DainBramaged Doug Bulna steals television remote (7-year anniversary 08-21-20)

[Charles Henrickson]

The one word I would use to describe DB's conduct in this matter is "petty." For such a petty offense, I don't think he should be fired. A good talking-to, maybe a little public humiliation--a pantsing in front of the sales team, something like that--DB climbs up in the rafters and retrieves the remote, he licks his wounds, and he's back on the job. Let the punishment fit the crime.

[franksolich]

Not so.  DB made a small number of posts yesterday (none of them about the Case of the Missing Remote). Nothing today so far, though. I hope he's OK.

How did you find them?  I just used the nadin machine less than an hour ago, and that's what it showed.

I hope he's not okay, for his own good.  He has to hit bottom before he can get well, and if he doesn't hit bottom, he's never going to get well.

<<<always concerned for the fate of one's fellow humans.

[franksolich]

The one word I would use to describe DB's conduct in this matter is "petty." For such a petty offense, I don't think he should be fired. A good talking-to, maybe a little public humiliation--a pantsing in front of the sales team, something like that--DB climbs up in the rafters and retrieves the remote, he licks his wounds, and he's back on the job. Let the punishment fit the crime.

Oh but there's something else here; I forget whether it was Karin or AprilRazz who originally pointed it out.

As "systems administrator" for a big automotive dealership, the tax-evading brain-damaged primitive is privy to a great deal of confidential information.

Would you want someone who's "only petty" (quotation marks intentional) trusted with your confidential information?

I think he should be fired, so that he becomes a better person in the end.

[Charles Henrickson]

How did you find them?

I used the google and typed in

site:democraticunderground.com dainbramaged

And I refined the search, first to a custom range of August 25-27, then August 26-27, and then I searched for the past 24 hours.

[franksolich]

I used the google and typed in

site:democraticunderground.com dainbramaged

And I refined the search, first to a custom range of August 25-27, then August 26-27, and then I searched for the past 24 hours.

I used dainbramaged site: democraticunderground, in that order, and then specified "the past week" in the advanced search.

[Celtic Rose]

The one word I would use to describe DB's conduct in this matter is "petty." For such a petty offense, I don't think he should be fired. A good talking-to, maybe a little public humiliation--a pantsing in front of the sales team, something like that--DB climbs up in the rafters and retrieves the remote, he licks his wounds, and he's back on the job. Let the punishment fit the crime.

For me, hiding the remote is a fairly minor deal.  The more severe employment related offense was him posting that because he is the System Admin management will believe whatever he tells them.  Actively lying to management, and then bragging about it on a public forum, is the offense that that could see him being fired for. 

[franksolich]

This might seem an irrelevant beef to many here, but to me, it's important in that it reveals a great deal about Dougie's character--the way he kept putting Tucker on "ignore."

Tucker's a nice guy, and full of illumination; people become better people by paying attention to Tucker.  He doesn't deserve to be ignored.

That was getting my goat years ago.

This resentment is--surprise!--because I'm deaf, and usually am desperately trying to hear anything, something, from anyone, everyone.....and failing.

I cannot possibly imagine someone with hearing, not wanting to hear.

It blows my mind. 

If I could hear, I'd want to hear everything, from everybody, so as to become a better person.

[zeitgeist]

For me, hiding the remote is a fairly minor deal.  The more severe employment related offense was him posting that because he is the System Admin management will believe whatever he tells them.  Actively lying to management, and then bragging about it on a public forum, is the offense that that could see him being fired for. 

Exactly.  It goes to the matter of character and trust.  If you can't trust you admin how can you trust you network?  Is he selling your client list? Posting on company time?  If he is willing to play you for a fool what must he think of you to post it.

I agree that taking the remote is petty but as CR points out his further actions, spiking it in the end zone if you will,  are what 'draw the flag'.   He has access to all the vital company information and has demonstrated he cannot be trusted.  Case closed!

