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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by gs17 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:57PM (#33264891)
My dad had a friend who did similar at an even larger company. The way the story was passed down to me, his whole floor was laid off while he was on some sort of leave/vacation and so the paperwork didn't get filed right, leaving him disconnected from the organizational tree but still in payroll. It's amazing the mistakes bureaucracy can make.
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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by tra3 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @06:31PM (#33268693)
Come on. That's Milton's plot line from Office Space.
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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by gs17 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:42AM (#33275449)
If I hadn't met the guy and known he worked for this company, I would have had an angry phone call home after finally getting to see Office Space. The big difference though is Milton kept himself visible because he was unaware (IIRC) and this guy came in and hid every day because he figured out what happened and knew how fragile a situation it was.
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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by tra3 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:55AM (#33276608)
There had to be a prototypical Milton somewhere. Hilarious!
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