Episode 5 of I Used To Work There is complete chaos from start to finish. This week’s Day Shift brings the lighter workplace insanity, including a bachelor party thrown inside an office building, a haircut on company time, and the moment rain literally started pouring into Kelly’s office mid-interview.

Then Night Shift takes things into much wilder territory with a Russian train ride involving KGB security and army jeeps, an exploding tablet during a corporate meeting, a heartfelt Paul McCartney security story, and a business trip that somehow escalates into VIP parties, private jets, and a flight to Switzerland that sounds straight out of The Wolf of Wall Street. From hilarious office disasters to surreal international moments that genuinely sound made up, Episode 5 might be the wildest collection of work stories yet.

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Maybe a week later, I was out in the field and I get a call on the radio.

They're like, yeah, Daryl.

Yeah.

You got to come to the boardroom.

There's some people here to see you, right?

And I'm like, what, to see me?

Like, who else here to see me, right?

So as I'm driving up to the office, the complex that we're in, there's a bunch of army jeeps in the thing there.

Like, there's a jeep and a couple of trucks, right?

A couple guys down there with guns.

This all about, right?

So we get in and we sit down and I. I brought an interpreter because I, you know, she'd help me see what's going on.

But I. I pretty much knew because once I walked in, the guy's.

There's a general there, and he's got like five stars on his hat and five stars on each arm and he's got medals from one shoulder to the other.

And he's talking and he's like, blah, blah, blah, blah, Daryl, blah, blah, blah.

Darryl, Daryl, blah, blah.

I'm like that.

This doesn't sound good.

Welcome back everyone to I used to work there.

We have seven incredible stories for you and I can't wait to get into it.

But before we do, I want to make a quick story Call if you have a story that happened to you at work.

It's wild, it's crazy, it's scary, it's intense, it's wrong.

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Please let me know.

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So thank you for your early support and let's get into our very first story.

Our first story comes from my home city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

It is my pleasure to welcome Mike to the show.

Now, Mike has an absolutely hilarious story for us.

Mike, tell us what happened back in.

The days when I used to be in suit and tie and work in downtown Edmonton and every we Started this.

This thing at lunchtime where we played a very cutthroat game of hearts.

Like, it was.

It was brutal, right?

Brutal, but fun.

And our office manager, she was a hard ass about it.

Everyone had to be there at noon, lunch in hand, ready to go, cards, you know, and she took a lot of joy over hearts at lunch.

Okay.

And it was an office, about 12 people.

So the one individual that the haircutting company time was around, he was a bit of a. Nate was a bit of a.

Always getting in trouble.

I'll put it that way.

Always.

Okay.

So the office manager, she kind of had it out for him in a lot of cases, right?

Yeah.

So anyways, so he came one day.

He comes to the hearts game late, all right.

And about 15, 20 minutes.

And immediately she looks up and she goes, did you get a haircut?

And he goes, yeah, I did.

You want a haircut on company time?

And I'm serious.

There's.

There's like six of us on the table.

We're like, what's gonna happen?

Anyways, he responded.

His response was absolutely epic.

And I remember to this day, I can literally close my eyes and see it.

He goes, well, it grew on company time.

So.

Here's the thing.

I was crying.

I was laughing so hard.

I was on the ground.

I was on the floor.

And I thought it was brilliant.

Brilliant answer.

Anyways, the office manager looks at me, and literally about a day later, she calls me in the office and she's like, mike, you know, that wasn't really an appropriate response.

Like, I'm sorry, but that was a brilliant answer.

Sorry.

Not sorry, Quinn.

What?

Yeah.

Yep.

Yeah.

So I. I was probably number two on the shit list when it came to the people in the office.

How long.

How long did hearts continue to play out?

Well, we did that forever.

Honestly, that.

That never changed.

My last day.

So this is the best part, too.

The last day that I was at this company, I got.

So to win was a big deal, right?

Yeah.

Especially how you win that.

That made a big difference.

So if you got 100 exactly, you won.

Right.

Or the lowest score, you win.

Right.

So the last day that I.

That I was at this company, I won.

Oh, wow.

And the office manager was like, no.

I'm like, adios.

Yeah.

Peace.

Yeah.

That's amazing.

You know what?

One of the funnest places I ever worked at, we used to do board games once a month.

And it was just such a.

Like, not every day, not every weekend, but we take a Friday once a month, and we would have A board game day at the office and to this day like some of the best work experiences and team bonding I can even imagine.

Yeah, no, that's amazing.

Haircut on company time.

Well, it grew at work.

That's incredible.

Thanks, Mike.

I absolutely love funny stories like this.

And you may notice this show is broken up into two segments, Day shift and night shift.

So all of our funnier, happier, more light hearted stories start off at the beginning and as we get closer to the end of the show, we switch into night shift which is where all the stranger, crazy, dark or otherwise stories lie.

For our next day shift story, it is my pleasure to welcome myself to the show.

Yes, I have and I used to work there story for you guys that happened just last week.

So let me tell you about reigning in the office.

I was in my office last week having a long call with one of my former coaching students.

For those of you who may or may not know, I'm Kelly Kennedy.

I host another show called the Business development Podcast which I have done for years.

We are quite a large Canadian business show.

So I used to work there for me is like my more funny, crazy, wild show that I love to do.

That's all entertainment.

And on my work side, my business development world, I have another show and I've worked with so many incredible people throughout the years.

I do coaching and training and all sorts of stuff like that.

So on that side I was actually meeting with one of my community members who's also a past coaching client and we were just talking about what's going on in his world, what's new, he had a big promotion and just lots of cool stuff.

We are in the middle of this conversation and I host all my shows from my studio office in the basement of my house.

As you guys may know, working from home is not always rainbows and butterflies.

There are crazy, crazy things that absolutely happen.

When we bought this house, I have had so many weird water situations happen where we had a hose burst outside in the middle of a Canadian winter.

Another fun story.

I was in the middle of show production.

The show must go on but just lots and lots of just strange water situations.

And I was sitting having a great conversation with my past coaching client and midway through I see a drip and then another drip and I'm thinking oh no.

Then guys, it goes to a full on office pour.

My roof let go and it was like raining inside the house all over my computer gear, recording equipment, like $5,000 Apple setup and I freaked, guys, I grabbed everything, I started shoving stuff off the Computer desk.

