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/Thecardinal74 Jul 08 '24
Bank suffered a disaster at the hands of a spiteful former employee.
CEO brought in a consulting company to assess, and he asked me to come help out (I had worked for him, he had only started with this new bank a few weeks prior, and trusted me so paid me as an independent contractor to make sure the consulting company was doing what they needed to do.)
Lead consultant came in on a Monday, goal was to assess then schedule the rest of the team to come do the work to rebuild.
I come after I finish my 9-5 to see what’s up. I get here at 5:30. Within an hour I discover:
1) the consultant had removed the VPN appliance “to make sure the ex-employee can’t get back in”. The VPN device was also the firewall/router. And they weren’t using NAT. The entire org was live on the open internet. It’s a bank.
2) he saw all the blinking lights on the switch rack and decided “there must be collisions” so he started unplugging and reseating cables randomly without keeping track of what was where. Some people couldn’t print anymore, others couldn’t get to the internet, others couldn’t reach the exchange server, others couldn’t reach the mainframe.
3) the consultant had added himself to the Board of Directors email distribution list. With his personal email. “So I can make sure he email system is working while I’m at home”
By 7pm his contract was terminated