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Being over 50.

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A mid-level guy had a coke-fuelled rendezvous with two hookers in one of the executive offices after hours. He passed out and they found the girls stuck in the stairwell with a bunch of company laptops.

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☝️Winner!

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Saying their mom died but actually doing magic on a cruise ship

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It was a PM, east coast

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Stealing milk every night from the agency fridge. Gallons and gallons of milk.

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I actually feel the milk thing happened at my agency too.

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The person I replaced was fired for looking at ...adult content on her work computer. During the work day, in a shared office.

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I believe I heard that a coworker was watching porn all day at masturbating at their desk. But somehow did not get fired for that.

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My art director partner was fired for being the oldest member of the department. No one in management was ever held accountable for it.

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If that’s true, (being the eldest is not cause), this guy musta made out big time in a settlement. Also, wondering how this made the 2nd eldest feel as they graduated to being the eldest….

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Kid I worked with hooked up with all the office girls and was secretly taping them and had a stash of videos for years. Went to work one day and cops/news cameras were outside like a damn press conference looking for comments from people. Were instructed in a quick town hall to defer all comments to head of Legal. We had no idea until we looked it up in the news. Needless to say he was 🔥d.

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more deets, please

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Crapping on a desk

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Wait I think I know where this is at not unless this happened in a different agency too LOLOLOLOL

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I once got a new ECD at an in house agency. On his first day, there was a meet-and-greet meeting held purely for him to be introduced to the creative staff. This man spent the entire time in a corner on a laptop working furiously on something (it was day 1, so it wasn’t like he was on a pitch deadline yet), barely grunting and sometimes flat out not responding when his brand new staff tried to say hello to him. Super strange.

The meeting ended and we NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN.

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Probably had anxiety so tried to look bust to not have to engage

at the old PR firm i worked at, someone got fired then waited in the attached parking garage with a baseball for his boss to leave and beat the s*** out of him…the vp on my account was telling everyone the week after

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Catch me outside

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An employee stopping into the office to take a poop on the way home from a bar. Only to find out it was diarrhea. Pooped all over the floor. Tried to clean it up with shower towels. Ended up throwing them and her pants in the garbage. All of this caught on security cameras. Best part, she was later voted employee of the yr by sr management. This biz is crazy.

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This happened to me but I cleaned it up and no one found out

Spitting beer in the ECD’s face

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Yup, that’ll do it. 😬

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Someone got fired for living in the office. They were sleeping in a closet. I think they had lost their apartment or something. Don’t really know the full story.

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Lots of people have done this. Surf every couch in the office.

Jeez.. I’ve got nothing as crazy as the other commenters.

I’ve seen a subordinate get into a yelling match with their direct supervisor (who quite frankly deserved to be called out for his BS). I saw him packing his desk in a box the next day.

I know there are more productive ways to stand up for ourselves, but I hope that brave junior employee is doing better now.

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We had a conference call with our vendor, and my coworker in Seattle forgot that he wasn't on mute. It would've been fine, except that he answered a phone call from one of his friends. Everyone in the meeting heard the following:

"Hey man! Yeah, I'm just feeling like shit today. Yeah, we went up to Vancouver this past weekend, and we did a shit ton of shrooms..."

Not only was this heard by everyone, but it was also transcribed by MS Teams, so there was no getting this guy off the hook. He was fired the next day. The team was already stretched thin, and I wasn't sure whether to be more mad at my coworker for being stupid, or at the management for not caring about the team's bandwidth first.

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“Shrooms? Haha, no, I said ‘zooms’ yeah, I was back to back on conference calls all weekend. These stupid transcriptions are whacked. Haha, AI will never take out jobs, right guys? Right…?”

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A CCO putting on a company wide chat he was « fuc*ing bored » during a day of inclusion. The whole company was on the chat. He wasn’t fired right away as they tried to do some damage control for a hot second. But was ultimately let go

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LOL i remember this story making it on ad age and campaign

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Turning 45

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A community manager promised a car to a follower of a brand's account if they could get enough likes and shares on a post.

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Did it work tho

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Taking a shit all over a conference room the night prior

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Yes this was Mullen 1003

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Woman on week three got SUPER drunk at the Christmas party, danced on the bar kicking glassware, drinks, etc., fell off the bar and onto a table before throwing up all over said table. Never saw her again. She was a cautionary tale for years, “Don’t pull a NAME!”

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It was a Havas agency.

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