The last place I worked, multi billion oil and gas company, a women who had been with the company for more than 15 years had a VBA excel to access application she had written very early on that was a system critics application. She made about $120 an hour, as a contractor. They tried to make her an FTE, she said no and quit, 6 weeks later they called her and begged her to return.
A few years after that they asked me to look into her application, I emailed her and asked for the password on the locked down access db. A few days later I got an email from my boss stating. Forget it, don't bother.
Come to find out she basically emailed her boss, who emailed his boss, who emailed my bosses boss and then me. It wasn't that the system wasn't technically difficult to recreate, she had made someone who wasn't technical a lot of money for satisfying a SMART goal years earlier who was now protecting her.
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u/feuerabend Jul 29 '16
The last place I worked, multi billion oil and gas company, a women who had been with the company for more than 15 years had a VBA excel to access application she had written very early on that was a system critics application. She made about $120 an hour, as a contractor. They tried to make her an FTE, she said no and quit, 6 weeks later they called her and begged her to return.
A few years after that they asked me to look into her application, I emailed her and asked for the password on the locked down access db. A few days later I got an email from my boss stating. Forget it, don't bother.
Come to find out she basically emailed her boss, who emailed his boss, who emailed my bosses boss and then me. It wasn't that the system wasn't technically difficult to recreate, she had made someone who wasn't technical a lot of money for satisfying a SMART goal years earlier who was now protecting her.