‘Buddy, you're not special’: New hire throws a public fit after not getting the office he wanted, leading coworkers to report him and get him fired in response

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Sep 17, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

When people start new jobs, usually, they tend to keep their heads low and just survive the first couple of weeks. That does not mean they do not make friends, or do their job as well as they can, it just means that they try not to cause any trouble, or stir up issues for other people in the company.

The new hire in this story didn't get the memo on how one should behave at a new job, and if there is one person who should have kept their heads down, it is this guy. Right of the bat, he behaved like an entitled toddler, which unsurprisingly led to him being quickly let go. Not only did he throw a fit because he didn't get the desk he wanted for his office, he also decided to yell at the front desk clerk because of that, who reported him to HR in response. This led the new hire's supervisor to discover that he lied in his resume, which cut short the guy's career at the company…

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    Engineer demands special desk, gets fired instead
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    This happened at work last year, thought you all would like it. So I work for a big tech company, as a building maintenance tech. I do repairs, handle contractors, move
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    office furniture, that kind of thing. But most of my coworkers are tech types with engineering degrees. Some of them are nice, down to earth kind of people, but
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    many of them let their "importance" go to their heads. This guy though, takes the cake. So we had a very very nice desk set aside in an empty office. It
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    was meant to be moved to the office of one of our bigwigs. But she was out of town for a few months, so we were storing it until we had her input on what
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    she wanted removed to make room for it. This low-level, new hire engineer decided to set up shop in the spare room we were keeping the desk in. He was told
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    that as long as his supervisor ok- ed it, he could stay, but that we would be coming to get the desk any day and not to get attached.
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    Well the day comes to move the desk and this guy. Lost. His. He was ped. Yelling that he deserved that desk, he was an engineer, how dare we. My team
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    just kind of shrugged and took the desk anyway, so he turned his rage onto the poor front desk guy, for some reason. Just went off.
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    Well front desk guy doesn't take from anyone and got the guy's supervisor and HR involved, which opened up an investigation into Mr. Bigshot Engineer. And
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    guess what they found? He'd lied on his resume! He was in no way qualified for his position! I guess a fresh set of eyes saw some kind of red flag the hiring manager
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    hadn't. So yeah, he was promptly fired. Amazing that he almost got away with it and blew it over a dumb desk.
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    cipherjones 18h ago The guy is totally wrong in how he acted. But if everyone doesn't have a desk and it's not a startup, he dodged a bet AND now has the job on their resume. Lol.
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    • icspn OP 17h ago No, to be clear, he had his own office. He just wanted this OTHER office instead.
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    FunkyPete 2d ago As a manager of engineers, at that point it doesn't really matter to me whether he lied on his resume or not. He's getting a meeting with HR present talking about respecting
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    other employees, and that his title doesn't give him the right to yell at anyone who is working here, including the front desk guy, the facilities people who move desks around, the janitor, and the people
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    who replace the coffee pods in the break room. That's a one-warning type thing. The resume lie definitely makes it easier to clean this up without the one warning though.
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    icspn OP 2d ago I'm glad to hear you say that! It does seem to be the norm for higher ups, luckily. Most of the really snooty types are fresh graduates and new hires. I don't know if it's just age and experience, or if the bad eggs
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    aren't given the opportunity to rise in the ranks or what. So we see you, good managers, you're our favorites! But yeah, some of these 20- something tech bro guys really think they're hot . It's pretty
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    funny when there's 200 of them working in the building. "I'm an engineer!" Buddy, you're all engineers, it doesn't make you special lol.
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    Weird PinkHair • 2d ago I'm a great believer that everyone needs to work in catering or cleaning for 6 months, in their late teens. Polishes off the attitude and shows them they're no better than anyone else. And makes them appreciate all their colleagues, no matter who they are.
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    bebealex35.2d ago One wld think if you lied on your resume and still on probation, you wld keep the lowest of low profiles except for your work being excellent. Almost had the brass ring and lost it over a desk that he was told wld never be his anyway. Captain El Stupido
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    Special_Assist_4247 • 2d ago Corporate America rule #1 is never ever ever yell at the front desk people. Ever. They know everyone and can put you in a world of hurt with a whisper. I worked at a place that had a strict badge policy, and I would
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    forget mine almost once a week. The head facility guy looked at me once (he had been with the company forever and was an unofficial advisor to the CEO) and said the only reason I never had to meet with hr over my badge was bc of how polite I was with his staff...
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    DyzRobertson • 1d ago Engineer for 33 years (F61), I have always believed and taught, respect the operators—they know more than you do with your degree. If you stay open minded and communicate with people you might just learn how to be useful.
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    EffervescentGoose 1d ago The lesson here is that there are always people ready to ruin your life over a minor inconvenience, be respectful.
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    JedBartlettPear • 2d ago I'm cng to know what was so great about this desk
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    . icspn OP 20h ago I mean, really, it was just a desk. It was nice, it cost a lot, but a desk is a desk imo. But this one had a hardwood top and a hydraulic system to change the height.
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