I am shoving off my computer does.

My computer powers down.

I immediately kill the meeting and I'm freaking out.

I run down the hallway, I'm shutting off the power.

My thought is a water pipe has burst in my ceiling and it is destroying all of my recording and computer equipment.

You can see the, the panic and franticness on my face.

I'm running upstairs, I'm yelling, shelby, Shelby, what is happening?

What is happening?

And she is freaking out because she also doesn't know.

And then it clicks and she goes, oh my gosh.

I left the mop running in the laundry room sink.

And guys, the mop had overflowed.

It had been pouring down the vents in the laundry room and coming right down into my office directly over my computer desk.

And thank goodness, no damage, no permanent damage was done.

And I ended up calling my past client back and I'm like, dude, you wouldn't believe what just happened.

He's like, I saw the water.

I saw the water and I thought it was the end.

And so there you go, lesson learned, busy life.

We have lots of kids.

We have five kids in this family, two very little ones.

And my wife is incredible.

She works so very hard, but you know what, things happen.

And, and it was one of those days where a little tap left on in the laundry room nearly destroyed this show, my other show.

And yeah, all the work I do from home.

So there you have it.

I used to work there.

Story from yours truly, Kelly Kennedy.

My very first one, although I'm sure will not be my last.

It's raining in my office.

For my next story, it is my pleasure to welcome Mike from Edmonton back to the show.

Thank you.

He actually had a few back to back stories which I thought were absolutely hilarious.

This one is going to blow your minds.

It is maybe not safe for work, but it's hilarious.

So don't worry about it.

It is my pleasure to welcome back Mike to the show where he is gonna talk about an office bachelor party.

Yes, you heard me correctly, an office bachelor party.

Mike, what the heck happened?

So I going back to my 20s, let's be clear on that.

Okay, so I'm going to plead young and dumb.

So there's about.

So I'm in a trade.

I'm actually what they call a power engineer.

So I used to take care of buildings, mechanical equipment and in this particular area there was four office towers and the seventh floor of the building was vacant and one of our colleagues decided to be an idiot and get married.

So we're like, there's so many of us make that choice.

We gotta have a stag, right?

It's as simple as that.

Yes.

And so we decided, well, where are we gonna have this?

Well, we have a vacant floor in the building.

Not a big deal, right?

In my mind, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Yeah.

Okay, so.

So we get it all arranged.

We.

We have a stripper.

You.

You like the full meal.

This is back 20 years ago.

Okay.

Maybe even 25 years ago.

Yes, 25 years back when you could.

Bring your stripper to work.

Yes.

Yes.

So it's just.

It's a Friday night, no less.

A Friday night.

So we're all geared up and we're, you know, to get.

We get the music.

We got like 40 guys.

The.

The guy getting married, I'll say his name was Brooks.

Okay, Just.

Just for the sake of saying this.

And Brooks was a little.

He's a little son of a bitch.

This guy was just an ass.

And when he drank, it got worse.

So.

And looking back in time, I thought this was all a good idea at the time.

So we get the strippers.

Like, everyone's drinking, and we're all in a vacant space of a building that we don't own, that we have absolutely no right to be in.

Do this.

Like, we take care of the mechanical.

What are we doing?

What are we thinking?

Just because we have keys, we're allowed to do this?

Anyways, we.

We get it all arranged, and Brooks.

And everyone's drinking, right?

And we're all having fun.

And all of a sudden, the old phone call.

And back then, it wasn't a cell phone.

It was an actual phone.

Okay, I'm here.

So we go down the elevator and we grab her.

She comes up and got the lights and everything, right?

And Brooks is in the chair, and we're all.

And here's the thing.

Back then, there were no digital cameras either, right?

I had an actual camera.

Imagine me, this guy is getting a lap dance.

And, you know, he's drinking.

You name it.

And I'm taking pictures, thinking it's okay.

Honestly, in my mind, this is normal.

Yeah.

So Brooks is drinking.

All of a sudden, she has a little break, right?

In the meantime, she's giving other people lap dances.

I won't get into that.

And Brooks decides he's gonna go to the washroom.

Yeah, right.

I thought he was gonna puke.

Honestly, that's.

But no, he goes in, gets totally naked.

Oh, my God.

And he comes, and this guy's a little short, chubby guy.

Okay?

That's the best Part.

And he comes out and he's like, okay, I'm ready for my next dance.

I'm like, brooke, you.

What are you doing, man?

You can't come naked.

What's wrong with you?

Did I stop taking pictures?

No.

Oh, my God.

And anyways, we like, okay, you got to get dressed, man.

You got to get dressed.

All right, so.

So anyways, I, I.

Nothing went bad after that.

Thank God, because it could have.

You know, we paid the stripper and off she went, and we kept drinking.

But anyways, so here's the funny part.

Not the fact that I'm in a building that we don't own, and I've just.

We just took over a space that we probably had no right to do, and we have a stripper anyways.

But.

So two weeks later, of course, I take the film in and I get it developed and.

And now we're sitting down.

Every year, every morning we had coffee, right?

And.

And talk about.

I say, I got the pictures, guys.

Let's look.

And we're all going through the photos.

It's like, holy, this is awesome.

And then the guy one.

Guys I work with goes, you know.

You know, Mike, you can't show these to anybody.

And I'm like,.

You're right.

First of all, I can't show them to his soon to be wife.

That's number one.

Yeah.

Secondly, they can't all of a sudden show that we had a stripper on a vacant floor of a building that we had no right to be in.

So back then, I can't remember, 25 bucks for film development.

I'm like, okay, guys, last chance to look at them, because these are going to go.

Yeah, yeah.

And then it dawned on me.

Yeah, maybe that wasn't such a good idea.

Having a stripper on a vacant floor of a building and then.

And then photographing it to get evidence.

Photograph evidence that I can never use.

That.

Yeah, that got out of hand quickly.

Well, like I said in my mind at the time, I thought, that's okay.

Yeah.

Wow, man.

We've had some crazy stories, Mike, but that one, that one's up there on the list now.

Oh, my goodness.

All right.

Probably not a good idea to throw your stag at your work location.

Just.

That's right there.

Word to the wise, word to the younger generation.

Yes, I'm in my 50s.

Choices than.

Mike.

I'm in my 50s now, so I know better, I think.

