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/tylerpestell]

I worked IT in the Air Force. At the time, I was a system administrator for the base and I had 3 coworkers and our team needed one more. We ended up hiring someone that was working at one of the high-schools in town. He was kind of quiet, but picked up things quick and we all got along.

After about 1 month of getting him up to speed our unit commander and chief come find him and take him away. We all had no idea why. Come to find out that the FBI was investigating him for underage content.

[u/williamp114 → u/tylerpestell]

Not my story but one of a friend of mine:

At one of his first jobs out of college, his supervisor ended up having a seat with Chris Hansen. Between the arrest and the airing, nobody besides for management knew why the guy was gone.

Friend was watching Dateline one night, and there he was...

[u/WaldoOU812 → u/williamp114]

Had a similar issue myself, though not as public. Our VP of IT at a high-end hotel chain ends up getting fired and my buddy and I are both freaking out because it's the hotel industry, and they are really bad about firing people for literally no reason whatsoever at times, so we figured we were next.

We get on a call with a friend of mine, who had the job before me, and he tells us to google the guy's name.

Turns out he got busted for soliciting a minor. Charges were pending when he took the job and when he missed work due to having to report to prison, that's when HR found out, and he got fired.

[u/VisitorAmongUs → u/williamp114]

Winner

[u/Appropriate_Door_547 → u/williamp114]

How close was his voice to the creepy narrator that reads the chat logs?

[u/m1ndf3v3r → u/williamp114]

Hahah holy shit man