a poor IT admin guy has to manually search for the username of a leaving employee.
Your comment suggests you think IT Admins are told about departing employees, timely or at all.
HR doesn’t trust Staff with that knowledge, even if that Staff member needs to disable an account because we must act quickly to protect the company against the same horrible criminals who enjoyed free reign and ultimate trust as the paragons of virtue they were the MOMENT before they were fired.
Your comment suggests you think IT Admins are told about departing employees, timely or at all.
HR doesn’t trust Staff with that knowledge, even if that Staff member needs to disable an account because we must act quickly to protect the company against the same horrible criminals who enjoyed free reign and ultimate trust as the paragons of virtue they were the MOMENT before they were fired.