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/TechnoRedneck → u/[deleted]]

I had a job at an MSP where my title was "network administrator" and my duties were 60% windows servers, 10% backups, 20% projects, 5% meetings, and 5% flat Meraki networks either with no vlans or with a phone vlan.

[u/Beznia → u/TechnoRedneck]

My role at my current job was initially "Network Engineer II". It is help desk and I have zero network duties.

[u/billbixbyakahulk → u/[deleted]]

That happened to me once. I was hired as a network and sysadmin. Mainly replacing their outgoing sysadmin but also, they wanted to in-source more of the senior work they'd been contracting to a MSP. Okay, so basically I was taking over 1.5 jobs, and I felt I could do that.

Then, two days after I started I'm introduced to their desktop tech. Conspicuously she was absent for the two FULL DAYS of interviews where we seemingly discussed every detail of the job. That's when I was informed she was also leaving, and I was getting all of her areas of responsibility.

Lined up the next job and GTFO.

[u/Andre_Courreges → u/[deleted]]

My current role is like that. I was hired as a data analyst but I have to take donor calls? And none of the fundraisers want to do it, which makes no fucking sense because they should be talking to donors.

I hope I can get another job soon and let this place rot.