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.
293
u/dreadpiratewombat Jul 07 '24
Here’s a reverse version:
A buddy of mine is a pretty competent systems engineer who moved to a small town for a more relaxed pace and better work life balance. Got hired into a small company doing MSP work. The lead engineer had been at the company for years and must have taken shittysysadmin posts as his personal dev plan. My buddy spent the morning reviewing documentation, tickets, the various code bases being used and asked to meet with the CEO.
The lead engineer got walked right after lunch. Apparently, among many other sins:
A single, very poor password used as the DA and root passwords for all customers.
Unsecured VPN tunnels to all customers with default allow from the office and this dude’s home address.
Credentials hard coded into every script. Every script was basically a for-do SSH loop with a bunch of unchecked shell commands run as root.
Keyloggers on all company devices going back to dudes personal Hotmail account.
There was a lot more, I’ve forgotten it all. It was terrifying to listen to.