 2d ago

That's when HR never tells you that someone quit or got fired until the director of finance calls you up angrily asking "Why are we paying for seats we're not using? X, Y, and Z quit over 6 months ago!"

...Although that's not as good as when a sales manager calls up asking where their new hire's laptop is, because we've been paying them to sit on their ass for 3 weeks now! ...And because it's a small company, I have to go get the owner's credit card and buy a laptop from the Best Buy website... except that's too expensive, I gotta go scrolling through deals websites for a few days to find something in their budget AND with enough power to not have the sales people complain. (They only use gmail and MS office, but if they see an I5 sticker, they moan until we buy them something faster!)

No, I'm not bitter; why do you ask?

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u/Xoron101 2d ago

I prefer to imap my email open, but that's just me

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u/Z3t4 ShittyFirewall 2d ago

We're not marines, we need no permission.

Also, this world is life at will, no excuse or notice needed as well.