"Let go" a few hours into the first day on the job.
A friend had referred me for a sysadmin job opening at a web hosting company in Florida. After a brief interview I got the job for a pretty decent salary and was told when I could start. What they hadn't told me was that my schedule would be tuesday to saturday. I had informed the hiring manager of my preferred schedule (monday-friday), but I guess nobody mentioned it to the manager of the group.
When I got there they told me my schedule and I immediately told them that's not what I signed up for. So they asked me to sit for a while so they could figure out what to do next. I took a tour of the NOC, and saw one of their tier 1 technicians was chatting and watching a movie. I walked up and asked him "Heyya! Workin' hard, or hardly workin'?" and smiled. He did not smile back. So I went back to the desk I was assigned to, which was already logged in - with the credentials of the previous admin.
While I waited I decided to see what other trouble I could get into. Sure enough, all the old passwords were saved in the old admin's browser with no master password. I couldn't copy-paste the list, so I took a screenshot and began to find a way to print the list out to post on my cube wall. Before I could finish I was asked to leave for the day while they figured out my schedule changes. I should have gotten the hint when they asked me to leave the badge there.
Later I got a voicemail telling me they'd pay me for the time I spent there (about three hours) and they'd no longer require my services. Luckily I got hired soon after to a different company, which was also hiring away all the talented people from the place that had let me go, and the web hosting company eventually went under. So it turned out to be a good thing in the end.
Well, not making sure all the terms of the job were met, being flippant to somebody I didn't know at a new job, and digging into someone else's credentials were all pretty murky. But overall it was just getting fired on my first day vs working out the issue over time.
A friend had referred me for a sysadmin job opening at a web hosting company in Florida. After a brief interview I got the job for a pretty decent salary and was told when I could start. What they hadn't told me was that my schedule would be tuesday to saturday. I had informed the hiring manager of my preferred schedule (monday-friday), but I guess nobody mentioned it to the manager of the group.
When I got there they told me my schedule and I immediately told them that's not what I signed up for. So they asked me to sit for a while so they could figure out what to do next. I took a tour of the NOC, and saw one of their tier 1 technicians was chatting and watching a movie. I walked up and asked him "Heyya! Workin' hard, or hardly workin'?" and smiled. He did not smile back. So I went back to the desk I was assigned to, which was already logged in - with the credentials of the previous admin.
While I waited I decided to see what other trouble I could get into. Sure enough, all the old passwords were saved in the old admin's browser with no master password. I couldn't copy-paste the list, so I took a screenshot and began to find a way to print the list out to post on my cube wall. Before I could finish I was asked to leave for the day while they figured out my schedule changes. I should have gotten the hint when they asked me to leave the badge there.
Later I got a voicemail telling me they'd pay me for the time I spent there (about three hours) and they'd no longer require my services. Luckily I got hired soon after to a different company, which was also hiring away all the talented people from the place that had let me go, and the web hosting company eventually went under. So it turned out to be a good thing in the end.