Every now and then I'll get a work call while I'm in the bathroom. So, there I am, on the toilet, while discussing the finer points of tax diversification in retirement with a new prospect who I've been trying to reach for weeks and chose that exact moment to get back to me. As I'm comparing and contrasting Roth IRAs and cash value life insurance I'm wiping, washing, stealth muting in order to flush, and walking out to where an actual paper and pen exist to take notes. All while the client has no clue. This has happened more than once. Then there was the time(s) a client just needed to give me some paperwork or I needed to give them some. So we pull up in a parking lot, driver's sides adjacent, and pass paperwork across the open windows. Just a couple of dudes passing unmarked packages to each other in a parking lot. Focus: Weird work stories. Times the client/customer had no idea what was going on behind the scenes. Surreal moments you would never have thought you'd be in at work.
I work at home and I've lost count on the number of times I've had work meetings while in bed after taking a nap, in a towel, or playing video games. Bump.
There were three of us pregnant in the office at the same time two years ago. My boss came out of his office as the third girl was announcing her pregnancy and, staring daggers at me, he said "don't any of you people believe in birth control?" and walked back into his office.
A surreal moment I never thought I'd have at work was when the FBI investigated a death threat against me while working at PP. (It actually happened four times - twice against me, personally, and then twice for our team as a whole.)
My buddy does this with me. I just hang up on him. He'll call me back, "dude, why did you hang up?" Uh, because I don't want to talk to you while you're taking a shit. "How did you know?" Uh, because instead of carpet and sheetrock, your voice was clearly bouncing off tile. Maybe your clients don't care.
Again, not particularly shocking or weird, but I have nowhere else to file this. New legislation means that we have to revise all our MSDS by next year. None of this has to be done by me, so I get to sit back and watch this clusterfuck unfold. In the last 2 weeks my boss has sent out five emails to the company: 1. "We anticipate a Go-Live of July 2017" (which is the dropdead date set by the legislation) 2. "Great news! We have made adjustments and anticipate a revised Go-Live of Jan 2017! Great job team!" 3. "Fabulous news! We have made even more adjustments and anticipate a re-revised Go-Live of July 2016!" 4. "Due to challenges, we will not meet the July 2016 Go-Live. We anticipate a re-re-revised Go-Live of Jan 2017." 5. "After taking additional information into consideration, our original July 2017 is the new set Go-Live."