Three years destroying work computers with Cillit Bang
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Three years destroying work computers with Cillit Bang
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -Bang.html
Disgruntled employee spends three years destroying work computers with Cillit Bang
In a three-year sabotage spree he repeatedly squirted the caustic cleaning fluid into the company's computers, causing system failures and £32,000 worth of damage.
His employers eventually installed CCTV cameras in the offices and when they caught the 44-year-old embarking on one of his Cillit Bang missions.
Edward Sobolewski was today starting a eight month jail sentence after a judge ordered him to also pay £10,000 costs for his "malicious" attacks.
The accounts controller admitted causing the damage at the Oxford office of market research company Frost and Sullivan because he was "p-----d off" after not getting a pay increase.
He routinely used Cillit Bang - famous for its advertising catchphrase "bang and the dirt is gone" - to bring the firm's IT systems to a halt between 2009 and 2012.
Prosecutor Steve Malloy QC told a judge at Oxford Crown Court that managers had light-sensitive cameras placed in the firm's server room after they suspected foul play.
He said: "On Saturday, June 30 2012, Mr Sobolewski was seen on the CCTV camera in the main server room at a time he should not have been in there at all.
"He entered into the room with a distinctive purple bottle of Cillit Bang and the following day he was seen spraying it into the computer grills and then wiping the excess fluid away with a cloth.
"He is then seen pouring a container of liquid into one of the machines."
When challenged by his managers, Sobolewski initially said he was merely cleaning the servers.
(continued, wiping the discs clean the Cilit Bang way)
Disgruntled employee spends three years destroying work computers with Cillit Bang
In a three-year sabotage spree he repeatedly squirted the caustic cleaning fluid into the company's computers, causing system failures and £32,000 worth of damage.
His employers eventually installed CCTV cameras in the offices and when they caught the 44-year-old embarking on one of his Cillit Bang missions.
Edward Sobolewski was today starting a eight month jail sentence after a judge ordered him to also pay £10,000 costs for his "malicious" attacks.
The accounts controller admitted causing the damage at the Oxford office of market research company Frost and Sullivan because he was "p-----d off" after not getting a pay increase.
He routinely used Cillit Bang - famous for its advertising catchphrase "bang and the dirt is gone" - to bring the firm's IT systems to a halt between 2009 and 2012.
Prosecutor Steve Malloy QC told a judge at Oxford Crown Court that managers had light-sensitive cameras placed in the firm's server room after they suspected foul play.
He said: "On Saturday, June 30 2012, Mr Sobolewski was seen on the CCTV camera in the main server room at a time he should not have been in there at all.
"He entered into the room with a distinctive purple bottle of Cillit Bang and the following day he was seen spraying it into the computer grills and then wiping the excess fluid away with a cloth.
"He is then seen pouring a container of liquid into one of the machines."
When challenged by his managers, Sobolewski initially said he was merely cleaning the servers.
(continued, wiping the discs clean the Cilit Bang way)
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Re: Three years destroying work computers with Cillit Bang
You do realise that a parody thread would be far too easy, don't you? 

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This is the wrong forum for bluffing

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This idea....can't be parodied only copied.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:You do realise that a parody thread would be far too easy, don't you?
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Do they have Cif where you live? It's appeared in this country via the relatively recent burgeoning here of Lidls. My late father-in-law found it most amusing, because in his army days it was the term they applies to gay men. He said it was like having a kitchen cleaner called "Poof".
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One of those weird advertising types could use this in a new ad campaign for the stuff...
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Re: Three years destroying work computers with Cillit Bang
What a tard. You don't sabotage the hardware you suborn the network and sell the data to a competitor for a tidy profit.
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Cif is what used to be Jif.John_fi_Skye wrote:Do they have Cif where you live? It's appeared in this country via the relatively recent burgeoning here of Lidls. My late father-in-law found it most amusing, because in his army days it was the term they applies to gay men. He said it was like having a kitchen cleaner called "Poof".
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Cillit and Ciff - can't read those words without thinking od STDs. 

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The only cif I knew for years was the dreaded syph, or syphilis.
It's clearing up now, though.
It's clearing up now, though.
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What the fuck is Cillit Bang?
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Kitchen cleaner crap. Low market and stupid loud adverts sell it.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:What the fuck is Cillit Bang?
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