Top 3 Wildest things that I've ever seen in an office:
3. I worked at a super small-scale stock brokerage "firm," which was owned an operated by this really old man. His kids worked for him and did most of the work, but he "oversaw" everything, so to speak. He wasn't great with computers, and one day, he got super frustrated, picked up a monitor, yelled, "WHAT IS THIS SHIT?!" and then threw it on the ground before raising his fists like the Hulk. It took everything I had not to crack up.
2. When my then-new boss as a multi-million dollar creative agency, a woman who made like $400K a year with a lakehouse and an LL Bean catalogue family, lit a joint in the main conference room. Keep in mind this was in Chicago, so recreational weed is not legal, and this was before the medical program started up. I looked around the room, trying to read the situation, but everybody seemed pretty chill about it. I later found out that she did this on the reg, but she was literally the highest-ranking woman in the Chicago office, so who was going to tell her anything? Also, it's not like she was twirling around a gun, so nobody cared.
1. The craziest didn't actually happen in the office. I received a call from a data entry contractor who told me she'd be late to work because her ex-fiance was in the hospital and she was his emergency contact. K, no big deal. Then she called back like two hours later, and told me, "I'm not going to be able to come into work at all today. I'm still talking to the police. There was an incident last night... it was kinda my fault... there was a machete involved." It was the most Florida conversation I've had to this day. Anyway, after telling the studio head this, he told me I had to call her right back and fire her. That was very awkward, as I was actually on vacation at the time, and day-drunk. Hoo boy.
