I really like the sandbox idea. He gets to fuck it up and everybody can watch it. Worst case scenario…he actually learns something. And the bosses can see I tried to give him the tools to work his “magic”. He’ll talk shit once in a while but I couldn’t care less what he says now. I’ve lost any respect I had for him.
You should have kept the USB as evidence, or copied the evidence of attempted theft off of it. You’re unlikely to be able to prove it again now if you let him leave with it, and you just let him know one more thing to try and hide.
It was his USB. I couldn’t keep it. But of course I copied it, I thought that was a given.
That was not available outside of our internal network, and what you actually managed to grab does not pose any risk
It wasn’t even anything. It was my development version running on a browser with placeholder data. The app is my property (sure of it, not getting into details) and was running on my own personal home server (and there’s a good chance it will stay that way). There was nothing there to hide, no sensitive data. He’s so stupid he actually thought it was anything important and that he could even get anything useful by saving it to his USB. It’s quite funny if you don’t take it too seriously.
Start keeping a journal of all your interactions with him. Neutral, positive, and negative. Time, date, and one to three short dispassionate sentences.
Will do. But I don’t think he’s asking anything else after I put my foot down. Maybe I’ll follow u/Optional advice and set him a sandbox to fuck around. When do you think I should show that journal to our boss? What’s the line he needs to cross?
Of course he’s badmouthing me. But what can I do about it? If I go down to his level he’ll beat me out of experience and sheer talent.
Maybe you are right, and leaving a paper trail with complaints can be helpful, especially in a larger entity. But in a smaller place, with these kind of games, the one who blinks first looses. So…I don’t know what to do.
I’m a public worker, they can’t fire me without cause. The boss likes him but he knows how much I know about IT. He always comes to me when something is serious. If Jimmy goes against me in a IT matter the boss WILL listen to me first. Unlike Jimmy, the boss knows jack about IT…but he knows how little he knows.
He has no access to anything critical. And he never will unless the bosses tell me to. Until then, I AM stopping him. If they tell me to give him access he will break stuff but then it’s not my problem. But somehow I think they’re not as stupid as forcing me to give him access. They might like him but I think they know better than to mess with my directions regarding IT.
They won’t suffer consequences because he is not even competent enough to break anything I work on. Short of actually physically breaking it. I have everything quite secure. My own development code only runs on my home server and all the commits are documented on github. My work laptop is always locked and, even if it wasn’t, he wouldn’t even know where to look in a Laravel project. The stuff in production runs on site in machines only I have access. They could make me give it to them, but then it would be off my hands. Even with credentials he wouldn’t be able to navigate a headless Debian server.
The most he can do is annoying me. This isn’t so much on what he did, but what he had the intention of doing. I’m tempted to make a complain to the bosses but, as you all know, sometimes the ones who complain get labeled as the trouble makers. This is my dilemma since I know he is well liked by the leadership. And while they respect my capabilities he might’ve already convinced them he’s on the same level. By complaining I’m taking a chance.
But what can I do, short of complaining to the bosses?
This guy has ruined satire news…
Yes, I’m going to do that. The SSH connection is not 100% perfect but I can just set an option on grub that starts without the DE
He got a keyboard and mouse and connected it to the computer.
TIL that there are GUIs for nginx.
I think there are. Via browser. But I can be mistaken.
Tbf polar bears are op
Absolutely. I first got Factorio in the high seas and played it quite a while like that. Eventually I realized it was definitely worth the money and bought it. It’s great value for the money and it’s not expensive at all.
They’re probably deleting their history because of “safety”.
And she’s good at it too when she actually tries! You wouldn’t believe what she actually manages to do when I can’t help her.
This is helping my mother:
“Yeah, yeah…”
start explaining using a ver simple analogy in a piece of paper
starts rolling eyes and looking away
“You’re ignoring me…”
“I’m not ignoring you! I don’t need to look at you all the time”
“What did I just said?”
“I don’t know! I don’t understand any of this stuff!”
“Yeah, that’s why I was explaining. I’m done”
“YOU NEVER HELP ME!”
I know, I know. Some explanations are simple but can be overwhelming to others. But she refuses to even try. She’s far from computer illiterate. I set a jellyfin server and she uses it everyday. Every time she has a hard time with it she expects me to drop everything and just do it for her. Everytime I go I don’t do anything, I just go there and while she shows all I do is repeat these two sentences: “What does it say on the screen and what are the options?” and “What do you think you should select?”. She eventually figures it out as I force her to actually read it.
Don’t ever change 🥹
I thought she was smarter than this…
He CAN take it far easier than Maduro. But the consequences would be far greater and it would be much harder to hold it.
I wouldn’t need to go that far. Just give him a server with no GUI and he’d be stuck.