InfoWorld has a great summary of the Terry Childs case

Sorting Out Fact from Fiction in the Terry Childs Case

I find this case just fascinating.

Of course management wants to hire employees with independence and initiative, so that things can be "just taken care of." And yet to delegate means to lose control, and it's not uncommon for there to be just this sort of panic when someone realizes how little control they actually have.

What's hilarious and charming about this case is how unwarranted the panic is- the network is, and always was, stable and operational- and the unspeakable technical ignorance that every aspect of this case reveals. It's clear that his supervisors had no idea what his job actually was or what's common practice in the industry, and now the court system has no idea how to articulate, let alone prove or disprove, the crimes they are accusing him of.