Could involve quitting a job with flair, walking out of an interview, or working around a dumbass boss/coworker during a Zoom meeting.

If anything just make it a "general work stories" thread

  • cawsby [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I worked support desk during undergrad at my college.

    Our team comprised of myself, five other undergrads, and two admin staff. One of the admin staff was a creep who kept a huge - at the time - encrypted porn stash on his personal computer that he bragged about inexplicably to the male students, including me. In the summer only one of the admins was on site and the other remote. The admins both had a beeper that we could ping and codes to tell them where to go on campus. One day during the summer the creepy guy came in and told us he only wanted to be disturbed if it was truly an emergency about an hour before close. Me and the other guy working the desk realized he was probably going to go into his office and whack it.

    After a quick lunch I came back and he had still not left his office. A call came in from the chancellor about a laptop issue about 30 minutes before we were going to close shop. We could have fixed it easily, but chose not to, telling the chancellor we would escalate it to the admin. We then pinged the other admin telling him to call us, and we told him we had not seen the other admin all day. The other admin - who lived nearby - said he would drive down and meet the chancellor at our shop and we could lock up and go home early. We closed shop and waited to see what would happen in the adjacent computer lab.

    The admin offices were down a long hallway past the server rooms and had locked doors, but any admin staff with a badge could open them. When the other admin came in he met the chancellor at our shop window, and then proceeded down the hallway to his own office. He opened his office, and then stepped across the corridor to the other admin's office swiping his keycard. The other admin was indeed whacking it, and many what the fucks were heard, shouting, and then eventually crying. I don't handle lots of drama well so I left at that point. He was shitcanned that day, and the next week we had the university's first female admin for our shop. She was cool, she always brought in fresh muffins/doughnuts on the weekends.