Woman Deletes 7 Years Of Company's History Out Of Spite
 

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/cri....employee.wtlv

Okay - so here is the real life scenario - a woman "thinks" she is getting fired and sneaks in at night to delete 7 years worth of drawings and company records worth over 2 million from the server. Although the owner has to spend a shit load of money to recover deleted files and has - this is a strong reminder that every company that allows its employee's access to private information NOR does a back up is in trouble from this sabotage.

We hear all the time of rep's who walk away with webmaster lists - content or email lists that they use as a bargaining chip when applying to another job (competitor even). Do you consider yourself vulnerable or do you have backups of everything?

As a final note - the past few weeks I have been in the market to hire some reps for the future - some stating they have current lists they can bring to me, while others impressively say, "I am well enough connected that I can bring webmasters in simply because of my character".

My feeling is that there is roughly 8000 webmasters out there - once you have working in this industry as long as I have, I pretty much have all the lists - what I don't have is someone who may not have all the lists which is of no value to me because webmasters tend to work with those they trust more then who manages to spam them with email offers.

I hope that you'll be careful who has access to your material - but mostly - after doing an audit on everything - back up all info just in case someone gets an idea in their head.

yeah right, not a single back up?

I hope doing that shit was worth 5 years in prison. When she gets out she probably won't even be able to get a job as a cashier at McDonald's. She might erase the prices you know. What a dumb bitch. She probably wasn't getting fired anyways. And if she was she probably deserved it. Why can't people just admit they are a fuck up and that's why they get fired and then maybe they can stop being a fuck up and be able to keep a job.

I agree with what you said Robert however with the above statement I don't see how can be a bad thing. Good character doesn't equal sales per say but I much rather have a webmaster with good character than a webmaster with the so called "list". I feel im pretty ethical and wouldn't even considering hiring someone if they claimed to have a list.

I know this thread wasn't about that more so about keeping webmaster lists and certain company information private and backed up but I find their is a fine line between what to keep confidential and what the affliate manager should know to help him close the account.

Thanks for the reminder im going to back up my icq list now.

edit!!!!!!

if you have business critical information in digital format it should be on ur servers (not peoples desktops) and ontop of raids theres no reason not to do an offsite backup on a regular basis. loosing 1 week/month worth of stuff is much less significant than years worth. I guarantee these guys were cheap didnt want to write a check when their guy told them u need backups or user permissions etc. Its their own fault if you ask me.

Your right. Though I do find that alot of people feel and use lists as currency in this industry without realizing that webmasters shun spam emails and would prefer working with a rep (such as yourself) that they can trust with a good work ethic.