Any good stories of co-workers who lost their shit at work?

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I've noticed a few posts here and there about people questioning themselves on their career paths and also being stressed. They realize that money is not the answer for them.

I was wondering if anyone has seen any of these people "snap" on the job and, if so, how did it go down?

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First day I was hired at a former company HR was taking me around and introducing me to the different people. When they got to the asset management "pit" as they called it, one of the guys was in the middle of rage quitting, shouting F*** this place, F*** the founder, F*** everything. I was... taken aback, but he eventually saw me, smiled and said "nice to meet you, my name is Chad (his name wasn't chad)." He then proceeded to leave and I never saw him again. 

 

This dude I know just walked out one day with a hard drive full of proprietary shit and never came back. When lawyers and the CFO contacted him, he traded it for a signed non-disparagement agreement

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Well, they were outsourcing his job to the "India team" and having him train 8 different Pajeets to do his one fucking job and they'd be working 24/7... all while reassuring him he'd always have a job there. Then, they started putting him on endless PIPs for nonsense despite having 99-100% on all performance reviews ever. So they could fire him for cause. Like they'd invent mistakes nobody would ever give a fuck about and put him on PIPs for it then renew them. Denied him a raise because you can't get a raise while on a PIP. His property management business he ran largely from the office was growing and he could afford to leave, so he did. And they were all shits, so he didn't care to be nice about it.

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Kid is either a full of himself autist with no career or launched his own VC firm by 25 no in between 

 

Hahahaha yes. Someone in my department (thankfully not someone I managed) sent out a 5 paragraph exit email to all 2K+ employees. It said the F word at least 15 times and had terrible grammar. There was some dispute over her maternal leave and her PTO/time off when she came back from it. Escalated quickly after she was told that she can consider quitting or she will be terminated. Also heard she pissed off senior management and that's what started a whole "drama" that exited in that portion of the department.

I believe our company eventually had to contact Microsoft to get the email removed from the "all employees" mailbox. I saved it and read it a few times. I was always surprised that her former manager at our company didn't reach out to her current employer with this email to show how unprofessional she was (I honestly would have done it - it was really that bad, it slightly tarnished the manager's reputation - who I actually thought was doing a great job - his team's productivity improved drastically under him).

 

I worked with this guy in management consulting in defense contracting and he was a retired Army Lt. Col - a real character. 

Well, it came time to renew our bid for a contract and there was this rumor that we were going to lose the bid and he flipped his shit, got hammered and then went to the client's office at night and started wrecking the place and wrote F*** you on a bunch of papers and taped the notes on computer screens and kicked over the trash cans and stuff.

Well it turns out we actually won the contract and the client thought it was “hilarious” that Dave flipped out (he was the project manager). Only Dave gets away with stuff like that - he was notorious. A real character.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

A friend told me he saw a coworker snap on another coworker over poltical stuff (learn to park your baggage at the door boys & girls). They then sent an email to the COO in response calling them out, but they were the ones that got the pink slip. The irony is later they both tried to get each other hired in different firms a decade later.

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Yeah, they actually did try to help each other. And they weren't low tier firms. We're talking big 4 and places like Bain.

They both grew up and became professionals who could handle it.. But I totally get where you're coming frrom.

Professiolanism over the snap I mentioned. thankfully.

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I don't know... Yeah. Almost definitely yes.

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