[franksolich]

Exactly.  It goes to the matter of character and trust.  If you can't trust you admin how can you trust you network?  Is he selling your client list? Posting on company time?  If he is willing to play you for a fool what must he think of you to post it.

I agree that taking the remote is petty but as CR points out his further actions, spiking it in the end zone if you will, are what 'draw the flag'.   He has access to all the vital company information and has demonstrated he cannot be trusted.  Case closed!

The tax-evading brain-damaged primitive did something else "petty," years ago, but this was before I got acquainted with him, and I don't know the details.  Tucker does, though.

It had something to do with the United Automobile Workers and a company computer.

[Ptarmigan]

For me, hiding the remote is a fairly minor deal.  The more severe employment related offense was him posting that because he is the System Admin management will believe whatever he tells them.  Actively lying to management, and then bragging about it on a public forum, is the offense that that could see him being fired for.  

The cover up is worse than the crime. To top it, he bragged about it. If Dain Bramaged never said a word about it, we would not talk about this.

[zeitgeist]

The tax-evading brain-damaged primitive did something else "petty," years ago, but this was before I got acquainted with him, and I don't know the details.  Tucker does, though.

It had something to do with the United Automobile Workers and a company computer.

We use to have hard and fast rules separating corporate and union computers. I had several friends at the union hall but I was not allowed to do anything for them in terms of computers.  Verboten.    Appears exercising bad judgment is not a new thing with Drain.  Like the drunk driver, one wonders how many times this type thing has happened before he got caught.  

[BlueStateSaint]

The cover up is worse than the crime. To top it, he bragged about it. If Dain Bramaged never said a word about it, we would not talk about this.

It's what got Richard Nixon.

[FlaGator]

The one word I would use to describe DB's conduct in this matter is "petty." For such a petty offense, I don't think he should be fired. A good talking-to, maybe a little public humiliation--a pantsing in front of the sales team, something like that--DB climbs up in the rafters and retrieves the remote, he licks his wounds, and he's back on the job. Let the punishment fit the crime.

I say give him the chair.

[GOBUCKS]

The one word I would use to describe DB's conduct in this matter is "petty." For such a petty offense, I don't think he should be fired. A good talking-to, maybe a little public humiliation--a pantsing in front of the sales team, something like that--DB climbs up in the rafters and retrieves the remote, he licks his wounds, and he's back on the job. Let the punishment fit the crime.

Not being a computer expert, I'm not certain, but my impression is that a system administrator has access to every detail of the company's operation. Payroll, costs, profits, executive compensation, taxes, email communications, legal issues, everything.

For Doug Bulna, with that kind of access to critical confidential information, to reveal himself as an unbalanced radical leftist should be more than alarming.

If it isn't a firing offense, what would be?

[miskie]

I have the feeling that his title as a systems administrator is a bit 'inflated', and that he does little work on the software end of things - that he is a hardware monkey. Hardware replacement. Networking. Answers the age old question "Why won't my computer print ?" Maybe has reloaded an OS or two, or scrubbed an obsolete hard disk. Maybe even keeps the WWW site updated (new pictures, sales, prices, that sort of thing).

I don't think he does anything involving writing/updating/maintaining software, and I suspect he has very little access to it - especially since it appears that http://gearhartchevy.com/ is a 'canned' website - produced from a common source, then prettied up for the client.

Not that there is anything wrong with that, mind you - hell, I have a couple of 'canned ' web backends I designed myself, and I use my 'innards' often with existing free CSS templates that I modify for the client.  - No need to reinvent the wheel every time I put a site together.  

[obumazombie]

I hope non one on this site is waiting for DB to learn a lesson, much less realize the error of his lib ways. For that to happen, a lib has to get mugged in some fashion, but not mugged by themselves. That just initiates the lib blame game.

[GOBUCKS]

I don't think he does anything involving writing/updating/maintaining software, and I suspect he has very little access to it - especially since it appears that http://gearhartchevy.com/ is a 'canned' website - produced from a common source, then prettied up for the client.

