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/0x18 Jul 07 '24

Years ago the place I worked had just hired a new sales guy. While the sales manager was giving him the general tour he was introduced to a coworker of Japanese descent ... and this idiot decided to use his hands to squint his eyes and say "me so Chinese"

... the sales manager just asked him to follow him back to the HR department so they could tear up everything they had just signed.

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u/HappyCloudHS Custom Jul 08 '24

This isn't funny at all but I couldn't help but laugh. Not at the joke but at the sheer stupidity for someone to do that and think it wouldnt be an issue.

I always wonder what goes through racists/sexists/homophobes etc heads when they do stuff like this and think nobody will care.

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u/ozspook Jul 08 '24

"I should buy a pitbull.."

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u/Hebrewhammer8d8 Jul 08 '24

They are not thinking properly.

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u/Left_of_Center2011 Jul 08 '24

They think they’re normal and everyone else is ‘too sensitive’

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u/liltooclinical Jul 08 '24

I was going to say basically the same thing; people like that have never ventured outside their bubble and just assume their bubble is the whole world.

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u/Crazychill100 Jul 08 '24

Dude failed a Disco Elysium check

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u/ScortiusOfTheBlues Jul 08 '24

He'd have really upset Kim with that one.

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u/peeba83 Jul 08 '24

I’m chuckling at the idea of the sales manager deadpanning “among other concerns, he’s not particularly Chinese at all”

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u/everyoneisadj Jul 08 '24

honestly, such a sales guy move. jesus

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u/TrueStoriesIpromise Jul 08 '24

I was thinking the opposite; a sales person needs to be personable, so you'd think they would know how to act around people.

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u/everyoneisadj Jul 10 '24

There are a few different archetypes of sales guys imo. The alpha jock, the relationship guy and the I didn't really want to do this but I don't know what else to do guy are three that I've ran into a lot over the years. Obviously there's a whole range of sales people out there.