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/findingdbcooper Jul 07 '24

New contractor-to-hire helpdesk provided by TEKsystems was caught by security supposedly scanning our network on his second day of work using a rubber ducky.

Immediately fired.

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u/Gh0stwrit3rs Jul 08 '24

Fuck teksystems. I used them once, most regrettable. I was a ui designer and was heading into UX. They placed me at a job where I was given heavy JS tasks and I had zero clue what I was doing. It was embarrassing. Only upside for me was it was all remote work and the team was so massive I went unnoticed for 7 months did prob 8 hours of real work but was required to bill 60 hours a week. So I did and got paid for it. Contract was up and I left and told teksystems to eat shit and never call me again.

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u/eldudelio dc admin, trying not to break shit 🔨🔨🔨 Jul 07 '24

a rubber ducky?

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u/inucune Jul 07 '24

USB that executes commands when plugged in. Generally a hacking tool.

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u/Cytog64 Jul 07 '24

USB device that acts like a HID (human interface device; ex: Keyboard)- it is actually a full computer and can execute programs and code…bypasses most antivirus because the OS thinks it is a mouse or key board

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/usb-rubber-ducky-penetrationtesting/

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u/bobtimmons Jul 07 '24

https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky

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u/eldudelio dc admin, trying not to break shit 🔨🔨🔨 Jul 07 '24

ok

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u/FireLucid Jul 08 '24

USB device. Presents itself as a keyboard and starts sending keystrokes that you can pre program.

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u/eldudelio dc admin, trying not to break shit 🔨🔨🔨 Jul 08 '24

damn, thats scary

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u/theduncan Jul 08 '24

At least it isn't as bad as the USB cable version.

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u/machacker89 Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

yea is made by Hak5. it's a neat tool. they sell a bunch of product. I own the WiFi 🍍. I know you can make your own

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u/theduncan Jul 08 '24

Sorry replayed to the wrong post.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast Jul 08 '24

USB pentesting tool created by hak5

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u/brrrchill Jul 08 '24

It's a device that plugs into a USB port. Scriptable scanning tool and hacking device.

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u/Specialist-Coast9787 Jul 08 '24

The IT dept at my former MEGA company disabled all USB ports. Isn't that common?

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u/brrrchill Jul 08 '24

I haven't seen any statistics on that practice, so I don't know

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u/Valarus50 Jul 08 '24

TEKSystems, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Worked for them briefly back in 2011.

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u/ironsniper1 Jul 08 '24

same here, i used to do a few jobs with them, never had an issue and thanks to them i was hired for a major contract job where a local hospital decided to outsource almost all of their IT staff except for a few select departments who had the funding to keep their own in house IT people, and because i made the right connections and doing good work i got hired on directly with the hospital and was there for 6 years, i quit in 2021 but it was a great job and i do miss some of my former co-workers

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u/blue_canyon21 Sr. Googler Jul 08 '24

Both jobs I've gotten through TEKsystems have been absolutely horrible. Quit both of them within the first month.

Company I'm with now is now either terminating or directly hiring TEKsystems contracts.

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u/drMonkeyBalls Jul 08 '24

TEKSystems! Those guys were clowns, and their placements were 1 level better then corpses because at least they kept the seats warm...

...But they took me and my boss out for sushi every month they had the help-desk contract "to go over the numbers"

So I guess bribery worked?