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What is something crazy that happened at work?
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this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
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Boss forced everyone to come into work because she was tired of using tech. Wanted people to come in and eat ice cream while brainstorming with post it notes. Said anyone not there is fired.
Well she didn't put any effort into planning it, and it was very inefficient so everyone ended up using their computers like they had been doing at home. Just with more distractions and needing to commute. Not much work got done so everyone needed to work from home that night after hours to meet deadlines.
Well it turns out the guy passing out icecream was also passing out covid. Every single person on the team got sick. None of the projects were completed by the deadlines and the entire department was shut down. Everyone lost their jobs.
The boss herself is still unemployed over a year later because she is now disabled with long covid. Has a heart problem from it where she can pass out at random times. Can no longer taste ice cream.
I had a similar experience pre-COVID with a middle manager boss I hated.
I was going to be flying in to NY to participate on an advisory group for a very large client, and wanted to fly in early to have dinner with the editor of a trade publication for which social meetups nearly always led to being requested to do a piece, often a cover story.
Well, my middle manager boss wanted to use us as a free case study group for her friend's team building services, and had me instead fly in late so I could be there for the stupid thing.
The real kicker was she wanted everyone on the team in, including the colleague who was home with a 102° fever. I was not happy at all that someone actively sick was going to be in the office, and even went to HR but was effectively told STFU.
So I spent the day "looking around the room with a magnifying glass to see if you notice anything different" instead of dinner with the editor in chief of our industry's trade magazine while actively staying as far as fucking possible from my sick colleague and hating my boss with every ounce of my being.
It was nuts how she used to use company resources for her own gain, and my dislike for her eventually got to the point I would get physically ill the limited times she was actually in the offices.
Had it been COVID days, I can't even imagine how she'd have endangered the whole team.