Latest Tech Fiasco...

So, early September I hired this tech who was supposed to be the greatest
tech on earth- just ask him, he will tell you...

He just moved here from Texas...

He was not all that great- he was competant, but not great by any means...

But, he was high maintenance- VERY high maintenance. He needed his ego
stroked ALL the time. Every time he finished a PC, he was always talking
about how great he was- "Look, I finished it in 2 hours." "Isnt it great,
I made you another $50 bucks.", etc. Every time he was on a service call,
he would call me from the call when he finished to let me know how great
he was- he was done, etc....

He refused to bring in any tools. He insisted it was *MY* responsibility
to supply him with his hand tools, etc. He broke THREE of my shop
screwdrivers. Yes, he literally SNAPPED the tips off of two screwdrivers,
and snapped the entire shaft off of one of my fine jewellers scredrivers.

And, he argued with me all the freaking time. He talked about how much
better he is at this stuff, etc. How he has better bench workstations.
How he has better software tools, etc. But one of the big things was
McAfee vs Norton. As anyone here might already know, I am a big fan of
Norton, and refuse to use McAfee. He would constantly argue with me- and
I would have to repeatedly tell him he was not to use mcafee in my shop.
He would promptly ignore me until I caught him using it again- and again.

He wold also bring in his personal portable computer to use as a bench
machine- he did not like my bench machines. Again, i would tell him not
to, etc- but he would bring it in again within a few days of me telling
him not to, etc.

Before I went on vacation, while I was once again remnding him NOT to use
his personal PC and NOT to use McAfee he made a comment about how before
he is done, he will prove to me McAfee was better.

Well, while I was on vacation, he decided to quit- for this mythical
80k/yr job in Sarasota (about 3 hours south). But then, when he was
talking to one of the other techs, the job was in Jacksonville (4 hours in
the opposite direction). But, before he left, he disabled Norton
Antivirus on every workstation he had access to and injected 6 different
viruses into my network.

I had to come home early from my vacation because the remaining techs were
telling me everything was acting goofy, and nothing was working. I came
home to find myself completely out of business. We could not produce a
damned thing. We could not process jobs (invoices, etc) because the
workstations were down, we could not work on PCs because all the bench
machines were down. My quickbooks file was destroyed (forntuately, I had
joust logged in from NY like two days before and did my backups).

The absolute quickest way to get back in business was to wipe the
workstations and reload- THEN I could start working on client machines-
which were backing up heavily!

Well, once I had things up and running, and while I was wiping I grabbed
the viruses to floppy, along with other specific documentation, I then
called the Sheriff's Office. Like he did not think i was going to put him
in jail????

Ya know, he was going to be fired when I came back from vacation anyway,
but I think jail suits him better.

Oh, and I talked to his previous employer in Texas. Since the time when I
called for a work reference and the time he did his thing when he quit,
his previous employer discovered he stole some computer equipment and a
hard drive with data on it from a client. The employer contact the police
and he is now facing grand theft charges in Texas too!

There is OH SO MUCH more, but this is getting long enough now...

Ghost

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:08:10 GMT, (Ghost) wrote:

>So, early September I hired this tech who was supposed to be the greatest
>tech on earth- just ask him, he will tell you...
>
>He just moved here from Texas...
>


Wow, sounds like you found a real winner there. But don't judge the
rest of us in Texas based on that guy. If only I could find a job
here, and we have guys doing that kind of thing.

JesseTX

Hey Ghost,

Broke 3 of your screwdrivers?? on what, those pesky case screws? Didn't he
know you need an air hammer for those??!?? (j/k...)

Ghost, you seem like one of the few good guys, sorry to hear that this guy
made your life a living hell for a while. There's two types of people in
this world, those that dazzle you with brilliance, and those that baffle you
with bullshit. The other part of that one is the difference between a wise
man and a fool, a wise man keeps his mouth shut, and lets people wonder if
he's a fool or not, the fool opens his mouth and removes all doubt. Sure
sounds like this yahoo was part of the latter on both accounts.

To try and cheer you up, lemme leave you with this thought. Ever hear about
the know-it-all tech that found out he couldn't cut it in the field, and
decided to blow up a bus? He burnt his lips on the tailpipe....


