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Late Night Thoughts

I just had a thought about this guy that was in a diversion class I attended years ago. The premise of the class is to learn what you did was wrong, so they had you go around and tell everyone what you did. Most of the stories were typical—food from Walmart, CD’s, etc. Then we get to this guy. He says he worked for one of the big cell phone carriers in the state. He’s about to hit his threshold where he’s guaranteed retirement, and they lay him off. Now he’s been working for this company for 15+ years…so what does he do? He uses his vast knowledge to crash the network. Whatever he did, he messed it up so badly that the service was down for 2 weeks. Probably cost that company millions, maybe tens of millions, of dollars in revenue. Because they didn’t want to pay his benefits.


I just had a thought about this guy that was in a diversion class I attended years ago. The premise of the class is to learn what you did was wrong, so they had you go around and tell everyone what you did. Most of the stories were typical—food from Walmart, CD’s, etc.

Then we get to this guy. He says he worked for one of the big cell phone carriers in the state. He’s about to hit his threshold where he’s guaranteed retirement, and they lay him off. Now he’s been working for this company for 15+ years…so what does he do? He uses his vast knowledge to crash the network. Whatever he did, he messed it up so badly that the service was down for 2 weeks. Probably cost that company millions, maybe tens of millions, of dollars in revenue. Because they didn’t want to pay his benefits.

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