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{{first name | Reader}}
My badge stopped working on a Tuesday.
Not dramatically. I held it to the reader at the side entrance, the light went red, and I held it there again, the way everybody does, as though the second attempt is a different argument.
Then I stood in the parking lot for a moment and had a thought I did not schedule.
I want to be accurate about the thought. It was not fear. It was closer to a held breath. And somewhere underneath it, and I am still working out how I feel about this, there was something that was almost disappointment.
Facilities said the access system had run an update overnight. Fourteen of us were affected. A little after ten it was working again.
I have thought about those four minutes more than about anything else that happened that week.
A RESIGNATION LETTER I WON’T BE SENDING
To: Access Control
Re: Ticket 4471, closed
Please accept this as my formal resignation from the access request process, effective on receipt.
I have submitted eleven tickets in four years. I have been granted access to a shared drive I did not need, removed from one I did, and asked twice to justify a permission I have held since before the person reviewing it was hired.
I want to be fair to the system. It is not hostile. It is simply the only part of this organization that has ever responded to me within the hour.
On Tuesday morning it decided I was not an employee. By 10:04 it had decided I was again. Nobody was required to explain either decision, and nobody did. The ticket was closed with the words "resolved, no further action."
I would like to note, for the file, that I was standing outside at the time.
Regards,
DEEPLY UNSETTLING MATH
Say you badge in and out four times a day. In, lunch, back from lunch, out.
Five days a week. Forty-seven working weeks a year. Twenty-two years.
That is 20,680 times you have proved you belong here.
It took one overnight update to stop.
ONE GENUINELY USEFUL THING: Twelve names.
Everyone you know professionally lives inside a system you do not own. On the day you leave, whether that is your decision or not, access ends in one click and the list goes with it.
Do not export the address book. That belongs to them, and in some places it is a genuine problem, so check your own policy before you go near it.
Instead, take twenty minutes and write down twelve names. Not everybody. Twelve.
The ones who would take your call in three years. The one who taught you the thing nobody wrote down. The two you would hire immediately if you ever needed to. The person who always knew what was actually going on.
Then, over the next few months and with no urgency whatsoever, connect with each of them somewhere that is yours. A personal email, a phone number, a connection on whatever network they actually use.
This is not networking. It is keeping twelve people you already know, instead of losing them to a system that will forget you the same afternoon.
PARKING LOT
Sixth one.
Write the letter you won't send. Hit reply and send it to me. I'll publish it anonymously, and nobody will ever know it was you.
Go do something that isn't work.
R. Countdown
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
Ticket 4471. Root cause: not determined.
Enough, Already Club. Form EA-1. Distribution: internal.
Retention: until you leave.