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Post by PiercedOff on Nov 13, 2023 23:04:18 GMT
What's your juiciest workplace drama, past or present?
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Post by lishd on Nov 14, 2023 4:29:11 GMT
Oh boy, I have one.
My second-worst boss, Bill, had a wife, Zoe, and both of them worked at my company at the time. He was a newly-obese misogynist (who I'd recently been promoted away from) and she was one of those Cruel Goth Queen stereotypes. We found out Zoe was cheating on Bill at work, with a rich guy from Dubai named Obi. She met him online somewhere and he kept flying in every month to see her. She told Obi she was single and living in a Muslim community house with all women and her daughter. None of these things were true, she lived with Bill and her kid and they were clear atheists. Obi kept buying Zoe dinners and diamonds, fancy gifts like high-end tablets and cameras, and courting her like a prince. He even took her to Paris one weekend. Occasionally we would see her head out to lunch with some guy no one knew, but that's not how we found out what was going on... Zoe misfired an email one day, and it went to the company's fun mailing list instead of the one person she meant to send it to. She recalled it immediately, but I had my email set to move things out of my inbox upon delivery, so no one could recall any emails from me. (Not the only time that trick came in handy.) I was stunned by the content, it was just all full of lies and abuse of someone who seemed to be a pretty good guy. I got Obi's email address from it and reached out to him to let him know he was being lied to and taken advantage of. We got to talking. He was super sweet and had genuinely believed he was courting his wife-to-be. He was excited to adopt Zoe's daughter when they were married! 😠Zoe had even written letters to Obi *as* her 15 year old daughter, thanking him for expensive presents and saying she looked forward to calling him Dad. 💀 I still feel bad for him, but I'm glad I was able to stop Zoe in her tracks. The best part is I gave him the email addresses of all the company execs, as well as Zoe's boss and basically everyone in her department (none of which was private), and invited him to do whatever he wanted with that information. He sent a super amazing email, extremely emotionally mature and a scathing condemnation of Zoe's character. With pictures to prove it. And literal receipts. That email came through and Zoe split the building maybe ten minutes later, and didn't come back for three days. We were all surprised she came back at all. She never mentioned it and didn't stay at the company much longer after that, and Bill was laid off in the next merger. I don't know if Zoe stayed with Bill, but he did eventually apologize to me for treating me so poorly when he was my boss, so maybe the whole situation affected him in an overall positive way. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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