The time a squirrel shut down our entire office for an afternoon

This was about three years ago at my old job in a small town in Ohio. We were in a single-story building, and one afternoon, the power just died. No storm, no flicker, just gone. After an hour of waiting, the building manager found the issue: a squirrel had chewed through the main power line coming into the building. The funniest part? The electrician showed up, pointed at the fried squirrel still on the line, and just said, 'Well, there's your culprit.' Has anyone else had a workplace completely derailed by wildlife?

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noahhall29d ago

Actually seeing the fried squirrel is a whole new level of workplace disruption. That's not just a power outage, it's a full crime scene. Hard to focus on spreadsheets after that.

jakelee29d ago

Wait, the squirrel was still on the line when the electrician got there? That's a pretty grim picture to end the workday with. I can't imagine just trying to get back to my emails after seeing that. Did they have to, like, remove it before they could fix the wire? The whole office must have been talking about that for weeks.