you ever see one of your co-workers naked unexpectedly?
I'm still pretty traumatized by this story but I'm going to try some Shertherapy posting and see if I can overcome.
I worked in a fairly large city with numerous gyms within walking distance of my job. Things had not been going well as we were bought by a larger company and anyone that has gone through that knows the larger company fish eat all the smaller company fish and eventually you end up unemployed. Mind you this is not based on merit, just familiarity and taking the safe way when deciding which of the 2 employees gets the 1 spot left, the one you know and have worked with for a decade or the one who might be better but you've never met.
Anyway, I've met the new CEO, watched him bumblefuck his way through a project I was working on while completely ignoring my advice as I had about a year's worth of hands on experience and tried to pass that to him only to get a "We've got consultants for that" reply. And I do mean that was the complete reply.
So knowing the writing was on the wall, I figured I'd take some longer lunches, stroll about and maybe get some laps swimming if I could find a place with a pool that would let me go month to month on the membership.
Guy is showing me the gym, "pool is this way you have to go through the men's locker room and past the showers. All members are asked to shower before getting in the pool"
Yup you guessed it, walking out of the shower at that very moment, no towel in sight, is the new CEO who smiles and says hello.
The consultants cost us 3x's what it would have cost to do on our own, displaced an entire section of the company unnecessarily moving them out and back into their offices, I quit shortly thereafter.
but the mental image of that naked, bird chested, skinny pimply smiling man saying hello seeming unaware of my hared, in my minds eye I've somehow corrupted the memory to include the stupid elmer's fudd winter cap he used to wear and everyone laughed at behind his back being on his head though in reality it probably wasn't, that image still haunts me