At our most recent staff meeting, the company president announced that, even though we didn’t make our company financial goal for the quarter, we did make it for the fiscal year and as a result, we’d each be receiving a substantial bonus. This came as a huge shock to my coworkers and I, because we’d been tracking the numbers very carefully and realized when the fiscal year ended last week that we had no chance of getting our bonuses. When the announcement came at the meeting, chaos broke out as we erupted into enthusiastic cheers. I felt myself starting to tear up with happy excitement, at which point I cried out, “I think I’m going to pee on myself!”
Everyone was shocked for a moment and I dropped my head into my arms on the table. Then hysterical laughter ensued, and my boss offered to get me a plastic bag on which I could sit.