What I find curious in this article is that they gloss over that this is also a people management problem. Sure you can put restrictive policies in place but apparently things went down at Citibank that caused so much ire for the person in question to take action like that.
I like to think that even though people see sysadmins are grumpy rage-machines in a basement most are super-decent people caring deeply for the systems under their control. Perhaps I've got a too rosy view of my fellow engineers.
I'd be very curious to hear what went on there on the people side of things. What led to this person feeling so angry that they would take an action like this. I'm also curious how it could even get so far. I have the benefit of being able to regularly talk to my manager so even if we did performance reviews in that way they wouldn't come as a surprise.
I like to think that even though people see sysadmins are grumpy rage-machines in a basement most are super-decent people caring deeply for the systems under their control. Perhaps I've got a too rosy view of my fellow engineers.
I'd be very curious to hear what went on there on the people side of things. What led to this person feeling so angry that they would take an action like this. I'm also curious how it could even get so far. I have the benefit of being able to regularly talk to my manager so even if we did performance reviews in that way they wouldn't come as a surprise.