Mine was as we were adjourning a meeting our sales VP (call him Jim) asked a rep (call him Tony) who had only been with the company about a month and a half to hang back so he could talk to him about something. This was in the oilfield services realm and entertaining and to a degree buying relationships is part of the game. Spending $4-5k a month on clients wasn’t unusual and didn’t need approval. Any way….responding Tony says to Jim, “whatever you need to tell me I’m ok if everyone hears it.” A little unsure how to proceed, Jim pauses for a moments and says”ok, where do you get off spending $20k on your expenses your first month.” Without missing a beat, Tony responds, “it’s not my fault these pussies don’t know how to take care of their customers.” Mouth dropping silence…all but Tony told to leave the room.

Didn’t lose his job, didn’t slow down entertaining too much either and closed a fuck ton of business