Well in due tradition I’ll start this tumblr post as I have the rest and get it over with. I know I haven’t been posting too often, and I’m not particularly sorry either. I’ve been working.
Actually theres been quite some changes recently. For example I no longer work in the craphole I used to work in. My duties there involved assembling computers, and when all the pallets had been assembled, we would test software on computers to make sure it had imaged correctly, as there were thousands of computers and on more than one occasion the whole OS image had fucked up. We’d also have other tasks to do such as plugging in network cables and transporting computers to other parts of the building on trolleys.
It was when we were testing software that I discovered a way in the locked down environment how to get on to CMD. I’m a bit of an IT security freak, but I’m a whitehat. I enjoy breaking filters and restrictions then thinking how they can be better improved. Well to put it simply the guy who managed us didn’t… he didn’t like me at all because of this. Not to mention this incident in January where merely running PuTTY, I kid you not, without connecting to anything, earned me the title of “the hacker”. So word had already spread I was supposedly spending all my free time hacking into information systems and what not, when really I’d just been writing legitimate code, managing servers and partying with friends.
In light of all this, when the senior consultant made a list of who should go, I was at the top. Yeah you just fired the guy who knows a thing or two about IT security. Revenge is sweet, but I’m not thick, it’d be obvious if, for example, a list of their staff passwords appeared on the torrent sites. Totally hypothetical, I assure you. Anyway a day or so before this had happened, he was talking to three of my colleagues, who are also good friends, and the subject of me came up, where I got called, according to them, a “lowlife”, and he made remarks like “he will never get a job”, “he’ll get a criminal record”, and “he’ll waste his life away”. I cannot verify the authenticity of such claims, but my friends wouldn’t lie to me.
I did what most people would’ve done and put in a complaint to my manager about said derogatory and harassing comments. He apologized for them and said he’d investigate. I’ve not actually heard anything back from him yet. Almost two weeks now. God forbid he’s got the MI6 involved in the inquiry. I can understand the lack of communication that dubbed me the “hacker”, but those comments crossed a line, I don’t deserved to be talked about behind my back like that, no one does. However in the interim my friends were approached by the consultant, who, and I’m lacking clarity here, but asked whether he made those claims, i.e. to back himself up and make sure they weren’t lying, and asked them why they’d told me what he said. After all, I weren’t there when these comments were made, therefore one might assume whats said in one room stays in that room. But he’s a dick, and my friends know that, thats why they told me what he said.
Turns out he thinks I’m sour that I got asked to leave first, and I should get over it. Funny thing is, since then me and my business partner have started a registered company. The consultant doesn’t know that, but then again he doesn’t need to, we didn’t do it to prove a point, but in a way it does. I’m not sour, whenever I think of him saying that to my friends I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
I’ve since been told by several people this is how the working world is. A shower of bastards. Most of them. Whatever job you’re in, theres always someone like this. I was also told this is better to happen whilst I’m young, and to be quite honest, couldn’t give a fuck. Since it was my first job, and ultimately I’ve let my naievity get the better of me by saying this; I didn’t think this was what its like, I had no idea.
Now the title for this post is called a gross misinterpretation, thats because of the unprofessionalism I witnessed in such a large organisation. There are other details to this whole thing, but I can’t publish those, I might end up in prison LOL. This explains pretty much the most part of my experience.