Amazing, Mike.

Thank you for another incredible story.

If you have a story like this, we want to hear it.

H ri used to work there.

Dot com.

Thanks, Mike.

We'll see you on the next one.

All right, for our next story, I am actually proud and excited to welcome my brother to the show who has worked a number of crazy jobs in his life.

And there is probably more than one story here, but he wanted to talk to us about an experience he had when he was working security.

Tell us what happened.

Hey, y', all, my name is DJ Kennedy.

In fairness, I should tell you that Kelly Kennedy is my baby brother.

I'm super proud of his podcasts and I'm very happy that I've got a story that actually might fit into his.

His current one.

His current one being.

I used to work there.

I live in B.C.

And a friend of mine thought that I might be interested in working security.

When I first started working concerts in Vancouver, I had to phone the different companies who were doing those things at Roger's arena.

And after three or four gigs they started phoning me and I would say yes to the first company that called me and then another company would call me who paid more.

And I said, yeah, sorry, I already said yes to someone else.

Honor is first.

Honor is first every single time.

So anyway, a lot of concerts I ever worked, I worked at the.

The dual concerts.

It was a Friday and Saturday night.

Metallica was filming for into the Never.

So we all had to sign affidavits saying, we're not going to ask you for money, blah blah blah, cuz we're all getting paid.

So yeah, the movie into the Never, I'm in it.

I'm the bald guy at the end of Master of Puppets with all of the flames shooting up behind my head.

Holy Christ.

That.

That was hot both of those nights.

Stupid hot with all the pyrotechnics.

That's not the story I want to share with you, but I had to bring you up to speed for that.

I was almost always the guy behind the fence with his back to the stage for the Metallica shows because they were filming.

I had say, 200 people in front of me and I spoke to them before my concert, before the concert.

And, and said, here's the deal.

You don't, you don't get to body surf tonight.

Like, you don't, because I gotta stand here and there's these cameras roaming around.

And if you try to body surf and get in tonight, you're not getting in.

The guy beside me did not talk to his people.

And sure enough, there was a body surfer coming and he had to stop that guy from coming.

And the crowd moved and buddy dropped, Boom, six feet onto concrete.

Oh my God.

Yeah, drop.

I don't know what happened to him.

So anyway, ordinarily I was the guy behind the fence at the Paul McCartney concert.

I was not that guy.

I was the guy standing behind all of the people who paid big bucks to be front row and they had folding chairs and behind me was the, the sound group.

And the stage was ahead of me.

I actually got to watch the show.

Well, along the very back row of all these seats, there was an older gentleman who came up to me and said, excuse me, could you please get this letter to Sir Paul McCartney?

I said, pardon?

I said, dude, I'm not even allowed to talk to Sir Paul.

What's this about?

He showed me a placard from when he was a band member in England.

He was in the backup band for the very first gig that the Beatles called themselves the Beatles.

And he just wanted to get a letter to Sir Paul to say thank you very much for all of this and thank you very much for all of that.

I said, I, I can't do that.

I'm not allowed to.

But however, let me talk to the sound crew right behind me.

So I went to talk to the sound guys and I said, look, here's the situation.

This guy was the warm up band for the Beatles when they first called themselves the Beatles.

I said, he's got a letter for Sir Paul.

I said, what can we do about this?

And the sound guys were all, you gotta be kidding me.

I said, no, I'm not kidding you.

And I want to make this happen.

How can we make this happen?

And they said, hey, you give me that letter, I'll make sure he gets it.

I said, okay, let me go talk to the gentleman.

So I went and spoke with the gentleman and I spoke with his wife and they said, are you sure?

I said, I'm not sure, but they said they would.

So he hands me the letter, I bring it to the sound guys.

And my voice that you're hearing right now is not the voice I use when I'm working security.

I, when I'm Working security.

This is my voice.

And when I speak, everybody kind of listens because I have a voice.

And when I spoke with these guys at the sound table, I said, are you going to make sure that Sir McCartney gets this letter?

They assured me they absolutely would.

To me, that was the epitome of all of the years that I've worked security making sure that this gentleman's letter got to Sir McCartney because it was important, and I truly hope he got it.

I do not know if he did or did not, but I did every thing I could to make sure that happened.

So that's my very cool security story, the one that, to this day, impacts me.

I hope that it's at least entertained you and made you feel something.

No point in writing or talking if it doesn't make someone feel something.

All y' all have a great day.

And thank you, Kelly, for letting me on your show.

Have a great day.

Ciao.

And thank you, dj, for coming on and being my very first family member to come on and tell any stories on any of my shows, for that matter, which was very special for me.

For anyone out there who has, you know, big brothers, we always aspire to make them proud and do great things, be just like them.

And I grew up hoping to be just like my big brother, dj.

So thank you so much for that, dj.

It was truly special for me, and it is an incredible story.

Okay, and with that, it is time to shift gears.

We are heading now into the Night Shift.

And today's Night Shift has some pretty freaking crazy stories.

So some of the wildest stories we have heard yet on the show.

We're gonna start out with one that is a little bit more mild, and then we are really getting into the shit, so stick with us.

For our first story, we are heading back to the 90s, oil and gas in Alberta, Canada.

It is my pleasure to welcome Darrell from Alberta to the show.

Darrell, tell us what happened.

All right, so my story begins in the early 90s.

This was a time when computers were just starting to come out and all kinds of new, fantastic things were starting up in the industry.

And we're doing a major expansion for an oil and gas company, and started out two years, 2 billion, which was a fairly big project at the time.

But anyways, a couple years later, it wasn't done, and the 2 billion was spent, and we needed another billion to finish it.

Wow.

Now, that's.

That's a bit of a cost overrun.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, you know, however, you know, this was a big company, and they might be Able to absorb that cost and make that money up at some point.

Yeah.

But, yeah, that's kind of how it started out.

So as we were overrun and budgets were gone and stuff, the head guy from the company decided to come back, come over from Europe and decided he was gonna tune us in and tell us all about how to do a proper budget and do a job on time.

So that was quite interesting.

So we were all looking forward to that.

And, you know, we sitting there, we're waiting in the meeting and, you know, we're expecting this, you know, big boss to come in, you know, and I'm expecting to see something.

I've got a vision in my mind what this guy might look like.

And he walks in and he's five foot three, However, you know, still intimidating.

