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[–] 278 points 3 months ago (6 children)

The lawyer: "You did WHAT??"

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  • [–] 195 points 3 months ago (37 children)

    Well that's one way to never get another job again.

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  • [–] 63 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    If you’re that good, you can contract yourself out.

    The future is self-employment and unions.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Of the two I’ll pick wandering into the forest and dying of exposure.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    In many cases, you pretty much didn't exist before you stepped through the doors at your new company. People in all departments are too overloaded with work to take their time properly vetting every person joining the circus

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Most companies use background check services nowadays. Sure, you could try to just invent a new persona, but HR will flag you when your name, SSN, DOB, etc come back as bogus.

    There are even background check companies that specialize in corporate background checks. They’ll try to estimate or find things like how much you made at your previous/current job, so the company you’re applying for knows what they can offer you without it seeming like a lowball. If a company can spend $100 on a background check and save $10k per year on an employee salary, that’s an easy financial decision for the company.

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    [–] 114 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    So how did you test it?

    Presses button

    Syntax error on line 1
    

    Shit…

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  • [–] 94 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I hate AI. But this should realistically be called a "arrest me" button.

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  • [–] 64 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I really hope this kind of stand off becomes normalized. We can all lose.

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  • [–] 61 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    You could probably make it look like an accident. "I guess the LLM was having trouble reaching my account after I was deleted, so it posted everything to pastebin so I could see it there"

    Still risky and a funnier fantasy than good idea.

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  • [–] [S] 40 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    That's actually somewhat plausible, I saw a vid earlier today from some one talking about how their work coding AI agent noticed that their NPM was set to only update package dependencies 7 days after release because ya know best security practices and all that

    It "helpfully" set it to 0 because they would miss top features otherwise LMAO

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  • [–] 55 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    big companies leeching off open source and getting their products leaked after a single phishing mail never stops being entertaining

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  • [–] 51 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    I know it's a meme but I'd notify the lawyer before coding that, they'll laugh themselves silly. Electronic vandalism is still vandalism only the damages are higher.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It’s so wild to see all the fucking hall monitors in here wagging their fingers.

    You all deserve whatever you get.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm just concerned about their poor opsec

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  • Agreed, if this is true you should not be posting about it at all no matter where it is. It's best to just keep it quiet because the company at this point can probably get law enforcement involved if they ID the person. The only time a company should know something is going on in this situation your lawyer should already be fully involved.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    I would also call it “Sue me lol” button

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    [–] 31 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    If you've ever been let go by a corp you know you're gonna need some sort of remote trigger. They'll say "Can I see you for a minute?" and then BOOM! out the door.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Deadman switch. Hit the button before all meetings and if you aren't back in 2 hours to disable it then it would execute.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    My first thought was how do you test this actually works?

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    [–] 24 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Suggestion: instead of doing all that directly, the button adds these instructions to the SKILLS file and hope some AI take the bait one day.

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    [–] 22 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    I got laid off almost 2 years ago. I now work for the same company again working fewer hours at much higher pay. Layoffs aren't necessarily the end, and they can very much be the start of renegotiating your position

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 3 months ago

    Yea, this is the reason I held my tongue when the company CEO who laid me off last year (Who I worked directly under) posted something about investing in the people who further their goals. Because I had a bunch of very snarky I could have clapped back with, but I decided to not burn the bridge

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    [–] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Have you accounted for your access being revoked before you are notified about your fate?

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    [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    ways to be sued to suicide 1145.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    beautiful. i light up my nearest warehouse to the author

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    [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    How do you test that it actually works?

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    Create a file named "test" then confirm you can push it to public, rename the test string in your script to .env and then realise you didn't account for special characters in strings! SHIT!

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Having a criminal defense lawyer on standby is considered best practice.

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