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The Mens Room Daily Podcast

What Is The Craziest Or Most Scandalous Thing To Happen At Work?

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Question of the Day

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Now if you've ever gone to a corporate event, oftentimes shenanigans can happen to corporate events.

0:05.4

As far as you're traveling maybe or maybe you're just taking over a Marriott ballroom for a weekend or whatever the deal is.

0:11.5

People are sleeping in hotels, but you go to an event and you

0:14.6

know things do happen.

0:16.0

This is not what anyone expected.

0:18.0

A party for employees of a software company called Vistics. The entire software party ended in tragedy when the

0:26.9

company CEO was killed and its president was seriously injured. Now this was obviously a freak accident.

0:34.6

There were 700 people that were in attendance from Vistec at this party in India to

0:40.4

celebrate Asia's 25th anniversary when the CEO Sanjay Shah of Chicago and President

0:47.8

Raju Datla were lifted above the crowd in an iron cage during an aerial show for the crowd.

0:55.0

Okay. So they were either falling, being lowered down onto the stage.

1:00.0

Like a couple of lions?

1:01.0

No, yeah, basically, but that was their entrance. They were on a platform.

1:04.0

You're typical tech CEO, your entrance must be grand. It must compete with KISS or Cirque du Soleil.

1:09.9

You can't just walk onto a freaking stage stand at the podium and talk.

1:13.8

So wires holding the cage suddenly snapped, sitting them in tumbling 20 feet, but the

1:20.0

surface below was a concrete stage.

1:24.3

Shah who founded Vistex in 1999, he died at a hospital,

1:27.7

and Dattler was still reported to be in critical condition.

1:31.6

A director of Vistex alleges organizers of the event

1:35.0

failed to implement adequate safety measures you don't say police are investigating

1:39.1

the accident in addition to a lack of safety precautions, the director wrote in a police complaint,

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