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re: LSU IT manager missed work for 6 months, no one noticed
Posted on 3/4/16 at 9:51 am to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 3/4/16 at 9:51 am to LSUFanHouston
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This is a terrible headline on the story.
Working remotely unauthorized is not the same as skipping work. If he worked from home unauthorized for 6 months, to me, that's a problem on the manager, not on him.
So we arrested him in Texas and extradited him back to Baton Rouge? Because he didn't turn in his laptop and other property a week after he said he would? We searched his house out of state? For this amount? For a guy that's worked at LSU for 13 years?
Look, if he was fired, he should have turned his stuff back in, and if he did not, send him a bill. To extradite him and all that for $6,000 of stuff seems, well, extreme.
This.
Shame on his manager for not clearing this up. Is it really believable that he worked from Dallas all this time and his boss didn't know it?
Shame on LSU for having him arrested for what seems like an HR paperwork issue.
Shame on the Advocate for such slip-shod reporting.
There has got to be more to this story and people are going to look very foolish when it all comes out.
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Posted on 3/4/16 at 9:55 am to Epic Cajun
Apparently he was going work for someone on Tigerdroppings recently
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I received the email invitation. I skipped over it at first because the sender was shown as:
Srinivas Thouta [noreply@qemailserver.com]
Not a sender name that I recognized.
The subject did show as Louisiana waterfowl hunters survey but that did not catch my attention at first glance.
I did eventually click the link but maybe the emails could be framed a little better for an increased response rate.
Posted on 3/4/16 at 9:59 am to BigJim
I'm in agreement here.
We have a lot of people who work remotely and are still very productive at their jobs. They have circumstances that don't allow them to work onsite like most.
If management had a problem with that, bring it up to him, ask him to come in more often, and fire him if he doesn't comply. Instead, it seems they are now trying to throw up a bullshite excuse to their management or to get him fired.
We have a lot of people who work remotely and are still very productive at their jobs. They have circumstances that don't allow them to work onsite like most.
If management had a problem with that, bring it up to him, ask him to come in more often, and fire him if he doesn't comply. Instead, it seems they are now trying to throw up a bullshite excuse to their management or to get him fired.
Posted on 3/4/16 at 10:04 am to Chicken
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That is both awesome and terrible. I hope his boss is fired too.
Yeah, this doesn't happen in a private employer situation.
Posted on 3/4/16 at 10:22 am to BigJim
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Interesting about the name on the emails. Srinivas has been working with us since 2010 and is an invaluable part of our research team for his programming, organizational, and web skills. But his name might be associated with things other than waterfowl surveys.
I'm a little confused but this sounds like he was working with LDWF?
Posted on 3/4/16 at 10:22 am to kywildcatfanone
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Yeah, this doesn't happen in a private employer situation.
Yes it does. I had an employee do basically the same thing at a private company. Because he was claiming suicide and all kinds of other stuff, he milked it for months. He was paid and did less work than what this guy probably did. He finally quit because he knew he was getting fired and stole all the computer equipment assigned to him.
Posted on 3/4/16 at 10:35 am to FreddieMac
This is stupid. He worked from home without permission. There are many IT jobs that allow and actually encourage telecommuting.
I get recruiters hollering at me for DBA jobs based in Denver or Charlotte. I could live in BR and only have to come to the office once a quarter for meetings. Anyhoots. LSU is silly for this.
Oh... and I know where I'm not applying for IT jobs.
I get recruiters hollering at me for DBA jobs based in Denver or Charlotte. I could live in BR and only have to come to the office once a quarter for meetings. Anyhoots. LSU is silly for this.
Oh... and I know where I'm not applying for IT jobs.
This post was edited on 3/4/16 at 10:38 am
Posted on 3/4/16 at 10:40 am to LSUMJ
Would not see this in the private sector.
Working remotely is fine if you're allowed to. But this guy did not follow orders and should've been fired after a month at most.
Working remotely is fine if you're allowed to. But this guy did not follow orders and should've been fired after a month at most.
This post was edited on 3/4/16 at 10:43 am
Posted on 3/5/16 at 6:42 am to DrewTheEngineer
There is very likely a lot more to this story than reported.
The survey lab is highly IT intensive, which is why there would be a higher level IT person. My hunch is that this guy was highly valued and needed having worked there for 13 years, so one manager gives him the "ok" to work remotely. A new person steps into the role or someone above does oversight, and not seeing any formal approval, terminates him and goes overboard with describing it as having not worked in months.
The survey lab is highly IT intensive, which is why there would be a higher level IT person. My hunch is that this guy was highly valued and needed having worked there for 13 years, so one manager gives him the "ok" to work remotely. A new person steps into the role or someone above does oversight, and not seeing any formal approval, terminates him and goes overboard with describing it as having not worked in months.
Posted on 3/5/16 at 6:50 am to LSUMJ
I used to work at the PPRL as an undergrad, frick that place. I am not surprised they never notoced that. They were too busy treating the student workers like shite.
Posted on 3/5/16 at 7:23 am to TigerinATL
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Getting fired for working remotely without approval doesn't seem unreasonable, but if he actually performed his tasks, this story isn't nearly as outrageous the headline makes it out to be.
A "journalist" purposely exaggerating or leaving out facts to manufacture/spice up a click me type story? Say it aint so!
fwiw I knew a guy years ago that worked for LSU in IT. They replaced a bunch of machines but didnt have DVD burners on them. He swapped the DVD burners off the old machines to the new ones so they didn't lose the capability.
His boss who rarely showed up to work accused him of theft. Clueless.
This post was edited on 3/5/16 at 7:27 am
Posted on 3/5/16 at 7:32 am to dagrippa
He was probably doing everything fine remotely and some busybody that is useless got jealous and caused a stink. State offices are full of people that you have no clue what their actual function is other than to leave notes on the shared microwave and to gossip about coworkers.
Posted on 3/5/16 at 7:41 am to LSUMJ
Not defending this guy, but IT guys working remotely is extremely common. He should have gone into the office at least weekly just to check up on things.
Posted on 3/5/16 at 7:53 am to LSUMJ
Multiply this scenario and degrees and variations of it by the thousands and welcome to the world of employment in the bureaucracy.
Posted on 3/5/16 at 8:25 am to Cosmo
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Government folks good stuff
Trust in government....
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