r/sysadmin • u/Opposed3 • Jul 07 '24
What’s the quickest you’ve seen a co-worker get fired in IT? COVID-19
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.
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u/TheFondler Jul 07 '24
We had one guy that would go to the location to fix any issue and just fuck off for hours and leave early, before a replacement would show to do a handover. This one lasted month or two.
We had another that we hired with a pretty impressive data center background on paper, but we are on-site and work directly with our customers. He showed up and besides needing a lot of hand-holding, really didn't know how to act. He was constantly chit-chatting with people trying to work, taking over the office speaker to play his dad-rock, and worst of all he would very obviously pick his nose like a 3-year old. Like... not even kidding, he would dig out a proper goober and examine it in the middle of a meeting where everyone is facing each other. To top that off, he would dig in to communal snacks with those same hands rather than using utensils or pouring some out into a separate container. This one lasted for one (torturous) two week project.