Said go fuck yourself to CEO at a meeting with contractors, then said the same to the boss of the contractors, stormed out of the room, returned with a glass of cognac in five minutes and everyone pretended that nothing happened. It was so epic and hilarious and the funniest thing is both of the guys actually listened and ~~fucked themselves~~ did the right thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What an absolute legend! What was the rooms reaction at the time?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well contractor's team was confused, our team was trying not to laugh to hard, and ceo was like "well, moving on ...". It was a startup that gotten too big fast, so people that were there from the start were friends before (and some of the smartest if shitty people that I've met), so things like that were not normal but tolerated.

After meeting ended everyone was invited for a drink, so people had somethingn to say about it, it was to date one of the few meetings I've ever enjoyed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Brilliant love this story

[–] Mugmoor 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not my story, but my mother's. We're Canadian, which is relevant to the story.

A few months ago she was at a large conference in the US for a very large multinational corp. During one of the talks being given, they brought out another Canadian speaker who addressed the fact that there were other Canadians in the crowd.

Behind her, she hears some guy shout "Our 51st State!"

She turns around to him, and very loud tells him "Oh fuck off, I'd rather be dead." He had quite a horrified look on his face.

Turns out he's one of the top Execs at the company. Fast forward to about a week ago, and guess who is visiting the Canadian offices? He received a very cold reception.