This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
That's why companies use SSO, so when they lay off someone, they just have to disable one account.
Not necessarily to justify Gizmodo in this instance, but Slack does paywall their SSO feature behind their Business+ Plan, which seems to currently run $12.50/mo/user, which is about a 70% increase from their next pricing tier. See: https://slack.com/pricing
Given the price difference I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't want to pay for that.
Edit: someone later in the thread linked this page which helps explain why this is generally a bad practice https://sso.tax/
Wild ride scrolling through the percentage markups and thinking you found the peak at Cloudflare only to see Coursera looming over it
Also easier than resetting passwords for 15 different sites and accounts because a user lost their post-it note
We use MS Teams, and even if there’s so much shit you can throw at it for valid reasons (e.g. not working with AirPods Pro 2, wtf?) this could never happen, as our single MS Office account is linked throughout all the software/services we use (and of course you can’t change your name).
I don’t undertsand why a corporation would give up this kind of central account control and use a service, where - based on the article - most likely a poor IT admin guy has to manually search for the username of a leaving employee.
a poor IT admin guy has to manually search for the username of a leaving employee.
Your comment suggests you think IT Admins are told about departing employees, timely or at all.
HR doesn't trust Staff with that knowledge, even if that Staff member needs to disable an account because we must act quickly to protect the company against the same horrible criminals who enjoyed free reign and ultimate trust as the paragons of virtue they were the MOMENT before they were fired.
I'm thankful our HR gave us notice when I was in Desktop Support.
The rare occasion we received short notice from HR or the general exec of our tech division was due to an immediate termination, and that was usually due to people not passing probation, or for egregious behaviour like sending 100s of GB to their personal email after they resigned and we're in their notice period.
Or we once had a guy who was completely off the rails... we don't know what happened exactly, but a user called up and he was having a manic episode and was convinced someone hacked his account/phone and was listening to him.
We raised it as a concern and a few weeks (maybe a month or so later) we were asked to terminate his account.
I heard he had stopped taking his meds. Hope he's alright now... he was a nice fellow usually.
I don't even work in that sector and HR is the exact same here. Employee did something horribly egregious that got them fired? You're lucky if their supervisor was informed to take them off the schedule. No reason given, just they no longer work here. Did they quit? They no longer work here. Did they get fired? They no longer work here. Can I tell my staff what they did wrong so they don't get fired on short notice? They no longer work here, but you can't tell your staff. WHY THE FUCK NOT?!
Slack Business/Enterprise supports SAML single sign-on. At any scale larger than a single team or two this is probably the better way of handling it, then the account gets disabled as soon as it's disabled in the identity provider. Otherwise if I remember right Slack accounts are tied to the email address and users can set their own display names. I used to administrate Slack for ~60 users but now we're on Teams.
It would've been connected to his email... You just need good offboarding routines
Our enterprise has all of that automated, who's searching for names manually in any business of nontrivial size....?
This can, and should, be scripted.
Exactly, most services can be tied into a central authentication system/SSO and can automatically be disabled upon disabling an SSO user.
Ignorance and/or incompetence.
Thats your answer to "I don't understand why"
This should be under BOFH, for Bastard Operator From Hell, the Register concept..
yEEEks, people..
Oh hey - catturd2; isn't that that sycophantic piece of shit who fawns all over Elon Musk every chance he gets? Maybe it's a different catturd2 on bluesky.
Edit: Actually, yeah; it does look like it's a different person entirely:
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this guy being a total shithead on Twitter before. One sec..
Edit: yep, catturd2 is a MAGA cultist - https://lemmy.world/comment/6563244
Edit 2: I took one for the team and checked bluesky catturd2’s profile on Twitter and it looks pretty anti-MAGA; there’s a couple tweets that address: cops hiding their badge numbers (bluesky catturd2 is against this), Twitter being a conservative cesspool, and generally talking shit about the trump family. I wonder if bluesky catturd2 intentionally co-opted the name to troll Twitter catturd2.
That's hilarious given the topic of the thread. Identity theft for good?!
It's a podcaster and/or journalist who is not actually catturd2 doing a bit
Yeah that makes sense. Pretty amusing.