You know, we knew what his role was.

And, you know, he had this look in his eye that if anybody was going to, you know, say anything online, he's going to fire the whole group, right?

So anyways, he comes in and starts the meeting and starts talking about the budget, and people are telling them why things happened and this happened.

And then he's like, I don't agree.

That's not the way it is.

And pretty soon his little bald head had veins popping out of it as he started getting angrier and his face started turning red from the veins down, and now it's down to his nose and he's really getting angry.

And he goes on for another few minutes and again talks a little bit more about dollars.

Every time we hit dollars, it got a little heated.

So he turned really red this time and he actually started and he decided he's going to walk around the room and he's going to, you know, make people turn their chairs and look at him and follow him around the room.

And as he's walking around, he's, you know, kind of angry and everybody's not really saying anything.

We're just kind of listening to what he has to say.

And previous to this, earlier in the day, one of the field engineers that we worked with came into my office and he showed me he had a new tool for his computer.

And it was a little, little pad that was basically had a plastic pencil and you could write on it.

But the cool thing at the time in the 90s was you could take it back, plug it into your computer, and it would come up on the screen already typed up.

So.

So it was a tablet before tablets.

Yeah, it was quite high tech at the time.

It was quite impressive, actually.

You know, he was quite impressive you know, and this guy had four years of university education, so he was impressed.

So I thought it must be good.

And anyways, he brought it into the meeting, and he was sitting there, and I think he was intended to take some notes at the time, but as the meeting went along and the big boss got angrier and angrier, and we're walking around, and then all of a sudden he notices this tablet sitting beside this young kid that's sitting beside me.

He looks at it and he says, what is this?

He picks it up and he starts yelling and he goes, nobody, I mean nobody records me while I'm talking without my permission.

Do you understand me?

And he's right in the guy's face.

He grabs the tablet, throws it against the wall.

Busted into a thousand pieces.

It's all over the place.

Plastic pieces all over, you know, just.

It was just a mess.

So anyways, the whole place is silent.

Like, everybody's just, what the hell just happened, man?

Like, that's just crazy.

And then the kid says, hey, that's not a recorder.

Now, there's a couple laughs in the room, but.

But the kid's quite.

He's.

He's upset about this.

Probably a couple thousand dollars.

We just.

This, right.

He's just stunned, and he's looking there and he's kind of got like, wet eyes, you know, he looks like he's about to cry.

He didn't know what happened.

And then after he says that, the guy's walking around and he's like, oh, how much did you pay for it?

That kid's like, well, he says, about $400.

Yeah, okay, just come to my office after and I'll pay you.

Oh, my gosh.

I don't know.

Like, I don't.

Obviously, the worst part about this is that you guys are all trying not to cry, laughing.

Oh, absolutely.

Like, he was angry at all of us.

He had a point for all of us during this meeting, you know, like, this could have been better.

This could have been better.

And, you know, you guys do this and you guys do that, you know, so by the time it went around, you know, we kind of all heard what he had to say about us.

Right?

Yeah, so it was kind of funny.

Like, actually, you know, but then again, you know, you knew the serious of the meeting and, you know, you didn't want to really take it too far.

Yeah, no kidding.

Like, I.

Like, obviously, it's absolutely hilarious.

I think everybody in that room was probably doing everything they could.

Like, I feel like people had to turn their heads.

People probably had to look down, like, I can't see anybody in that meeting, like, able to keep a straight face when something like that.

You couldn't make eye contact with one person in that room because if you did, it was going to bust out.

Everybody was getting.

Everybody's looking at the ceiling, the board where the guy was writing, and it's like, oh, yeah, hey, nobody in this room but me.

Oh, my goodness.

No, that's hilarious.

And I can absolutely see why that stuck with you.

I feel like that's.

That will be with you until your last memory.

Darrell, that is absolutely hilarious.

Yeah.

The other thing, I didn't know you could smash electronics like that.

No kidding.

I thought maybe a couple of pieces, but this was like 50 pieces.

Yeah.

No, that's absolutely insane.

No, that's amazing.

And thank you so much for that and I very much look forward to having you back on the show.

All right, thank you.

And as luck would have it, we wouldn't have to wait all that very long until Darrel shared yet another incredible.

Darrell, you had some crazy experiences while you were in Russia.

Tell us what happened.

And yeah, we had to.

It was a 54 hour trip from Edmonton to the project where we were working.

So was long term, long drive, long everything.

So we had to fly, drive, train, the whole ball of wax.

So anyways, we'd get on this train in a place called Yuzno, which is on Sakhalin island, which is just north of Japan.

And it was about a 17 hour train ride to the job site because the train had to stop at every little town and it drop a few things off, move on to the next town.

And so it wasn't that the trip was as long, but it was fairly long.

But it might have been a two hour train ride, but it ends up 17 with all the stops.

Right.

So anyways, yeah, we get on the train and you know, you're in Russia and you know, this is the first time most of us had been in that country.

None of us speak Russian.

Right.

You know, the first thing that happens is you walk in and there's these cabins and they've got four little bunk beds, but we got executive class, I guess, and we each had our own.

Right.

So you walk in and there's a giant bottle of beer on the table and there's like three hot dogs rolled up in cellophane and a couple pieces of chocolate, and it's like, okay, well, whatever.

This is fine, right?

And, you know, then you're sitting there and, you know, then I'm in Russia.

I'm like, I don't know, you know, maybe I'll just close my door.

You know, I'm not sure what kind of hoodlums are walking on this train, right?

So I close my door and I'm sitting there for maybe five minutes, and train's getting ready to go.

Now all of a sudden, this lady comes and throws my door open, flies open and starts yelling at me in Russian like, you know, I'm like, what do you want?

They don't know what the hell you want.

And she's yelling at me more like, you know, And I'm like, wow.

You know, like, I don't know what you want.

I can't help you.

And then she sees my ticket on the.

On the table, and she grabs my ticket.

Then she goes, oh, Pajal stuff.

Closes my door.

All she wanted was my ticket.

So.

So anyways, we get going and.

And the train's going along, and I had to go to the washroom.

So anyways, I'm going to the train, and they've got these silver footsteps at the same level as the toilet seat.

And I'm like, wow, I wonder what that's for.

But anyways, you go in there and what happens is that everything would go right onto the tracks, right?

