New hire shows up to an empty office with no one to train him, ends up collecting a paycheck for 7 months before someone notices

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  • An employee falls asleep at his desk in an empty office.
  • Boss forgot the new hire

    Once upon a time I was working in IT corporate. The team was fully remote but not officially.
  • The boss just moved 3 hours away during times and the C never came back. We were supposed to be hybrid but somehow it shrinked to one on site meeting every 3- 4 months.
  • We got a new hire. Usually that meant a day or two in advance the boss would call me or other coworker living nearby to came to the office and greet them and then 3 months period when somebody needs to be in the office on daily basis to train them.
  • But somehow the boss totally forgot about this person. The guy came first day on the while company new hires meeting, when they pumped him up how awesome and groundbreaking we are.
  • Next day he came to our office and it was empty. So was the day after.
  • An employee carries a box of belongings in an empty office.
  • After a week or so he just gave up and stopped coming back. Nobody knew, nobody noticed.
  • We had rotating nightshifts. Once per month or so you would have to take phone calls and solve the issues on the application.
  • There was some automated excel file which would a ing coworkers for this shifts. Each newbie had a half year grace period to learn the ropes without these night shifts.
  • So on one random meeting the guy currently on them is asking, who is the person he should switch it with as he never saw this name before.
  • It turned out that the newbie tried to call to boss couple times, went directly to the spam call folder and was never contacted back.
  • He was been collecting the wages for 7 months and working for half a year in different company already.
  • No regrets from his side and he is still my hero till today!
  • omnihash-cz Original Poster's Reply Boss was great, just the last person who should be responsible for leading anybody.
  • Gonpostlscott So boss fired him because boss is an idiot.... Wow! But guy got free pay for 7 months due to boss being an idiot! Nice!

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