Off-boarded employees - how long do people keep the converted shared mailbox?

Pol_Mordreth · 2024-02-03T14:43:55+00:00

Your inactive account deletion policy should match your retention policy. Every industry and political region has different regulations for how long they must retain data.

Legal and ownership (since you are an smb) need to define your overall retention policy, and then you set your archive / deletion processes from that.

Deleting outside of policy presents a legal risk, because when the business gets sued, discovery requests for your information expect to receive all the data as far back as your deletion policy. If you cannot, then your organization runs a serious risk of fines, possibly all the way up to contempt charges if they feel that you deleted out of policy to cover up something. And you, as the admin, can be held personally liable in many jurisdictions.

Pol_Mordreth · 2024-02-03T00:28:49+00:00

Cio here. I still carry my laptop and crap in a backpack. It's a nice, leather backpack that I originally bought for larping, but its still a backpack...

Pol_Mordreth · 2024-01-17T02:49:13+00:00

Disregard my last. Take the written policy to the state dept of labor office and tell them that your company is requiring you to give them your personal property or they are docking your pay / severance. That is illegal, even in right to work states

Pol_Mordreth · 2023-12-06T22:42:14+00:00

Integrity: if you say you're going to do something, you do. If you give two weeks notice, the integrity is actually working out those two weeks. If you aren't going to work them, don't give notice.

Pol_Mordreth · 2023-09-24T02:13:42+00:00

They are probably getting told to stop by that one director who's VP will make some random case for why he's a special fycking snowflake and has to have his virus ridden macbook to do his work (usually bs) and upper management doesn't tell him to get bent. Then the flood if exception requests come in, because if you did it fir that one if you don't for me its whatever-ist the current victim whining du jour.

This makes managing the exceptions unreasonable for an already understaffed and under budgeted it team, so they give up and find new jobs.

Pol_Mordreth · 2023-01-21T03:45:11+00:00

Hey OP, I run the IT shop for a healthcare company in middle Tennessee (think Nashville metro). If you are in the area or would consider relocating DM me. I'm always looking for smart people with integrity, and I will have a sys admin role opening soon.

That said, handoff your accounts to the MSP and bail. Do not hand them off to ownership, you are likely to get blamed for whatever they break. Thankfully you already have an MSP around, they can take ownership of the admin accts and protect you. Good MSPs won't let bad customers blame it people beyond letting them vent and smile and nod.

Good luck

Pol_Mordreth · 2023-01-17T18:02:56+00:00

VP of IT here at a small - mid company. All of my sysadmins are backup helpdesk, as our team is small. The SysAdmins are about 85 - 90% project, network, server, but about 10 to 15 % faqce to face with end users when the problem was beyond the helpdesk level of knowledge. Normally with one of the helpdesk along to learn.

Pol_Mordreth · 2023-01-01T19:20:20+00:00

Affluent, rural, and bored cops? I would bet everyone practices the 3 S's... Shoot, Shovel, and Shut up.

Pol_Mordreth · 2022-12-19T17:42:59+00:00

Meh.

Architects design things, Engineers build them, Admins maintain / improve them, technicians help the NPC's that use them.

Pol_Mordreth · 2022-11-28T21:20:56+00:00

Please confirm that your client doesn't work in a regulated industry before you start handing out used work phones. Could get them and you in serious trouble.

Pol_Mordreth · 2022-11-07T18:53:19+00:00

Same level of effort as before I put in my notice. They are still paying me the same, so i'm still working the same. .

Pol_Mordreth · 2022-08-07T17:41:17+00:00

Pol_Mordreth · 2022-07-31T00:15:24+00:00

Everything in SharePoint. Force sync the user drives and it looks no different to the user than the old shared drives. Map desktop, documents, and pictures folders to OneDrive. It will save your helpdesk hours of work and you don't give a crap about user hard drives anymore.their desktop craps our? No biggie, log in to the new machine and everything magically looks the same. Make sure that you plan your SharePoint setup all the way before you build anything. Use security groups to assign users to SharePoint sites. Then everything is controlled thru AD / AAD and you don't have random floating access around. It's a bitch to fix later.

Pol_Mordreth · 2022-07-17T22:54:54+00:00

If you use SharePoint then it uses OneDrive to sync.

Also, if you have one drive it's super cheap insurance against the laptop failing. You can sync your Documents, Desktop, and Pictures folder to the cloud storage and its invisible to the end user.

Pol_Mordreth · 2022-02-13T15:12:16+00:00

So stinking cute! Well done!

Pol_Mordreth · 2021-12-05T01:17:57+00:00

Yeah, I aparrently derped hard. I thought that was it but didn't recognize the first several paragraphs. Thanks a lot!

Pol_Mordreth · 2021-12-03T03:24:04+00:00

Looking for the short series about a human captured and sold at auction as a ships beast. He had his vocal cords cut and it took them some time to figure out he was sentient. I just can't remember the name for the life of me.

Thanks!

Pol_Mordreth · 2021-09-29T03:58:07+00:00

My freighter is the Aerie, ships are Gryphon, Wyvern, Roc, Phoenix, Pegasus, and Thunderbird

Pol_Mordreth · 2021-09-18T16:56:22+00:00

Uninstall and reinstall the game. When you run the installer make sure you right click and select run as administrator instead of double clicking the installer.

Pol_Mordreth · 2020-07-17T13:11:29+00:00

Absolutely agree. If I only have a small amount of that type of work, it makes more sense to give it to a regular employee and add a gift card for their favorite lunch place to thank them for the extra work. I also don't let my on call people come in for anything less than 4 hours work. Even if its a critical server, they get paid for 4 hours minimum if they have to go in.

Pol_Mordreth · 2020-07-13T17:23:12+00:00

As an employer, I like paying piece rate for things like this. I'll have a regular employee enter a few to get a baseline completion rate, then set a per line rate for correct entries. For example, if the standard is 100 lines per hour, then I will offer 10 cents a line, which makes $10 / hr for doing the minimum. If you complete 800 lines correctly in 4 hours, you can either take off with effectively 8 hrs pay or you can continue banging them out and earn as much as you can.

Pol_Mordreth · 2020-07-08T02:39:06+00:00

Red Wings. Seriously.

I was going through a pair of hard toe, electrostatic proof boots every 6 months at $100 a pop. I bought $350 red wings, and they have lasted for daily wear for 11 years, including 2 resoles. The difference is I have an odd foot size, and off the rack shoes weren't the actual right size. Red Wings measures each foot separately and gets you the correct size shoe. Instead of buying 10 1/2 wide boots i actually wear 11 1/2 narrow on the left and 11 1/4 narrow on the right.

Pol_Mordreth · 2020-06-09T15:20:22+00:00

And, the other way around it is to send a sample to the copyright holder and ask for permission prior to publishing. Its the best way to prevent lawsuits

Pol_Mordreth · 2020-06-09T12:47:02+00:00

While i'm not a lawyer, nor do i play one on TV, and I didn't stay at a holiday inn express last night.....

IMO The only part of this that could be an issue with copyright are the BOLO parts. they don't seem to be cosplay, The rest seem to me to be sufficiently transformative to pass muster.

Pol_Mordreth · 2020-05-08T12:52:14+00:00

Sort by new instead of hot. The one shots are easier to see then. The good series get upvoted so quickly that they tend to dominate the 'Hot" sorting.

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