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A coworker gave me some THC laced stuff at work without warning me. So I'm sitting at my desk, when all of a sudden I start panicking. I feel weird. Is my heart stopping? I can't move my arms. I start yelling. Other coworkers come to my aid. I tell them I can't move my arms, while waving them wildly. They tell me I need to go to the hospital. The coworkers who dosed me said he'd take me, and they had to wheel me out to his truck in my desk chair because I said my legs didn't work either.
In the car, he told me I can't say anything about what he gave me, or we'd both be in huge trouble. So, I freak out more. We get to the ER, and I just don't say anything. He's talking for me. In the room, they give me some Valium and I calm down. The nurse thinks we are a couple. He's a 40 year old dude, I was a 23 year old dude. Too freaked out still to correct her.
Next day, go back to the office like nothing happened.
You should have probably gone to HR about that. Without an explanation, the behaviour reflects poorly on you for something your coworker did which was not only illegal, but extremely immoral. You do not give someone drugs without their knowledge or consent! Wtf! You know he only took you to the hospital to protect himself. I would not feel safe working in the same space as him.
Yeah, of course. I'm fully aware of all of that. That was over a dozen years ago, and that company didn't even have an HR department. At least not in the States.
I actually stayed friends with that guy for years. Even after we both left that place. I just saw him a few months ago at my new company's tech open house, it's a surprisingly small industry.
He probably would have been fired for that, but you really had to try to be fired from that place. Some examples I can think of are:
Jesus H Christ. These are oddly specific and terrifying are these actual reasons people at your company got fired for?
They sure are! And despite all that, I loved that place until they were bought by a venture capital firm (ironically named DBAG). That's when it went downhill.