So, I started a business for myself doing electronic repairs. It isn't bad but, since it's just starting out, I don't have a lot of clientele so, I needed a steady paycheck. A recruiter reached out to me about a job working for the IT service desk at my local power company. Pay sounded amazing so I followed up. During the interview, I was honest about the fact that I had my own business that I was running and asked if there would be any issues. The boss over the contract company, the in-house IT and the head of the full IT department all agreed that there would be no issues with me also running my business while working there. Nothing else was said about it. Three days into working for them, I receive a phone call during my lunch break in the break room. There is nobody else in the break room and I give a general quote for a repair on an iPad. I never mentioned where I was located, whom I worked for or did anything of the sort. Call lasted 3 minutes. After I finished my lunch, I went back to my desk to continue my shift. An hour later, the boss over the contracting company comes to collect me and takes me to his office to inform me that I need to hand over my badge and be walked out. It was as he was walking me out that I learned a bit more about the situation and it turns out, someone in the IT department had suggested another contracting company who would've paid him a commission for getting them in with the power company. They didn't win the bid so this person was now sabotaging the contracting company by deleting programs from the servers, ratting out any good employees, etc. They said it was because I was 'soliciting' on the premises which I can respect but, a verbal warning would've sufficed.
Tl;dr – Office politics and a lack of communication ripped a $16/hr cushy gig out from under me in less than 3 days.