• JATth@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I do this exact same expression when I’m forced to gain knowledge of something potentially personally catastrophic…

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    My company has a 6 month probation period. It also has a 6 month password expiry. Because of all the SSO nonsense, it’s quite possible for it to lapse without warning.

    It’s now a running joke that get locked out on the last day of probation, and you’re expecting a call from HR any minute.

      • mkwt@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Current IT best practice is that passwords should never expire on a set schedule, but they should expire if there is evidence they’ve been breached.

        • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Legit, my old job required a 90-day change, and I once logged into a system I could do monetary damage on with ease, because I took a guess at my manager’s password based on how long it had been since he told it to me during an emergency.

          He did what every single person I spoke to did. “password 01” changed to “password 02” and I just tried twice, and sure enough he had changed it three times since he had told me.

          While I wouldn’t be ruining the company as a whole, I could have easily fucked over the individual location because scheduled password changes just ensure people use predictable passwords.

      • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The current thinking as I understand it is expiry policies make most types of accounts less secure because users just cycle through the same predictable pattern of adding increasing numbers of exclamation points or incrementing the last digit at each required password change, and if you require new passwords to be too substantially dissimilar from x number of previous ones then users can’t remember them at all. Policies that make people use minimally complex passwords because they have too many to remember and don’t understand how password managers work inevitably increase password reuse between services and devices which does the opposite of improving security. Especially with MFA enforced, which I’ve been known to do as aggressively as I can get away with, there’s just no sense in requiring regular password resets – as long as the password remains complex, unique, and uncompromised. I’m not a network security expert but I am responsible for managing these sorts of things in my role and that’s the rationale I use for the group policies in a typical customer’s environment.

        • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
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          2 months ago

          You’re supposed to have controls in place to prevent all of those concerns. I’m not saying passwords should be changed every 30 days, but 6 months is a long time.

          But, companies with password expirations should be providing a password manager.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    At my last job, time they added or removed someone’s key card access, the system would reboot and everyone would be locked out for like two minutes.

    We also had two floors that were connected by a fire stairwell, so you needed a card to re-enter the next floor.

    At least twice my card stopped working in the middle of the word day while I was standing in the stairwell and I assumed that they just fired me and assumed I’d see my own way out.

    Survived three layoffs at that company.

    • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Way too stressful. I worked at a company that was bought by a hedge fund and they were always downsizing, even if it was key employees. It made me under perform and caused insomnia that I never quite got over and it was 11 years ago.

  • essteeyou@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I haven’t been laid off since April. I haven’t had a job since then though, so that’s not exactly ideal.

  • bruhbeans@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I got canned from my last job and thr way I found out was my work Gmail was locked out, fuckin class acts them.

    Getting fired from my current gig would be a relief tbh.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My dad has been a server engineer for a single company for my entire life and he lived like this up until quite recently. His fear oscillates in magnitude with the success of the industry the company is a part of course so it isn’t always severe but I remember every few years as a kid I’d hear him and my mother murmering about lay offs. These days he just jokes about it being an early retirement

  • AbsentBird@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Anyone else see the back of the chair as the person’s hair in the first two panels?

  • KrankyKong@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I know the feeling. A few months ago I randomly got a video call from my boss. Both he and the owner of the company were in the line. They let me know that they unfortunately had to let go of almost everyone on the dev team. Some funding had fell through (gotta love startups). Fortunately, I got to keep my job that day, but I can’t shake the feeling that another layoff is right around the corner.

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I work in IT. We get notified when people leave.

    The cruelest thing in my company is when we get to know before the person in question…