Being at the start of my career I worked for a big corporate American company, at the time 250.000 employees worldwide.

In Belgium we had a dinner party for all employees, meaning blue collar and white collar workers, I would say there could have been like 150 people spread out over maybe 15 round tables. Also there was some European and Worldwide management joining which was always a stressful moment for any local management and always created the kind of organisational chaos like a King would come by. The management table was in the middle of the room.

For the event they chosen a very fancy and expensive restaurant in the middle of Ghent with a nouvelle cuisine style, a lot of small dishes (you would need to examine with a magnifying glass) with delicious flavors that melted on your tongue. Most white collar workers loved it, a lot of blue collar workers didn’t like the small sizes and started complaining they much more would have loved a big steak with french fries.

One guy wanted to make his point in a way he believed to be witty and funny and ordered 9 pizzas into the restaurant.

You can imagine what happened when the pizza guy with helmet on and 9 pizzas entered the fancy restaurant asking who the pizzas were for. From quite a noisy environment, in 2 seconds it was as quite as you could here a pin drop on the floor. Silence. Even the guy who ordered seemed to be intimated as no one raised their hand. After about a (very long) minute, the guy who ordered put up his hand and mumbled in a slightly broken voice ‘here!’.

The pizza guy walked up to the table like walking up the aisle covered still in silence with about 300 eyes fixed on him. He put the 9 pizzas on the table, got his money and left.

The mumbling and sounds of disbelief started welling up. Management decided not to react nor make a scene. The person who ordered didnt make the end of the day after as an employee of the company.