Taking inspo from another post… for this Halloween, anyone have any work horror stories?

I’ll start. Very early in my career, I was supporting a massive conference held by one of our clients. At 5:30am the day of the event, our keynote speaker (who was supposed to go on at 10:30am) dropped out, and we had to not only find a replacement, but update all materials & write their talking points. It was such a nightmare 4 hours and I realized I am not cut out for events.

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We had a weird thing in our office for a while. Anytime after 6 PM when most of the motion censored/ timed lights shut off automatically over the cubicles, the elevator in front of the front desk would randomly open on our floor even if no one called it. A ding, doors open to a completely darkened welcome area lit by only the welcome desk lamp, then close again. No call light was on and this wasn’t a pattern during the daytime. Happened enough times that people stopped staying late alone. This was in an old brick building that used to be a warehouse, so it also had its own spookiness to it.

Oh that is a true horror story!! I would hate that soooo much!

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