Day three, he informed me that he had to work from home 100% of the time - five days a week, due to a medical issue. I smelled bullshit, but when someone invokes a medical issue, you play it by the books. I hooked him up with our people in HR who would work with his doctors, verify his issue, and determine what sort of accommodation we should give. I will have you note that my company has a very liberal work from home policy (advertising, software, technology. very easy to wfh if need be) but we do not allow 100% remote.

So anyway, he starts flipping his shit because of course there is no diagnosis or doctor, he was just a lazy piece of shit who was out from the start to abuse the system. i was never once angry with him, i never raised my voice, and i always did my best to understand what was going on. but soon enough he was saying stuff about me to HR (i had spoken like ... four times to him in person). i was worried they were going to start believing him, or at least limiting liability and blaming me ... when he flipped his shit on them. HR lady was like, "well ok then."

so we recorded it as job abandonment. he tried to get a lawyer and sent some bullshit to our legal team, but eventually he just mailed us his laptop.

then he applied for a job at the former company i worked for ... where i know like 300 people ...