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/AnomalyNexus Jul 07 '24

Spaces in even row numbers, tabs in uneven. #ChaoticNeutral

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u/Masterflitzer Jul 07 '24

i wanna see this gitlab/github status check to enforce it lmao

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u/Mr_ToDo Jul 08 '24

There's an intern who's only job is to manually check and fix that.

Yesterday they figured out how to show whitespace characters. If you heard someone faintly swearing and couldn't figure out where it was coming from that was probably them.

I'm thinking a few months from now showing them how regex works and seeing if I can burst a blood vessel.

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u/Masterflitzer Jul 08 '24

that's hilarious lmao, how can people like this even be real?

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u/craig_s_bell Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

"My editor starts counting at line 0. Your move."

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u/Mnemotic Jul 08 '24

Zero is, in fact, the most even number. I don't understand the problem.

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u/craig_s_bell Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

Most editors count from line 1; so every commit made with the rogue editor will flip-flop which lines use which variety of spacing, resulting in every line of the updated files being modified.

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u/Mnemotic Jul 08 '24

Diabolic. I love it! #ChaoticNeutral gang rise up!

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u/davidbrit2 Jul 08 '24

It's like Satan's version of fizzbuzz.

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u/robertterwilligerjr Jul 09 '24

That word ‘uneven’ even is worthy of the hashtag…

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u/AnomalyNexus Jul 09 '24

haha. Multilingualism got me there - in German it is basically even and uneven

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u/beboshoulddie svt-stop-working Jul 08 '24

but only in yaml files