I'm just curious to see what crazy stories or legends pop up at various companies, having worked at a few different types of businesses over the years, I've got some crazy ones. Keep in mind, I have no idea if these are true, just heard about them from someone who heard about it, and so on:
1) When I worked at Radioshack, supposedly there was a guy who got stabbed in the hand with a pen by a pissed off customer. It was some older gentleman who wanted to write a check, and the phone rang so the employee turned to answer it, and the gentleman thought he was being "abused" or something similar, so stabbed his pen into the back of the hand of the employee (he was resting it on the counter). This supposedly happened at the store I worked at, to someone that I never ended up meeting because he had since moved on. Nobody there had ever met him, it was just something they had heard from a previous employee, and so on.
2) At my current employer (which will remain nameless), there was supposedly a customer who had some sort of aircard for their laptop, and while in Italy (for unknown reasons), was waiting in line at a theater to see Lord of the Rings 3, and decided he would download over his aircard (a cellular device) the first two movies. He apparantly had pay-per-use service, not unlimited, so they charge 1 cent per kilobyte of download/upload usage, plus he was roaming internationally. The bill was something like $150k, that is $150,000...of which he paid half. Somehow I think this one is a bit inflated, but once again, I heard it from someone who swears he heard it from someone who saw the actual bill.
Any other absolutely unbelievable (and probably untrue) stories?
1) When I worked at Radioshack, supposedly there was a guy who got stabbed in the hand with a pen by a pissed off customer. It was some older gentleman who wanted to write a check, and the phone rang so the employee turned to answer it, and the gentleman thought he was being "abused" or something similar, so stabbed his pen into the back of the hand of the employee (he was resting it on the counter). This supposedly happened at the store I worked at, to someone that I never ended up meeting because he had since moved on. Nobody there had ever met him, it was just something they had heard from a previous employee, and so on.
2) At my current employer (which will remain nameless), there was supposedly a customer who had some sort of aircard for their laptop, and while in Italy (for unknown reasons), was waiting in line at a theater to see Lord of the Rings 3, and decided he would download over his aircard (a cellular device) the first two movies. He apparantly had pay-per-use service, not unlimited, so they charge 1 cent per kilobyte of download/upload usage, plus he was roaming internationally. The bill was something like $150k, that is $150,000...of which he paid half. Somehow I think this one is a bit inflated, but once again, I heard it from someone who swears he heard it from someone who saw the actual bill.
Any other absolutely unbelievable (and probably untrue) stories?