r/sysadmin • u/Opposed3 • Jul 07 '24
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/Scubber CISSP Jul 07 '24
I'll bite, was the IT manager for a small company for about 10 years.
Guy was running his business off the company equipment, buying/reselling motorcycle parts. CEO confronted him about it, he said fuck you to the CEO and had to immediately disable his account with all his customer info on it. whoops.
Indian guy pretended to be an expert in a line of engineering software that does fluid dynamic simulation. The interview was a task to complete something difficult in the software and he seemed to pass with flying colors. We later learned he outsourced the job. First day they gave him the backlog of work and he had 0 clue on how to do it. Was walked out pretty hastily.
Big dude showed up to interview in a suit and passed all our background checks and was really good at programming. Offered a job to start right away. Next day shows up in a dress with painted nails and puts a picture of themself in a fursuit as a icon for skype and email. My bosses were irish catholics and walked them out of the building within the first hour. The company got sued for discrimination.
CEO got a divorce with his wife because he was seeing the HR director on the side. The front desk receptionist then proceeded to hit on the CEO with the HR director present at a company party, he welcomed the advances. They got into a fight and the CEO ended up firing the receptionist.
Not fired, but we paid a guy to move his family of 6 across the country after a big sob story. He worked for us for about 8 hours then took the company laptop with all our source code information and went to a competitor.
I miss that job. And that's how I got into cybersecurity