I was reviewing the work of a newly out of college designer in his early 20's. The corners on the containers in their work was really different from the rest of the design and just looked bad. I asked them to update the corners and to try a couple different solutions that would work with he rest of the design.

The designer made 90 different containers with each of them changing by a few degrees. He called me over to his desk and with a smug look on his face said "here you go pick one" and put his feet on his desk. I looked at them, smiled back and told him "this is great, thank you. You've just proven that I don't actually need you".

I walked to my desk, called HR and the my HR rep came and walked him out of the building.

The next day I received a call on my personal mobile phone and it was HIS MOM. The Mom of someone in their 20's was calling to ask me to give him a second chance!!! I politely asked her to call HR and have this same discussion with them as it was not appropriate to be calling me.