When you leave

Not a great time for Big Tech who seem to be having a herd mentality moment - hiring (pandemic) and now large layoffs.

Some of the stories are awful and it’s not making people feel like human beings. Finding out by losing access? Sigh

I’m sorry if you’ve been impacted.

From an IT Ops perspective the minute you are no longer an employee of a company - we remove access. I’ve required all my teams do that. It’s documented, tested and checked. You get audited on it. It’s a golden rule in IT, Security, Infosec. It’s what you always do.

How do you do that at scale? Globally distributed? While keeping comms secure? Not being dragged out? While not treating people like a commodity when it’s already going to be a horrendous moment for them? So Execs don’t end up on news sites with phone videos of them making a hash of it over Zoom?

I don’t have a bloody clue.

But I hope organisations who say they care about people learn a lesson from this. Don’t let it get to that scale, or figure out how to do it better.