We just had two new hires with very good experience and backgrounds. One started a little over a month ago and one started two weeks ago. Both talented guys.
Anyway, the guy who started two weeks ago decides Wednesday afternoon that he doesn't want to work there and quits. WTF??? Apparently he thought he could bully the team around and when my manager wasn't having it, he quit. Apparently from what we gathered, he thought that we would instantly drop what we're doing, adopt his new style of doing things on the first day... when he didn't get his way, he quit. Ok? Real team player there.
The other guy, the one who started a little over a month ago, got fired this afternoon. Apparently he wasn't getting things done, taking a REALLY long time on simple tasks. Then, to make matters worse, he was apparently saying the wrong things to a lot of people and complaining about a lot of various things which didn't make sense, such as that the women in the office were looking at him funny. Uh, what?
Anyway, this leads me to ask, is there something in the water? Two people who my company needed ... in the same week. Ugh.

Wishing everyone well. I enjoyed posting here for a while, but as I matured I realized this forum isn't for me. We all evolve. Thanks for the memories everyone.