What's the most bizarre exiting (quitting a job/agency) story you've heard or experienced? 🤔

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Hahahah, wait, this guy got the whole office's communications billed to himself? That's amazing

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I have never seen anything like it before or since. The office services guy didn't even know who to call to pay the bill.

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Over a decade ago. Senior exec was using his credit card to get AmEx points on office services including company phones, internet service in two offices, etc. He expensed them to the company and got reimbursed. Announced he was going to a competitor. The same day, cell phones and internet were cut off.

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I know about a guy who missed his flight to the client in CHICAGO (so, like there's a flight every half hour). Dude decided fuck it and went home. Didn't tell client he missed the flight. Canned at home.

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Had a coworker that got fired while he was on vacation in another country. The boss called him and told him not to come back. Granted that boss got fired a few months later...

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It's totally legal to fire someone while they are on vacay, I've seen it happen twice during layoffs. Good ole at will employment...

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At Y&R years ago there was a guy I hear who famously wrote his resignation letter to Alex Kroll the then President and began with "Dear Uncle Alex" - and it just got better from there on. I never got a look but I heard it was awesome bridge burning stuff

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^@DP Wait, how was that not illegal??

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