Hopping on the trend: What’s the most unhinged thing you’ve witnessed at work? Not a manager storming out or someone rage-quitting...I mean something truly insane.

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1. Scheduling sales team evening events at the local Irish pub/local drinking hole for alcoholic management team and having the pub drop a case of Glenlivet on the tab, which was smuggled out of the back door and into the office of the VP Sales. Tab was put on my credit card and approved by my boss so CEO wouldn’t see the details.
2. My entire company being banned from an upscale hotel after a sales meeting because of horrific drunkenness at the hotel bar that resulted in $1,000 of damage to an antique armoire, an entire room’s carpet being replaced because because someone threw up all over it, three members of our team needing hospitalization with broken bones due to drunken chicanery, and bottles of high end booze being removed from behind the hotel bar and “snuck” out to be drunk on the terrace.
3. CEO climbing onto and crawling down a boardroom table to scream in the face of the COO about something to other.

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lol it’s always the sales events that go crazy. My companies sales team got BANNED FROM AN AIRLINE for getting too drunk and vaping on the plane 🤦

Working at an adult beverage brand and drivers were allowed an adult beverage. You would assume AFTER their shift, but that was not always the case. I got out of there asap and didn’t look back.

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I once worked for a guy who would do yoga in his office at lunch. Which wouldn’t be bad, but he wouldn’t want his suit to get wrinkled so he would strip down to his underwear or nude apparently. Which we found out when the assistant walked in on him because he didn’t lock his door.

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Years ago, a staff member came to me about being harassed by our manager. Since I was her senior, I went to HR on her behalf. HR was more worried about damage control. That was my first lesson learning HR protects the company first.

Meh - you learnt that that company’s HR sucked.

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