So when you stop.

When you stopped at a train station, the place would lock, and that's usually what would wake you up.

The train would stop, you have to go for a pee.

And you walk over there, and it's like, it's locked.

What the hell, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

They don't.

They don't want a bunch of waste at the train station.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So what I'm thinking, well, I gotta find something here, right?

So this is like three in the morning.

But I had to go, man.

And this train was just sitting there forever, right?

So I get off the train.

It's pitch black.

There's like one street light in the middle of this concrete pad.

Couple of buildings that look like they were tipped over and half busted up, but there was a light on inside.

So somebody was living in there, right?

So anyways, I see this door, and this is like three in the morning.

And I walk up to the door, and all of a sudden this lady throws this table in front of the door, like a sliding table, and starts talking and yelling at me again in Russian.

Right?

So I'm like, what's going on?

And then I notice it's a washroom, right?

And then I'm just pointing in there like, you know, like, hey, man, I need to go.

Me in there.

Me need washroom.

He's like, you know, nat, nat, Nat.

You know, she's holding the table.

And anyway, she.

She finally puts her hand out, so I'm like, oh, yeah, she wants some rubles, right?

So I gave her, like, five rubles.

And tables out of the way.

Way I go.

I met the entrepreneur at the toilet.

So, yeah, I don't know what I gave her.

I think I gave her like, 10 bucks in Canadian money.

So I think she made a big haul there.

Anyways, but you gotta go.

You gotta go.

Yeah, exactly.

So anyways, we get back on the train.

I'm standing there with this guy from Texas, and we're looking out the window, and he says to me, yeah?

He says, I think this place.

He said, I can't believe we were scared of this place.

I said, what do you mean?

He said, when I was in school, he says, we used to have an alarm.

And he says, we all had to jump under our desk because they tell us the Russians are coming.

The Russians are coming.

And he says, like, it's like.

We're like, we're scared, man, of these guys.

He said, looking out the window here, he says, I don't think these fucking guys have a missile that works.

He says, oh, you sure?

This place, people living in rubbish.

And.

And then I said to him, I said, yeah, you're probably right.

But I said, it only takes one, right?

To work.

It only takes one.

That's right.

It doesn't matter.

Yeah.

So anyways, we get going, and this guy, you know, he's a smaller guy, and I didn't really feel like drinking my beer, so I gave my beer to him.

And I'm talking.

These were big beers.

Like, these were probably three liters.

Like, they're huge, right?

So I gave him my beer and we go to the next stop, and it stops and he has to go to the washroom again.

But he's.

He's pretty hammered by this time.

And he walks off.

And I just happened to be up, stretching my legs, looking out the window, and the train's getting ready to go, and actually the wheels are turning.

And I see him standing there leaning against this post, right?

And I'm like, I think I better get him to get on this damn train, because I don't.

I'd feel awful if I left him here and never saw him again, right?

So I get off the train and I, I grab him and I'm like, hurry up, man.

The train.

And it's starting to roll now.

Like it's going a couple miles an hour and he's drunk, so.

So I basically had him under my arm and I'm running, I grab onto the rail and I flip him up on this, on the platform and get him in there.

He didn't even remember the next morning.

He didn't, he didn't.

He's like, no, that did.

I. I don't remember that.

And I'm going, wow, it happened.

So anyways, me, we kept going in the train and it was all good and I was getting a little hungry and I looked at my three cellophane wrapped hot dogs there and I was like, not chance in hell I'm going to eat any of these.

Nothing like a little plastic wrap on your hot dogs.

Exactly.

So, you know, so they had some kind of things that kind of resembled a mix between a Dorito and a chip.

So I had a few of those.

And anyways, I, you know, didn't want to really waste the food or leave it there and pretend I didn't like their hot dogs.

So I thought I'd be polite and I put them in my pocket and we get to this town called Noglicki and I get out of the train and I never seen so many homeless, hungry dogs in my life.

And they were all there, they're all skinny, and I felt sorry for them, right?

And then they're sitting there, so I'm like, oh, hey, I got these hot dogs, right?

So I'm like busting up this hot dog, giving it to these dogs.

And next thing there's about 15 of them there, right?

Trying to give me.

Yeah.

But it was so funny whenever that, whenever I'd come on that train from that point forward for probably the next whatever 15 rotations I had there, I'd get off that train and those dogs would see me, they'd all come running.

And I'd always recognize you.

There's the hot dog guy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So then, you know, yeah, it was a long train, right?

Like, say we get there, it'd be 17 hours, and then we'd have another two hour drive to the job site.

And you know, we get to the job site and.

And our security was actually kgb because the KGB was starting to kind of fall apart a bit.

And these guys were making more money doing security, right?

So when it comes to security, they took it really seriously.

Like, this was like, you know, wasn't like your typical security guard you see here, right?

You know, he waves at you and, you know, guy's got grinder in his back pocket and welding cable wrapped around him.

But they waved to him and let him through, right?

But there it was different.

They were really, really tight.

And it was a dry camp, so, you know, they do breathalyzers and stuff.

And anyways, while you were in the camp, they had, you know, they could search your room and stuff like that occasionally if they wanted.

But for the expats were there, they had to get your permission, right?

They said they were coming around and nobody called me, so I thought, oh, they must not have did my room.

And I get back to my room, and there's doggy footprints all the way around my room, right?

And I'm like, what the hell?

So I see the security guy walking by, and he spoke a little bit English, but not very much, right?

And I'm like, hey, you know, you're supposed to call me before you go in there.

Oh, I was not there.

He says, and I said, you were, too.

I said, you.

Your dog was in my room.

He says, no, I was not there.

I go, you.

I said, come look at my room.

I said, look, see those footprints?

I said, that's not mine.

Then he's like, oh, yeah.

I said, hey.

I said, I don't mind if you.

You.

If you search my room when I'm not there.

But I said, just tell your dog to wipe his damn feet before he goes in my room.

Wow.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's good times.

Good times.

Yeah.

Were you, you know, were you ever afraid?

What?

You know, I don't know the exact date that that kind of Russia had its collapse, but I think it was about mid-90s, right?

Were you ever afraid being there?

Like, I know as Canadians, I'm not sure that we were ever, like.

I mean, I'm young, so I don't know, but I kind of feel like as Canadians, maybe not as much, but I, like, it's surprising to hear that there were Americans there.

