Who is that stupid

I have a question for you.

Let’s say that you just started a new job. You don’t know anyone there and are not quite sure what is acceptable to do and what is not. Would you then decide on your own that it would be ok to switch out the computer that is sitting on your desk for one that is sitting at someone else’s desk just because you like it better? And better yet, would you do that with out asking someone if it was ok?

That is what someone did here at work yesterday. She decided that it would be ok since she felt that she should have the best possible computer that she could have. But since she didn't tell anyone that she did this, when the person whose computer was switched came in and it wasn’t hooked up right, he told me it didn’t work.

Well after I looked at the machine and noticed that the wrong computer was at his desk and the label that was on his computer was now on the other machine I had to assume that someone "walked off" with his computer and tried to cover it up. Well I then had to inform my boss by phone what was going on since he had not made it into the office and he came to the same conclusion.

Needless to say that when we found out what had happened we were planning on just placing the computer back where it needed to be and have a talk with the new employee on why she can't do that.

But then the new employee walked in while me and my boss (head of IT) were switching the computers back and coped and attitude with us about we shouldn't touch her computer. When confronted with what she did, she of course said that she didn’t do it and that the computer was there when she started. Little did she know that we had just done an inventory of all the computers and re imaged them as well this past weekend.

Then she changed her story saying the other computer didn't work and that is why she switched the computer with the one that was at an empty desk. After we told her that we know that the computer works and that the other computer was not at an empty desk, she decided to claim that she didn’t know that she wasn't allowed to move computers.

To make a long story shorter.....She only lasted 2 days at a new job. The crazy part is that if she had just told the truth and not made up a story she would have just been talked to about it.

I guess that the moral of the story is tell the truth and don't try and cover up a mistake.