That's another thing that kind of surprised me oin this deal.

Gearhart Chevy and Schumacher Chevy, both owned by the same hyphenated woman, have really cheap, crude-looking websites. That led me to believe that our buddy Doug Bulna had something to do with both of them.

But I haven't looked at many auto dealer websites. Maybe lots of them are cheap and crude-looking.

[RobJohnson]

But I haven't looked at many auto dealer websites. Maybe lots of them are cheap and crude-looking.

They are and some are much worse.

[RobJohnson]

Not being a computer expert, I'm not certain, but my impression is that a system administrator has access to every detail of the company's operation. Payroll, costs, profits, executive compensation, taxes, email communications, legal issues, everything.

For Doug Bulna, with that kind of access to critical confidential information, to reveal himself as an unbalanced radical leftist should be more than alarming.

If it isn't a firing offense, what would be?

A systems administrator needs to be a trusted individual. Doug has not proved he can be trusted. Even if he made up the story about the remote, that is even more reason not for his employer not to trust him. General Motors has a very strict code of conduct that it's dealerships and the dealership employees must follow. Ethics is pretty important.

Many system administrators have to pass back ground checks so they can be trusted with confidential information. Just imagine a data base full of customer's credit applications, social security numbers, driver license numbers, credit card numbers, bank information and a guy like DB being trusted with such information. That would scare the shit out of me if I was their customer.

[Aristotelian]

I have the feeling that his title as a systems administrator is a bit 'inflated', and that he does little work on the software end of things - that he is a hardware monkey. Hardware replacement. Networking. Answers the age old question "Why won't my computer print ?" Maybe has reloaded an OS or two, or scrubbed an obsolete hard disk. Maybe even keeps the WWW site updated (new pictures, sales, prices, that sort of thing).

I'd guess he's more at the level of putting new paper and ink cartridges into the printers.

[Carl]

http://www.yelp.com/biz/gearhart-chevrolet-denville-5

[BlueStateSaint]

http://www.yelp.com/biz/gearhart-chevrolet-denville-5

Looks like they have a customer service problem in the service department . . . !

[Karin]

Just imagine a data base full of customer's credit applications, social security numbers, driver license numbers, credit card numbers, bank information and a guy like DB being trusted with such information.

Especially if he found out for a fact that the customer was a repuke!  Or God forbid, a fullblown teaparty member.  Or a repuke running for office.  He's so vindictive and hyper-partisan, I can absolutely see him stealing this data, and doing something nefarious with it.  Doug Bulna cannot be trusted. 

[franksolich]

You know, I must say there's a grievous disappointment in learning more about the tax-evading brain-damaged primitive.

As many here know, I form "images" in my imagination, about what primitives look like, based upon their comments and vocabulary.

I did know this primitive was 5'10" and 240 pounds, because he said so.

I did know this primitive was a little bit over sixty, because he said so.

So with that concrete knowledge in hand, I essayed to paint a portrait of him in my mind, based upon his comments.

What I "pictured" was some grey-haired butch-haircutted short bulky guy with a square torso and square head, a perpetual grimace on his face, and with a bug-eye.

Man, did I get that wrong.

[zeitgeist]

You know, I must say there's a grievous disappointment in learning more about the tax-evading brain-damaged primitive.

As many here know, I form "images" in my imagination, about what primitives look like, based upon their comments and vocabulary.

I did know this primitive was 5'10" and 240 pounds, because he said so.

I did know this primitive was a little bit over sixty, because he said so.

So with that concrete knowledge in hand, I essayed to paint a portrait of him in my mind, based upon his comments.

What I "pictured" was some grey-haired butch-haircutted short bulky guy with a square torso and square head, a perpetual grimace on his face, and with a bug-eye.

Man, did I get that wrong.

In the day of live operators I use to form images of them based on their voice.  That was a bad plan too.   I actually got to meet a few and trust me when I say they never looked like I imagined them, many being how shall we say 'a bit stern heavy'  from sitting.