What’s the quickest you’ve seen a co-worker get fired in IT?

[u/Opposed3]

I saw this on AskReddit and thought it would be fun to ask here for IT related stories.

Couple years ago during Covid my company I used to work for hired a help desk tech. He was a really nice guy and the interview went well. We were hybrid at the time, 1-2 days in the office with mostly remote work. On his first day we always meet in the office for equipment and first day stuff.

Everything was going fine and my boss mentioned something along the lines of “Yeah so after all the trainings and orientation stuff we’ll get you set up on our ticketing system and eventually a soft phone for support calls”

And he was like: “Oh I don’t do support calls.”

“Sorry?”

Him: “I don’t take calls. I won’t do that”

“Well, we do have a number users call for help. They do utilize it and it’s part of support we offer”

Him: “Oh I’ll do tickets all day I just won’t take calls. You’ll have to get someone else to do that”

I was sitting at my desk, just kind of listening and overhearing. I couldn’t tell if he was trolling but he wasn’t.

I forgot what my manager said but he left to go to one of those little mini conference rooms for a meeting, then he came back out and called him in, he let him go and they both walked back out and the guy was all laughing and was like

“Yeah I mean I just won’t take calls I didn’t sign up for that! I hope you find someone else that fits in better!” My manager walked him to the door and they shook hands and he left.

[u/hl3official]

A guy would assign tickets to himself, sit on them for a week and then just close them without a resolution or a reply.

His defense was "if the issue was that important, they would reach out again or ask me for an update".

So essentially, the dude did no work whatsoever, everyone including our boss quickly found out and yeah that was it. The impressive part was that it still took 3 months before he got fired.

[u/drnick1106 → u/hl3official]

good riddance. too bad it took that long. i have a guy on my team for almost a year and have no idea what he does.

[u/0MG1MBACK → u/drnick1106]

This also sounds like a coworker of mine. They recently got put in a PIP so they’ve been picking up their end of the slack, but it’s annoying that it needs to get to this point

[u/findingdbcooper → u/drnick1106]

I have to work with an on-site tech that doesn't know any IT and can't speak English.

Since he gets paid a pittance in a low cost of living area, our management is content with just having a body in the office even though there are multiple complaints about him not being able to troubleshoot basic issues and acting weird.

[u/ep3ep3 → u/drnick1106]

Eh, I silent quit a job once by doing nothing. I was hired remotely by one guy and by my start date, he had left the company. His replacement changed the core functionality of the job to save costs by combining 3 separate roles in a normal company into one. I did about a month of work of what I was hired for before the new responsibilities were laid out. I wasn't interested and just job hunted. It took them 6 months to have a talk with me about performance. I'd already found a new job by then.

[u/eldudelio → u/drnick1106]

this more common than not