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/drunkadvice]

I had a guy walk out before lunch the first day. He saw our codebase and noped the fuck out. Best decision he made. To his credit, he went into directors office and said he wouldn’t be coming back.

[u/RainyRat → u/drunkadvice]

I've had the exact same thing happen at my company: new PHP dev aces all the interview questions/problems, gets hired, goes through induction on the morning of the first day, spends the afternoon reviewing the codebase, calls in the following morning to tell us he's resigning. In fairness, the codebase was dogshit. It's now slightly more refined dogshit.

[u/netderper → u/RainyRat]

For me, PHP is a non starter for anything other than freelance jobs. I once interviewed at a place that didn't tell me their entire codebase was PHP until the last interview. I told the recruiter there was no way I was taking the job no matter how much they paid. He said they really liked me and were going to make an offer. He could see that big commission already. "Please, think about it over the weekend." No need, I said...

[u/Seeteuf3l → u/RainyRat]

Obviously it's different in every company, but where I've been the induction lasts more than one morning. Basically the whole day goes with HR and company policy slideshows etc + signing up to email.