When you can just call the BSA on most companies.

Eddie Shoestring? Left his IT job after going wild in the server room?

Then took up a far more boring career in investigative radio...

When was that? 1979 apparently.

I think this is ludicrous. This might be a bit idealistic, but how about working to ensure that staff don't become disgruntled, rather than limiting access and therefore limiting the ability to do the job? What disgruntles me most in my job? Not having the access I need to be effective.

Old habits die hard ,and some people have been using dirty tricks to keep their jobs for decades. The addition of computers doesn't change their behavior beware of coworkers/employees who seem confident for no reason.

In plain English that would "fired", "dismissed" or "sacked", wouldn't it? In reality, these are not people that management were desperately hoping to continue to employ but, for inexplicable reasons, slipped through their fingers and somehow ended up without a job.

Let's not collude with those who would denature the language with management and political unspeak to distract everyone from their culpability.

An (ex-)employee does not become disgruntled without a reason.

Since I am not in that category at the moment, am I "gruntled" or "antidisgruntled"?

>" a 9/11 emergency phone number/address look-up system "

No, you mean a 911 emergency phone system! The emergency number pre-dates the event, you may remember...

In some organizations, "disgruntled technicians" might very well describe the entire workforce, given work conditions. I think these organizations should start caring about them and treating them better, therefore diminishing this risk.

Of course, security issues should also be taken into account, I know as a fact that given some security blunders, I could have caused great havoc on some former jobs if I had no ethical standards...

The vulture had a close encounter with the overworked IT staff and was mistaken for the Boss...

"Since I am not in that category at the moment, am I "gruntled" or "antidisgruntled"?"

I believe that makes you predisgruntled

I think it will rather hard to stop the sysadmins from having access to the system...

And well, what if the antepredisgruntled employee is the one who is actually supposed to have access to the system?