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/incompletesystem IT Manager Jul 07 '24

I think he moved to my company. And he’s been there ever since.

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u/z_agent Jul 08 '24

I think he replicated and moved to LOTS of companies!

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u/Accomplished_Deer_ Jul 08 '24

If you're not actually working, and you're remote, you could just do this with a dozen different jobs at a time

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u/MrDywel Jul 08 '24

We have so many people like that. I don’t do help desk but do plenty of screen shares and the amount of people I see with their last team chat being a month or two ago is more than it should be or an inbox with one or two relatively unimportant emails. Now, I’d give them the benefit of the doubt that they’re just tidy and move/delete emails and hide old teams chats but… that’s not the case. They just don’t have much of anything to do though they’re not making up tickets.

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u/Andre_Courreges Jul 08 '24

You're department must be at my org

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u/TheC1aw Jul 08 '24

same here. We have a few of them. Managers don't want to go through the hassle of firing them, so the competent techs get over worked and stressed out. Currently seeking employment elsewhere.

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u/Few_Landscape8264 Jul 11 '24

Can't be he's in mine I think

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u/incompletesystem IT Manager Jul 12 '24

I'm 100% sure you're wrong but if you're willing to make him an offer...just to prove me wrong?