As someone who browses new a lot: Honestly wondering why this article and variants is posted so much? It's somewhat old news at this point yet somehow always posted with all different usernames, is someone out there really angry and wants to world to know? There's surely better ways to affect change than an obscure forum ? You should perhaps be petitioning politicians.
> Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison
It doesn't seem like a concerted campaign, these don't look like sockuppet accounts.
I noticed that when any big news comes out, there are always slowpokes posting a dupe. E.g. Elon Musk Twitter deal was submitted countless times for each act of the drama.
One can bring up the issues to employer, the fact that employer doesn't want to do anything about doesn't give one a right to exploit and delete things imo. I would just part ways with the employer or keep notes of whom I notified incase of a scandal.
People need to accept that they dont have a grand purpose. Many times, companies are just checking a box and don’t want you to do your job.
Another example of this are Compliance Officers. A case strengthened New York’s at will employment statute when a compliance officer was fired for raising a compliance issue. Employee lost at trial and on appeal.
> According to the Court, Sullivan’s conduct was not covered under Dodd-Frank because his reporting was internal and he did not alert the SEC or others outside the company about the alleged misconduct. Sullivan did not “claim to have blown a whistle… but only to have confronted [the fund’s president] himself.”
These cases are always more complicated than presented.
Whistleblower protections apply to people who blow the whistle to an outside agency, not idiots who pick fights with powerful people without backup. This is such unfathomable incompetence my first thought was to question whether "compliance officer" was even his actual job title. On that note:
> The Court decided that, unlike the attorney in Wieder, Sullivan’s role in regulatory compliance was not at the core of, nor was it the only purpose of, his job. The court noted that Sullivan’s compliance officer role was only one of the five positions he held, and he was not associated with other compliance officers in a firm where all were subject to self-regulation as members of a common profession, as was the case in Wieder.
I recently investigated someone "fired" from the same position for similar reasons. Realistically, he was laid off as part of an unannounced RIF but played the whistleblower card only after he failed to substantiate claims of race and age discrimination. The DoD was only notified of the supposed compliance failure an entire month after he was let go, and only after two other unrelated defenses failed.
That's true if you're going by what's expected of you.
People do get to live their own lives though. I wouldn't know if the subject of this article regrets it, or if it was worth it for them.
Some of the best people in history believed in their own grand purpose strongly enough to just say "fuck it" and ignore the doubters. Some of the worst people did the same though too, so :shrug: .
> Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31397946
> Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31388012
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