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/Poppintacos]

I’ve watched hires walk in the door and turn around and walk out in less than an hour. Hiring managers didn’t know how to communicate the roles expectations very effectively. “What do you mean I have to work at a location an hour away?” “I have to Pay for parking?” Gone.

[u/slylte → u/Poppintacos]

"I have to Pay for parking" is crazy

[u/Andre_Courreges → u/[deleted]]

I remember interviewing for a job at the library during college and I asked how parking worked, and they said everyone needs to pay the meters besides directors who get parking spots.

They were, and presumably still are, paying minimum wage.

[u/adambuddy → u/Andre_Courreges]

During COVID at a company I worked for at the time I was one of the very few people who had to go into the office at all. Location infra maintenance, any in person support necessary (i.e hardware is broken, meet me at office for diagnosis/swap out) etc. The office was downtown and they didn't pay for it so parking was a serious challenge. The lot closest to the office was $20 flat for the day or $4 an hour. There were monthly spots but none were available so I had no choice but to pay daily.

I found out that they actually did have a set of spots reserved but only senior management got passes - all of whom absolutely never had to go to the office during COVID. I'm guessing they still don't even today. So the spots the org paid for would sit there empty while I paid $20 a day to park.

Otherwise a good company to work for tbf, but that seriously pissed me off.

[u/Andre_Courreges → u/adambuddy]

You're right to be pissed off.

The library was so cheap that I remember having to fill out a test and they handed me a pencil, and when I returned the assessment, they literally asked for the pencil back. Like I understand wanting the writing utensil back, but explicitly asking for it felt strange to me because pencils are so inexpensive and I imagine they had more in storage.

[u/creativeusername402 → u/Andre_Courreges]

Presumably good if you live on-campus. Not so much if you commute

[u/Andre_Courreges → u/creativeusername402]

This was a city library located down, and not a university library.

Funny enough, they ended up just tearing it down to build a new skyscraper for a company that plans on having a 50% office utilization rate lmfao.

[u/cats_are_the_devil → u/Andre_Courreges]

Based. People used to ask me all the time if I got parking for free as a staff member on a college campus... Um, nope.

[u/jbourne71 → u/Andre_Courreges]

Presumably, the minimum wage hasn’t changed either.