Complaint Review: Noah Carpenter - Fort Worth Texas

Mr. Noah Carpenter, (aka nickname "Ark Boy") engaged in a prolonged campaign and extensive series of unethical, immoral (perhaps illegal) and extremely underhanded, fraudulent and deceptive tactics in order to cheat his way to the top of the corporate ladder at Basic Energy Services. Noah’s self-proclaimed goal is to “chase money” at “whatever the costs”, and this Mr. Carpenter has on more than one occasion openly professed to many co-workers that he “can never turn down more money, no matter what the reason.”

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The tl,dr; summarization version and the gist of it is that Noah Carpenter was hired on as a junior telecom support tech with official title of “Associate Network Administrator” on September 11th 2017, to work for Basic Energy Services, in downtown Fort Worth. Prior to his first real job at Basic Energy Services, he was stocking shelves and doing odd jobs here and there. He had absolutely zero IT experience and no real IT knowledge or skills, no real certs, and within two months of his first real job, he started to demand a promotion in pay, office, perks, and title and job responsibilities; and had the audacity to want the senior network engineer office/chair/ position which paid upwards of $83,000 USD/yr or more.

Noah went to school for geology but then after graduation had issues finding a job as a rock guy, so he applied to the US Marines to enlist. After he finished MEPS in Dallas and right before he was able to be shipped out to MCRD boot camp in San Diego he changed his mind and instead wanted a more lucrative paying career and hoped to be working for the federal government as an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). During this period of time while waiting on word from the FAA he was working odd jobs here and there and stocking shelves at retail stores and the whatnots. When his money ran out due to having three kids at the ripe young age of only 24, and with a stay-at-the-home wife to support, he started maxing out all his credit cards with no ability nor intent to ever repay back the unsecured debts nor the student loans that he had borrowed and taken on for college. After he started getting sued for the large sums of outstanding credit and other debts and loans, he scratched together some money to begin to retain/hire a bankruptcy attorney to help him file for bankruptcy. It was during this tumultuous period of his life that he was given a second chance and thrown essentially a lifeline by receiving the offer to work as a telecom/ junior associate network admin guy for Basic Energy Services, an energy company in the Fort Worth downtown area. Instead of being grateful and appreciative, Noah soon became greedy and full of avarice and dreamt up of schemes in which he could be quickly promoted to senior level positions while not having to do any actual real work.

Noah was only given this position of junior associate network admin/telecom because he lied to his recruiters about the true status and real nature of his Cisco CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) certification credentials and furthermore told his recruiters from the beginning that he didn’t really want anything entry-level (even though he was as fresh and as green as they come, with absolute zero experience or working knowledge of or in IT fields) and wanted to have a “head start”, essentially asking to cut-in-line, so to speak. And it was coincidentally because the previous telecom employee (Gabby) was caught and busted doing drugs and terminated from Basic Energy Services that Noah was given the position at all, for had it not been for this unfortunate occurrence there would never have been the vacancy for the junior associate network admin position in the first place!

As it turned out, less than two weeks after Noah Carpenter started his junior associate network admin position at Basic Energy Services, the senior network engineer in the IT infrastructure department was abruptly terminated with/out cause, leaving a temporary power vacuum, and activating Noah’s appetite and ambition to climb into the senior spot/chair/office. Ironically, it was because of Noah that the senior network administrator was abruptly terminated. More specifically, it was because of the confusion surrounding Noah’s FAA offer and the subsequent debate and concern (and misconducts that stemmed from all of that interactions) with regards to the possibility that Mr. Carpenter may have been let-go due to leaks of his FAA gig that the senior network administrator was immediately terminated.

By early November of 2017, less than two months after Noah Carpenter started his position of junior associate network admin at the Basic Energy Services, he was given a promotion to the enclosed window office that had belonged to the ousted senior networking engineer. The leadership in IT basically planned to have him sit next to the next/new senior network engineer they had planned to soon hire and bring on board and to give Noah the opportunity to learn the ropes from the next/new senior guy, with perhaps the intent and tentative goal of eventually giving the senior spot to Noah after some three to five years after he had proven himself to be hard working, trustworthy and capable at the company.

While initially Noah remarked that he just needed “three years” to ramp up to become the senior networking engineer, after less than two months of working at the company, and starting from a position of absolute zero in terms of experience, skills and certs (he didn’t even have an CompTIA A+ and as a matter of fact he dropped out of his A+ class midway through even though it was already paid for) Noah abruptly changed tunes and became significantly more greedy by stating that he should have already been given the senior network engineering spot and to be making more than $83k a year as opposed to his current salary of $45k. Noah voiced his discontent and became disgruntled, telling other coworkers that he felt like he was more than ready and that the environment at Basic Energy Services was a simple environment and a perfect first stepping stone for his career advancement ambitions. He had hoped to been given the senior network engineering spot in less than two months with the further goal of moving into IT management, perhaps taking the IT director spot, within a few years.

But the truth of the matter was Noah Carpenter was working less than 40 hours a week, always leaving before 4PM or right at 4PM sharp, often times spending massive amounts of time at work playing video games, or golf games on his mobile phone, and even once tried to download 300+ GB worth of online Steam PC video games using the corporate network (since his home residential internet speed was much slower) and spent most of his time at work goofing off, making gambling bets, asking coworkers for free lunches, and even once getting a free Nvidia GTX 1080Ti Extreme graphics card at no cost.  He was the sole individual and only guy in the Infrastructure department who refused to take his work laptop home, siting he doesn’t get paid enough to be on-call or to be essentially working from home, often stating he “doesn’t do pro bono”. Even though he was provided with free training and an entire free set of CCNP training kits, he refused to use any of the CCNP training provided to him at zero cost, even stating that he hated reading books and that he didn’t feel like having to read any of the Cisco press kit books such as the TSHOOT, SWITCH or ROUTE books for the CCNP. He told one of his coworkers that he would love to get paid $100,000 USD a year to do nothing but stay at home and play PC video games all day long, and that he hated rich people, he felt rich people were slobs and that there should be a communistic “robin hood” system in place to redistribute the wealth from the rich and to funnel that money into people such as himself so that he can stop working and just get free money to stay at home and to play video games forever.