Yeah, actually, there was.

The majority were Americans, like, Canadians.

There was probably maybe 10%, and the rest were Americans.

There were times when it got a little shaky, you know, like, they, you know, here's an example.

Like, when I was there, I had this guy that they said was a regulatory guy, and he had to have an office, and he had to sit there and I had to pay him, right?

So anyways, he didn't do Anything.

And he had this fancy stamp that he'd stop our documents every once in a while.

So anyways, he came to me one day, and he tells me, oh, you need to hire four more.

I said, four more?

What?

Four more like me?

And I said, no, not happening.

Go back to your office.

And then he come again, and he had a letter from his boss saying, four more.

I said, I just told you no.

I said, take your letter and tell your boss no, right?

I'm not hiring four more.

Because I said.

I said, what do you do all day?

Oh, you know, stamp.

And I said, I got, like, two documents stamped in three weeks, so I don't think I need four of you.

So I didn't think anything of it.

And then all of a sudden, like, maybe a week later, I was out in the field, and I get a call on the radio.

They're like, yeah, Daryl.

Yeah.

You got to come to the boardroom.

There's some people here to see you, right?

I'm like, what?

To see me?

Like, who else here?

Yeah, right.

As I'm driving up to the office, the complex that we're in, there's a bunch of army jeeps in the thing there.

Like, there's a jeep and a couple of trucks, right?

A couple guys down there with guns, right?

The military's come to get you.

That's all about right?

So we get in and we sit down, and I brought an interpreter because she'd help me see what's going on.

But I pretty much knew, because once I walked in, the guy's.

There's a general there, and he's got, like, five stars on his hat and five stars on each arm, and he's got medals from one shoulder to the other.

And he's talking, and he's like, blah, blah, blah, blah, Darryl, blah, blah, blah, Darrell, Daryl, blah, blah.

There's a lot of.

There's too many Darrells coming out of his mouth.

This doesn't sound good.

And then.

Then the interpreter goes.

He says, you.

You didn't listen to him.

He wanted to hire four more.

And you said, no?

And I said, yeah, that's right.

I said no.

And he's like, my boss is beside me, and he's like, daryl, just say yes.

What's going on here?

What's going on?

But apparently, these guys there was, like, the Russian gas company was owned by the mob.

So these guys, these guys work for the mafia indirectly, and that's.

They used to pay these guys, like, $7 an hour, and they charge us 85, 12 hours a day, seven days a week.

So they're making big money on these guys, right?

So.

So anyways, I had five of them, but I didn't give them another office.

They all had to share one little office.

So it's a bit crowded.

But we did type for space.

Wow, wow, wow.

Yeah.

Crazy, crazy times, Crazy times.

Lots of incredible story.

Daryl, I appreciate you coming on and sharing it with us and look forward to the next one as always.

You bet.

I told you guys we had some crazy stories tonight and that one did not disappoint.

Thanks again, Darrell, for sharing that wild time in Russia.

And now it's time to talk to the Wolf of Wall Street.

No, not the real Wolf of Wall street, but the funny thing about this story submission is this.

It started with does the stuff on Wolf of Wall street really happen?

The answer is yes.

It is my pleasure to welcome Daveed back to the show.

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Daveed.

I'm on the edge of my seat, man.

What the hell happened?

I don't know, Kelly.

There's a lot of things that happened.

I'll tell you that.

I was like, I'm very surprised.

And when I heard the story of that again, I'm going back to that yacht in Greece.

I was like, ooh, ooh.

I got a plane out of Malacca, Italy.

Okay, let's see, let's see what happens here.

So just, yeah, so just to let you know, this was years ago again, but it was a brand new adventure for me.

Completely brand new adventure.

I started my own company in a high end community and people that know my name will know that it's lighting, right?

So yeah, it's all about the lighting world and design.

And we ended up working across Canada and Europe on designing projects.

Beautiful work, amazing technology.

And finally I got to meet a certain person that introduced me to the next level of business development.

And this is where again, when you're in your self entrepreneurship, you don't know what business development really is.

You're just operating, you're just working, you're just doing your thing, right?

This is your daily task.

Nothing else to worry about.

And here he goes.

Hey, I want you to come to Toronto and then I want you to join me at the manufacturer event.

I'm like, manufacturer event?

Like, what do you mean, manufacturer event?

Okay.

I am branded to the industry, brand new to this product knowledge repping and anything, Right.

Just recently, I got to go to the OTC event at the Offshore Technology Conference, and that one was big.

Okay, That's a big facility.

So here it is for the lighting industry again.

Brands making it to the industry.

I fly to Toronto.

He looks at me, he's like, hey, you ready to go?

I'm like, sure.

Where are we going?

Just met this guy Again.

Just met this guy.

He's like, don't worry about it.

You're doing great on sales, but we need to get another manufacturer on board with us.

And I was like, yeah, sure, whatever.

Whatever it is.

He's like, yeah, we're going to Milan.

I'm sorry, what?

What?

What?

He said the biggest shows happen over there.

It's not design week in Milano.

I was like, okay, let's go.

Let's go to Milano.

Okay.

Yeah, I think I can.

I gotta call my wife and let her know, right?

All right.

He's like, hey, you got a blazer?

I'm like, I have no blazer.

Like, I was not planning to do any of this, right?

He's like, well, we gotta go shopping.

I'm like, okay, fine.

Right here we are like, basically that.

What's that show called?

Suits?

The lawyers walking into the facility, looking at the price and going, yeah, no, I'm not buying.

I know that feeling.

Yeah.

I was like, no.

The guy's like, don't worry about it.

I got it.

I got it.

You know, we're going to do great business together, and I need you on this one.

I'm like, yeah, sure, let's.

Let's do this.

Right?

Fine.

The guy comes, you know, he sizes me up and he's like, oh, where are you guys going?

We're going to Milano for design week over there.

He's like, oh, you need a blazer.

That's a party blazer.

So here's a blazer.

He goes, this is business.

And he shows me.

And then the pockets are all tucked in, the collar is down.

This is business, you know?

And then he flips the collar up, pockets inside out, all this beautiful little accessories on his.

Now it's party.

I was like, okay, all right, now I know what to do, I guess.

I like, what am I doing?

I go, I'm a trades person, as you know, right?

