There were several ridiculous things she got away with and these weren’t even what was cited as the reason they fired her.

-Stole the company Thanksgiving turkey

-She would take every single snack in the office and shove them all inside her desk.

-At one point she was trying to build a gaming PC at home and took the RAM out of her work desktop. She then came running to IT because her computer wouldn’t work.

-Fried the wiring in a whole section of cubicles by running multiple plug-in heaters at once.

Yep. Everyone has learning moments where they’re an asshole at some point though. At the time I was concerned about keeping my job. I think the part that matters is if you reflect and learn from the situation.

I once had HR and my boss tell me to disable a user’s account at 8am because they were going to fire this woman. 8:30 rolls around and she shows up, super upset she can’t sign into anything. I tell her I’ll see what I can find, thinking that will delay the inevitable.

Nope. Her team lead took another two hours before he could be bothered to get to her. When I asked everyone what I should say to the increasingly stressed woman, I was told I should lie and say that there’s a domain controller issue.

They finally got around to firing her and she gave me the worst look on her way out the door. She definitely had it coming for some of the stuff she did, like stealing an entire Thanksgiving turkey meant to share with the whole company. But that is probably the worst moment I’ve had in my IT career so far.

Now if someone tells me to pull a stunt like that I just say no. They need to figure out their plan instead of forcing IT to lie.

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That sounds like some interesting reading. Any chance you could cite/link something? Having a hard time finding anything related to this particular topic.