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Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

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125 points todsacerdoti | 4 comments | 18 Jul 25 23:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Havoc ◴[19 Jul 25 00:22 UTC] No.44611329[source]▶
>Effective immediately,

>we strongly recommend planning your migration

Not even a brief period of advance notice to do a migration? Just one day no more security patches...

wth is going on over at intel

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curt15 ◴[19 Jul 25 00:25 UTC] No.44611349[source]▶
How much notice did ppl get when sacked?
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nine_k ◴[19 Jul 25 01:21 UTC] No.44611667[source]▶
From my experience, none. "Utterly unfortunately, today was your last day with the company. A separation agreement has been sent to your personal email. Your corporate access is being revoked. Thank you for your contribution!"

Being fired for poor performance is all about ample warnings, issuing a PIP, etc. The company wants the employee back on track. Being laid off is a situation that an employee cannot fix with their efforts. There's no incentive to work this week if it is already known that you are going to be laid off next week, but some employees might consider a prank or even minor sabotage as a helpless act of protest. It's safest to dismiss the laid-off ASAP.

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1. KennyBlanken ◴[19 Jul 25 01:54 UTC] No.44611860[source]▶
"Employees might sabotage stuff" is something parroted constantly and there's never any proof it is a significant issue.
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2. _alternator_ ◴[19 Jul 25 02:04 UTC] No.44611908[source]▶
A single person can cause a lot of damage.
3. kemotep ◴[19 Jul 25 02:33 UTC] No.44612057[source]▶
This[0] is just the first result searching and it is from this week too. But it is not uncommon. Insider threats to infrastructure exist at all times of course but a disgruntled employee with administrative access and knowledge of the infrastructure can do a lot of damage quickly.

[0]: https://flaglerlive.com/it-attack-firing/

4. kijiki ◴[19 Jul 25 02:37 UTC] No.44612072[source]▶
It's not common, but it absolutely happens: https://www.courthousenews.com/man-behind-s-f-system-lockout...

Early in my career in the mid 2000s, the startup that was on the same floor as mine laid off a QA person, who then showed up the next day and fatally shot the CEO and head of HR. Our CEO called me and told me not to come in that day.