I have mud, dirt, coveralls, and here I am with a Blazer, that's like five grand plus.

I was like, okay, all right.

We jumped on a plane.

Standard plane, nothing crazy there.

Eight hour, nine hour flight, right.

To get to Italy, Milan.

We get over there, he's excited.

The guy I'm with, he's like excited.

A little bit of a drink or two.

So we had a couple vodkas and enjoyed life, right?

And he goes, we have to run to the facility immediately.

We gotta go there quickly to the Expo center, let's call it.

And I was blown.

Just the aspect and the idea of how big this manufacturing event is.

So in Edmonton, we have our Northlands or our Expo.

Yes.

One building, right.

This place had 12 buildings like that.

Wow.

So, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And the setups are 50,000, 70,000 square feet.

The booths are a million dollar plus.

Right.

It was like, holy mother.

It was completely over my head.

And we're running into these buildings, we're registering for meetings.

For meetings, for meetings.

So we want to gain these manufacturers, we want to bring them to Canada, right?

So say, okay, let's do this, let's do this.

And he, and then he comes up to me, by the way, that one right there, that manufacturer is the one we have to get.

It's a big deal.

It's multiple million dollars worth of manufacturing products for the Americas.

And he said that Americas.

And I was like, okay, sure, not a problem.

He said, by the way, this one over here, we helped them design a couple lights for the Victoria's Secret fashion show.

And that one over there, we did the soccer club called Giovintos Italy.

Soccer team.

He's like, they have a party tonight.

We're going, oh, nowhere.

What?

No, we're not.

I thought we were looking at lights like, like, I. Dude, I don't know.

This is.

This to me doesn't sound right already.

It's like, I, I like the idea.

Mostly in Italy, Milan.

Like, this is.

This is gonna be really cool, right?

Yeah.

So we do our thing, we go through booth after booth.

You know how it is when it goes to those events.

Get to know more people, get to know what the industry is really about.

And finally the.

That, what is it called?

The hour of having a little bit fun, you know, tasting wine, cheese, all this stuff.

Right?

So here we are, booth after booth with wine, cheese, food.

Finally, one of the.

The manufacturer owner says, oh, David.

David, I love that name.

David, come here, come with me.

I'm like, what's going on?

He's like, you got it.

You gotta see this.

You have to come with me.

I'm like, sure.

No, I don't know you.

He's like, no, no, have another drink.

This is the best wine here in Milano.

It's like, okay, have another drink, right?

And then my buddy goes.

He's like, just go with him.

He's just gonna show off his car again, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

Here.

Sure.

All right, go off with this guy.

Turns out he's a doctor and a designer of lighting.

Makes a lot of money.

We go to this car.

He's got a Ferrari.

Park there.

He's like, jump in.

What?

Okay.

Yeah, you know, here we go, right?

And he.

Yeah, we go for a ride, a drive.

We stop.

It's.

Again, I don't know these places.

Like, I was so, so over my head.

Like, I did not know where I was, where I'm going.

Which way is left?

Right?

Here I am in a million dollar car.

The person's trying to.

I have no idea what they're trying to do with me, okay?

I don't.

I don't bring anything to you guys.

Why am I here?

Right?

So, yeah, we went to a little corner, a pub, club kind of situation, right?

And immediately you just walk in and the atmosphere is literally like.

Like, just energetic.

Everybody just wants to party.

Just go, right?

The music's going.

We're going, okay, great, have another wine.

I was like, okay, have another wine.

Like, here we go.

At least when in Italy.

Yeah, when in Italy.

At least we're not in Mexico.

Tequila, right?

So.

So here I am, just, okay, getting to know people, this and that.

Speaking multiple languages there, not just English, right?

And it's just one thing after another.

Here's the blazer.

The blazer automatically turns into the party blazer.

I was like, what?

Like, I'm looking down.

People have flipped it over.

I was like, okay, they know what they're doing.

Hearing you, right?

Then I get the tap on the shoulder and it's my buddy.

He's like, oh, found you.

Hey, we gotta get going.

He's like, where are we going?

We're going to that Victoria's Secret party.

Why?

I'm very nervous to go there.

He's like, are you married?

I'm like, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

You'll be divorced by the end of it.

Come on, let's go.

I was like, okay, all right.

Kelly.

Like, I'm a medium sized man.

Like, that place is 6 foot 2, minimum.

They left out.

It's also the male model after party.

Why am I here?

Right?

Like, it's just like, why am I here?

And so we're in there.

Again, the energy is very lively, very strong, very.

Not energetic yet, but strong.

Like, everybody's looking at everybody like, who are you?

What are you bringing?

Like, who are you gonna be at the end of the night, right?

And all of a sudden, the manufacturer that he wanted to engage with is there, and there's two guys, young guys, and they get a VIP area for us, and it's like, wow.

The view is nice, the seating is nice, and the drinks are nice.

All right?

I have no idea what I'm doing in my life.

I'm gonna enjoy it, right?

I'm gonna go forward.

All right, all right.

All of a sudden, my body goes, all right, we're gonna order your best vodka.

Just your best vodka.

Bring it on.

Here it is.

He brings the vodka.

The lady says, are you sure?

Say, yeah, completely sure.

Let's do this.

And make sure that my two friends here are fully engaged.

Their cups are always full.

And again, for me, brand new atmosphere.

Don't understand what's happening.

I think I've seen this in movies.

I go just looking around, and again, the atmosphere changes.

Again.

It goes into another level.

It'll say, what is this level?

Now, all of a sudden, the doors are locked.

People are really pumping in there.

And all of a sudden, there's model A, male Model B, soccer player.

It's like, okay, another out of this world for me, because I come from Edmonton.

We don't get this.

So here I am, just sitting like a little kid between everybody, just sipping on the straw kind of idea, right?

Watching this.

And all of a sudden, the two guys are like, we love you guys, guys, we love you.

We want to keep doing business with you guys.

And if you want the Americas, this is what we have to do.

Do you have a passport?

And he.

And my buddy looks at me, he goes, do you have a passport?

I'm like, obviously, I have a passport.

I got here somehow.

He's like, no, no, no.

Is it on you right now?

He's like.

And I'm like, actually, it is.

He's like, good, good.

That's.

That's wonderful.

That's.

That's awesome.

