Seems if you're the only one with access, then you're the only one with the passwords. Play the long game, something will go wrong, they'll call you for the passwords, simply forget them........then offer to consult for them and an inflated hourly rate
Just offer your services at 150% of your current daily rate should anything crop up.
then offer to consult for them and an inflated hourly rate
For consultancy at sysadmin level including specific knowledge I'd expect somewhere between £500 and £1000 a day, in half-day blocks.
Swap all the USB ports for floppy disc drives...
Then bum them.
My ex colleague changed our bosses standard light grey 8 point t&cs below the email signature to be contain some very fruity phrases.
One was that he would not be held accountable for any pornography, child or otherwise, sent from this address.
Didn't notice for 3 days which is about 450 emails in his job. Brilliant.
Don't leave you screen unlocked if you're a t****r!
In your case, don't do anything proactive, but certainly make it so sysadmin access is needed constantly. It's not your fault if they didn't ask you for the passwords and EVERYTHING now needs a password.
A mate who was a plant hire shop manager for a big company upon being sacked printed out the entire customer record files concerning hiring construction tools to the big building companies. The type that hires 20 jcb's, big compressors etc.
He went there to his next job also in a hire company and then contacted all his previous customers with new rates.
My ex colleague changed our bosses standard light grey 8 point t&cs below the email signature to be contain some very fruity phrases.
One of my favourites was a chap I know in SecOps for another company who got so sick of telling a colleague to lock his PC when left unattended* that he went into Outlook's autocorrect list and added the guy's manager's name aliased as "Fat Bastard." So the next time he emailed his boss it started "Dear Fat Bastard"...
(* - yes, this should have been done at Group Policy level)
Take a pic of the desktop, then have it as the background. Hide the icons.
All of a sudden nothing you click on works.
Definitely not worth it, but have often thought of ways.
One way I came up with, which was quite elegant and simple I thought, was to get group policy to run a startup script hidden somewhere on the server, on all the clients. The batch file would simply have one line that read “pause”. Never tested it.
Nothing is broken, PCs won’t boot, but it would be a pain to find the cause for anyone not in IT.
Like the desktop image trick too.