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When I worked retail at a big box store in college, the operations manager kept a spreadsheet tally of the death, disease and mishap that afflicted store employees.

After Christmas at the annual party he announced the total death toll (it was like 80 people and 50 pets for a staff of 120), and presented the person with the most fake death a funeral basket of flowers and summer sausage.



The payoff here (looking like a giant asshole) doesn't seem worth the risk (publically humiliating someone who had the worst year of their life and lost a ton of family and friends)


It was a joke. Nothing was injured other than the brain cells killed by binge drinking.

The guy was notorious, the dude didn’t realize that managers spoke to each other. His poor grandmother “died” about 8 times, just in one year.




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