IT boss gets an email from the head of another department, asking for some user permissions to be adjusted, according to a pilot fish in the loop.

“The email said he wanted permissions to be granted to a few individuals ‘or whomever it may be. I am out of here,'” fish reports.

“My boss replied, ‘Are you quitting?’

“The response: ‘Yes.’

“Boss told me to call the HR manager to confirm the ‘rumor’ that this department head was leaving. HR manager said, ‘Haven’t heard this. Is the rumor from a reliable source?’

“I went to talk to the HR manager in person, with the department head’s key card that he had already turned in, to confirm the rumor. I was trying to figure out if that day, or the next day, was this employee’s last day, as he had already turned in his keys.

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