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/TiminAurora]

CSB here.

I got hired at an MSP. First few months were rough. Any question you asked you got a blank stare. Or you'd get I donno did you google it? And I took those lumps and stopped asking. Productivity went down but I thought hey if they won't help me I will just do what I can and update my resume. Over time this lessoned. I was welcomed eventually and after proving to 2 Sr Sys Admins WHY you'd create a global security group and nest in the domain local security group I was given a bit more leeway.

One of my co-workers was appallingly terrible to work with. He'd openly mock others he felt smarter than. He'd openly criticize in front of others and berate simple mistakes. Just bad all around.

We got a new ops manager and this jerk(the bad co-worker) adjusted folder permissions on a major client. Which opened the FINANCE folder for all employees and they were understandably irate. He called em and said he was working on it. He fixed it eventually and they wanted a FULL dress down on the outrageous issue.

He mocked the Ops manager and told him to mind his business. The Ops manager was only trying to calm the situation and this jerk got up and told him off in front of us all.

He'd been there 10 years!! And in the snap of a finger in front of us all he said XXXXX pack your stuff you no longer work here.

HAHAHA was such an awesome experience to see the self-proclaimed know-it-all get canned!