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In the late 1990s, user Reddit user u/Psygnal was a compliance officer at a company that helped retail store customers manage their finances.
In their free time, the employee developed a software tool to optimize their work. However, their manager decided to roll out the tool to all staff without their consent, leading to a series of events where corporate intellectual property clashed with employee rights.
The story, which they posted on r/MaliciousCompliance, serves as an important reminder of the importance of standing up for oneself and knowing one’s legal rights in the workplace.
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Apatheist Account2 Apatheist Account2 Community Member Follow
Had something similar in my first company - guy had written a system, which I later took over, with a built-in command to destroy the program a year after he'd left. Fortunately he'd called it "time-bomb.exe", which made me curious enough to look at it; also, it was on a CMS system where it was just a text file rather than a complied executable, so I was able to remove it. At my current company, I've written a macro that will stop working after I retire...that will teach them not to give me a back-dated pay rise that they agreed to in writing...MWAHAHAHA!!
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19 hours? If it is one second a week, that woukd be 52 seconds in a year. To make it easy, I am saying a minute. So 60 minutes would be 60 years. So an hour in 60 years. Or what am I missing? Where are they getting looped for 19 hours? I am not good at math.
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Dee Downes Community Member Follow
It compounds. 5 seconds a week for first week, 6 seconds a week for week 2, etc. Plus, it's multiplied by the number of users.
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michele mbennett1010@att.net michele mbennett1010@att.net Community Member Follow
Ummm....maybe you should have put a bit of ACDC on instead 😂🤣👹👺
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Had something similar in my first company - guy had written a system, which I later took over, with a built-in command to destroy the program a year after he'd left. Fortunately he'd called it "time-bomb.exe", which made me curious enough to look at it; also, it was on a CMS system where it was just a text file rather than a complied executable, so I was able to remove it. At my current company, I've written a macro that will stop working after I retire...that will teach them not to give me a back-dated pay rise that they agreed to in writing...MWAHAHAHA!!
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19 hours? If it is one second a week, that woukd be 52 seconds in a year. To make it easy, I am saying a minute. So 60 minutes would be 60 years. So an hour in 60 years. Or what am I missing? Where are they getting looped for 19 hours? I am not good at math.
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It compounds. 5 seconds a week for first week, 6 seconds a week for week 2, etc. Plus, it's multiplied by the number of users.
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michele mbennett1010@att.net michele mbennett1010@att.net Community Member Follow
Ummm....maybe you should have put a bit of ACDC on instead 😂🤣👹👺
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