30. These Customers Got More Than What They Expected
The owner of my company was managing systems engineers at a large aerospace engineering firm. While showing a bunch of customers around their facilities early one morning, one of his engineers heard him coming and jumped out at him from between a couple of racks completely in the buff. They had been working flat out right up until delivery, to the point where the guy was working until midnight and getting in at 6 AM for the past week.
They were friends who’d been with the company for about 15 years together up to that point and used to prank each other in the office all the time. The guy just hadn’t slept much and had lost track of time. He was fired immediately. I often think about how he must have felt in those few moments before jumping out.