Hoot



"Ghost" <> wrote in message
news:user-2611031908110001@1.0.0.101...
> So, early September I hired this tech who was supposed to be the greatest
> tech on earth- just ask him, he will tell you...
>
> He just moved here from Texas...
>
> He was not all that great- he was competant, but not great by any means...
>
> But, he was high maintenance- VERY high maintenance. He needed his ego
> stroked ALL the time. Every time he finished a PC, he was always talking
> about how great he was- "Look, I finished it in 2 hours." "Isnt it great,
> I made you another $50 bucks.", etc. Every time he was on a service call,
> he would call me from the call when he finished to let me know how great
> he was- he was done, etc....
>
> He refused to bring in any tools. He insisted it was *MY* responsibility
> to supply him with his hand tools, etc. He broke THREE of my shop
> screwdrivers. Yes, he literally SNAPPED the tips off of two screwdrivers,
> and snapped the entire shaft off of one of my fine jewellers scredrivers.
>
> And, he argued with me all the freaking time. He talked about how much
> better he is at this stuff, etc. How he has better bench workstations.
> How he has better software tools, etc. But one of the big things was
> McAfee vs Norton. As anyone here might already know, I am a big fan of
> Norton, and refuse to use McAfee. He would constantly argue with me- and
> I would have to repeatedly tell him he was not to use mcafee in my shop.
> He would promptly ignore me until I caught him using it again- and again.
>
> He wold also bring in his personal portable computer to use as a bench
> machine- he did not like my bench machines. Again, i would tell him not
> to, etc- but he would bring it in again within a few days of me telling
> him not to, etc.
>
> Before I went on vacation, while I was once again remnding him NOT to use
> his personal PC and NOT to use McAfee he made a comment about how before
> he is done, he will prove to me McAfee was better.
>
> Well, while I was on vacation, he decided to quit- for this mythical
> 80k/yr job in Sarasota (about 3 hours south). But then, when he was
> talking to one of the other techs, the job was in Jacksonville (4 hours in
> the opposite direction). But, before he left, he disabled Norton
> Antivirus on every workstation he had access to and injected 6 different
> viruses into my network.
>
> I had to come home early from my vacation because the remaining techs were
> telling me everything was acting goofy, and nothing was working. I came
> home to find myself completely out of business. We could not produce a
> damned thing. We could not process jobs (invoices, etc) because the
> workstations were down, we could not work on PCs because all the bench
> machines were down. My quickbooks file was destroyed (forntuately, I had
> joust logged in from NY like two days before and did my backups).
>
> The absolute quickest way to get back in business was to wipe the
> workstations and reload- THEN I could start working on client machines-
> which were backing up heavily!
>
> Well, once I had things up and running, and while I was wiping I grabbed
> the viruses to floppy, along with other specific documentation, I then
> called the Sheriff's Office. Like he did not think i was going to put him
> in jail????
>
> Ya know, he was going to be fired when I came back from vacation anyway,
> but I think jail suits him better.
>
> Oh, and I talked to his previous employer in Texas. Since the time when I
> called for a work reference and the time he did his thing when he quit,
> his previous employer discovered he stole some computer equipment and a
> hard drive with data on it from a client. The employer contact the police
> and he is now facing grand theft charges in Texas too!
>
> There is OH SO MUCH more, but this is getting long enough now...

hootnholler

Da-aum

Geez Ghost - as a past business owner and a long time manager I surely know
how you feel with having your trust abused. I just hope that your law
system down there does the right thing and nails him good and proper.
Incompetance is one thing, but to intentionally sabotage an employer you are
leaving is freakin low .... wonder if it counts as terrorism? Throw the punk
down in guantanamo bay and leave him, there for a year of three ... lol

I do have to say though, at least you are able to sort the damage through
and set things right in fairly short time. We had a *nix expert who started
a couple weeks before I did leave us recently. Unfortunately several large
client who were talked into running redhat servers are rather ****ed at us
after their machines started to fall over and cost them down time. So bad
was this guy that with one client who was having a large internet usage
account he set a cron job to disconnect the modem between 7pm and 7am ....
just forgot to write another to tell the modem to wake up again .... lol

RussS

In article <user-2611031908110001@1.0.0.101>, says...

> But one of the big things was
>McAfee vs Norton. As anyone here might already know, I am a big fan of
>Norton, and refuse to use McAfee. He would constantly argue with me- and
>I would have to repeatedly tell him he was not to use mcafee in my shop.
>He would promptly ignore me until I caught him using it again- and again.
>
>

Sounds like the blind leading the blind either way! WWW.AVP.CH

Jinkies

In article <ozfxb.67782$>, "hootnholler"
<> wrote:

> Hey Ghost,
>
> Broke 3 of your screwdrivers?? on what, those pesky case screws? Didn't he
> know you need an air hammer for those??!?? (j/k...)

Actually, i have no idea what the hell he was doing- probably prying
something- applying way too much on something...


>
> Ghost, you seem like one of the few good guys, sorry to hear that this guy
> made your life a living hell for a while. There's two types of people in
> this world, those that dazzle you with brilliance, and those that baffle you
> with bullshit. The other part of that one is the difference between a wise
> man and a fool, a wise man keeps his mouth shut, and lets people wonder if
> he's a fool or not, the fool opens his mouth and removes all doubt. Sure
> sounds like this yahoo was part of the latter on both accounts.

oh, he was a case alright... lol

>
> To try and cheer you up, lemme leave you with this thought. Ever hear about
> the know-it-all tech that found out he couldn't cut it in the field, and
> decided to blow up a bus? He burnt his lips on the tailpipe....
>

lol

thanx

Ghost

In article <bQgxb.11281$>, "RussS"
<> wrote:

> Da-aum
>
> Geez Ghost - as a past business owner and a long time manager I surely know
> how you feel with having your trust abused. I just hope that your law
> system down there does the right thing and nails him good and proper.
> Incompetance is one thing, but to intentionally sabotage an employer you are
> leaving is freakin low .... wonder if it counts as terrorism? Throw the punk
> down in guantanamo bay and leave him, there for a year of three ... lol

It is a 3rd degree felony here in Florida.

Actually, the detective handling my case is a buddy of mine. The case is
pretty solid. I collected all the incriminating evidence before I had to
wipe the drives. This guy will wind up in a cell married to a big hairy
sweaty guy named bubba! I cannot ask for much more than that!!!

lol

Ghost

Bubba deserves better than that!

David Hough

ahhhh luv it

RussS

In article <88qxb.22025$ .net>, "JBS"
<> wrote:

> Yeah... we wouldn't want Bubba to catch any nasty viruses.



Butt, he might give one to the tech... lol

Yes, I spelled "but" with two tee's... lol

Ghost