There and Back

My boss walked into my office eating from a small bag of potato chips. He whispers that he wants me to sit in on a termination of an employee (firing) so I can see how it’s done. I’m nervous. He showed me how to remote into a computer with the command prompt open and then shut down the computer using “shutdown /s /t 0 /f” that is great power to have as a sysadmin. They do this so the person being fired doesn’t go on a rampage and damage the system or delete company assets or try to break in to the building at ten o’clock at night and smash windows and break a photocopier machine that costs tens of thousands of dollars while also carrying an eight inch blade. Apparently that actually happened once here. That person was promptly arrested and spent a few years in jail, also due to some prior arrests. This will be an exciting week.