A Runaway Star

I always enjoy tales of workplace unhappiness. This is an excellent example. This man cracked his tooth on a workplace-supplied lolly/sweet/candy (depending on where you're from), resulting in them being banned from meetings and training sessions, and he's now putting in a claim for psychological trauma after his colleagues bullied him about it. "You f---ed it up for everyone at CDSCC," one co-worker is alleged to have told him. They take their lollies seriously, obviously. Mind you, he's since been fired for taking a work car to get McDonald's for lunch, so there might be more going on than meets the eye.

There was a cracking tale a few years ago of a woman who had to stay in a hotel on a work trip. While there, she invited an acquaintance back to her room for the night, where they engaged in behaviour that led to the light fitting above the bed falling on her head. Five years later, she was eligible for worker's compensation. And that led to a serious discussion in my workplace about whether we had to add that to our risk register as a potential hazard for employees travelling for business purposes. (Answer: Sort of, although it was worded to cover being injured in any way while on the road.)