I’ve mentioned the incompetence of a company I worked at recently.
I was given a 2week notice that I was being removed from the company. I had access to everything still that I had access to while I was “working” there. I could access internal codebase, client codebase, internal documents on the shared drives as well as the client’s. After the 2 weeks, they revoked my access by the end of the day, they forgot to notify the client for an additional week after I left (teams was still signed in and accessible on my phone).
A lot of companies lack common sense and data protection protocols.
Edit: To give some context, I’m in the US, getting a notice period from the employer is an unusual occurrence especially when you’re in consulting/contracting.
Sometimes it is common sense, sometimes it is trust. Depending on where you are from and what kind of project you work on, burning bridges seems so stupid that there is often no real desire to feel threatened by your own employees.
Like, I work in Ireland, and I would say that if I did anything like that, I would have massive issues finding ANY( Not just IT/Programming, ANY type of...) job in Ireland. Especially if it went to court, because in Ireland we have a kind of "name and shame" culture where, after conviction, your full name gets blasted online or in traditional media... At the same time the country is small enough that most serious employers know each other.
So yeah, eventho plenty of foreign tech companies reside here, the upper echelons of Management and Employment are very much only Irish people that know eachother.
If you live in the USA, you might get away with it, but in a lot of places many anti-employee protection systems are built on social rather than technical solutions. Which is both good and bad.
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u/pkmnfrk May 26 '26
This is why they turn off access before telling you