Okay, yeah, we're ready.

And he's like, we finish party here, and then we go to next party.

And I was like, another party?

This is already good enough.

This is blowing.

Oh, my.

I only know how to do one at a time.

And this level of party, like, I've never been in a party.

They're giving me these little bags, you know, like, what do they call it?

Oh, I lost The English word goody bags, right?

And it's stuff from the soccer team and the lingerie company.

It's like, yeah, well, I think.

I don't know what I'm going to do with this.

It doesn't make sense.

And there's some high end product in there.

It's like, wow, this bang must be worth easily five to ten grand.

Like, thank you.

Like, I still don't know what to do with this stuff, but thank you.

Right?

Yeah.

So the atmosphere is now is getting more and more rowdy, right?

Like, it's getting rowdy.

Finally, the two gentlemen get up and say, okay, you guys fit the style of party.

We were leaving.

Let's go, bring it.

Make sure your passport's with you and say, all right.

We jump into a car, we drive to the local.

I guess Milan has two airports.

I did not even know that there's an international airport, then there's a city airport.

So we're at the city airport at a private hangar.

First time for me to be on a private jet.

And the jet itself, amazing.

Again, amazing situation.

There's food already served before you go into the plane, right?

So you pick your food, grab your wine, you go up into the plane and there's more food in the plane.

But now these guys control the plane.

Now there's no rules and laws in this plane, right?

And when I watch what was that movie called?

The Iron man and that one plane scene where the pole shows up, I was like, no, no, like, really, this is real.

Like, this is.

This is real.

Like, this is.

Wow, okay?

And the guy's like, we're gonna have so much fun, guys.

You have no idea.

You do not understand is like, what don't we understand?

He's like, oh, we, we.

Our father gets mad at us all the time.

We spend money where we shouldn't, but we're going to have fun.

And I get into, you know, deeper into the plan, and I find a seat and I look over to my left and sorry to say, there's smaller people there.

And I'm like, like, hi, how's it going?

Right?

They just nod their head.

I don't think they spoke English.

Well, let's just nod their head.

Nod their head.

And the guy's like, oh.

And he looked over.

We're going to party good today.

I was like, where are we going?

Like, first of all, where are we going?

Like, I'm on the plane.

Is the party in the plan or are we leaving?

Right?

And my buddy goes, don't ask questions, just go the flow, remember?

And he says it to me in Spanish.

We're trying to get this manufacturer.

We got to impress them.

What is impressing us to them?

They're pressing me right now.

This is crazy.

So here we go.

Plane takes off.

Next thing I noticed it wasn't a long flight.

We're in Switzerland.

In Switzerland.

I think it was called Bern.

Yeah, Bern.

And I was like, okay, it's dark out.

We jump into the car as a whole team.

Everybody, you know, the little.

The smaller people, too.

They literally just threw them in the car.

I was like, just shaking my head.

I was like, okay, all right.

This is real.

This is real.

I'm not hallucinating anything here, am I?

Like, this is real.

Okay, great.

All right, let's go.

We get to this club, and it was a massacre club.

This is again, this is years ago.

And this club's mass is three story high club.

And we walk in, the guy's like, the vodka you guys bought?

I was like, tastes great, but this vodka is better.

How much vodka can one man take in an evening?

Oh, my goodness.

Here goes my buddy.

He's like, done.

Throws a credit card down.

He's like, we're doing this, right?

All right.

All of a sudden, those little people show up, and they're in jumpers, like, jumper suits, and they're like, ready to, like, wrestle.

Like, it was like.

And I'm looking over like, who?

What's going on?

And my buddy, he's.

He's like five foot nothing himself.

He's like.

He gets to the same size.

He's really getting to the emotion of the game.

I don't know what's going on.

All of a sudden, I see these little people being thrown at targets, and I'm like, what?

No.

Yeah, yeah.

So, like, we're literally talking like jackass.

Yeah, pretty much, yeah.

Yep.

And I was like, okay, yeah, I'm not gonna do that.

I'm just gonna enjoy the view here and just sit here and go, like, scratching my head.

What am I doing here?

Like, I'm still going, what am I doing here?

Yeah, yeah.

So, yeah, a couple of the ladies came over.

I've never seen.

Seen people like that.

I'm from Latin America.

To me, these people are giant, tall, gorgeous people.

And we're playing this game.

No idea why.

Okay, let's.

Let's just keep going.

All right.

Drink after drink.

We enjoyed.

We got along.

We got to know how the manufacturer works.

Conversations.

I shook the hands of the smaller people.

I was like, okay, great.

Thank you for your work.

Right.

Okay, great.

I don't know what to do here.

Like, this is.

I don't know anything about this world.

So we get onto the plane, we fly back to Milano and we spend another couple days there to finish off the show.

Then we lean back to Toronto and we go straight to my buddy's office and his facility.

And the accountant comes up.

The accountant, and she's mad.

You guys spent €154,000.

I didn't.

Wow.

I didn't.

And he's like.

He had a headache.

He's like, don't worry, we got this.

I'm like, we.

I came to visit you.

I have.

I'm like, I've lost three years of my life here.

I got it.

I still don't understand what I did, but I like it, I guess.

And then he's like, we're going to get a call, right, Right away.

And the account is, like, mad, just furious, right, that we.

That he spent that money.

He gets a phone call, and the phone call is that manufacturer, right?

And he's like, looks at me, he's like, we did good.

We did good.

And he answered it.

And the guy's like, you guys are our brothers, our bros and this and that.

And just kept going on the conversation.

It was great.

And he goes, just letting you know, you guys got the Americas.

It's yours.

The accountant stopped, stared, and said, you guys got lucky.

You guys got very lucky.

And I was like, how much is this?

He's like, millions of dollars.

Millions.

Yeah.

So good job.

So what do you need from me?

I'm like, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know.

And, yeah.

And then it just.

The business took off from there.

It was really interesting.

But, yeah, that exists, that lifestyle.

Wow.

Wow.

Okay, that's crazy.

And, you know, as one Canadian to another, you're absolutely right.

That does not happen.

No.

However, to my international listeners, if something like this has happened to you, we absolutely want to hear it.

Wow.

Daveed, that is a crazy story.

Thank you so much for sharing it with us.

No worries.

And with that, it is time to wrap up Episode 5 of I Used to Work There.

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