I worked for a marketing firm pre pandemic in SoCal. In addition to email, social, web marketing, we also had a staffing arm of the company.
This “talent” agency was responsible for staffing most of the people at CES and similar trade shows. Companies would hire a few people to staff the events. In 2019 we had a bunch of different staff fly to Vegas for the event. One of the staff was hired last minute but was told to go to the airport and it would be covered.
Gets to the airport and there was an issue with the ticket. The talent called our CEO while standing at the airport to let him know he needed $200 for a change in the flight. Rather than just give our company card, our CEO told him to buy the ticket and we would reimburse him.
The employee didn’t have an extra $200 to his name and our CEO was pissed. Kept walking around saying “who doesn’t have an extra $200”. Uh maybe all of your employees asshole.