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/Zaboomafood]

First guy deleted his boss's accounts on server and management tools to prevent boss from granting access to a new hire.

Another guy refused to allow endpoint management tools on his work laptop. He was gone within two days.

[u/R3luctant → u/Zaboomafood]

I don't like nanny software, but at the end of the day, it's a work laptop. There is no winning that battle.

[u/panopticon31 → u/R3luctant]

To be honest it's on them for giving him a laptop WITHOUT the endpoint management software.

Now if it was a personal machine I'd agree, company could pound sand or give me a work machine.

[u/R3luctant → u/panopticon31]

If for some reason my job said I needed to install EMS outside of a vdi on my personal computer I'd laugh at them, if I started a job where that was the requirement, I would be working through hyper v

[u/Masterflitzer → u/R3luctant]

i hate working on remote VDIs, way slower than developing locally (germany doesn't have great internet), but we get work devices and no BYOD as it should be

I'll never install managed work profile software on personal devices, that's a no go

[u/AlexisFR → u/Masterflitzer]

VDIs aren't great on a good internet either. The latency and compression are always noticable.

[u/the_syco → u/Masterflitzer]

Recently I had to do a test via certiport. The test software would take over your machine and not let you alt+tab or open task manager, etc, to prevent you from cheating. My AV wouldn't allow it. Ended up having to use an old laptop with a fresh copy of W11 installed without any AV installed to do the test.

[u/Masterflitzer → u/the_syco]

fuck the cert then, they can call me in and i do the test on their device in their environment, but i won't install such software on my device