[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

Fortunately I don't get invited to many as I'm remote but I've been to a few wild ones at my wife's former employer.

The very first one was about a month after they relocated us to Chicago. We didn't know anyone so thought it would be a good opportunity to meet some new people. They had an employee only dinner then met at a speakeasy where spouses were invited. I'm not sure who came up with it but the plan was to roast my wife's boss who was an exec and had hit a recent career milestone or something.

I showed up and was shocked at how wrecked everyone was coming from dinner. Their model is to hire right out of college and mold them into their culture. So lot of overserved young people were there.

The roast started with some teed up softball jokes then things started flowing into some pretty decent ball busting (foreshadowing pun intended). Things avalanched from there into complete awkwardness after that. Jokes about office affairs, his special needs brother who worked for the company (and was in attendence), his estranged wife, and battle with testicular cancer. It was a total bloodbath and you could see that he was getting heated.

We were like WTF. I went to a few more and turns out that's just who they are as a company culture. They all ended in a varying degree of shitshow.

Dam Son.