Kidnapped Three Times, Miracle on the Hudson, $5,000 Phone Sex Bill

Kidnapped Three Times, Miracle on the Hudson, $5,000 Phone Sex Bill

September 3, 2026 · 1h 16m · Season 1 · Episode 13

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This episode features a collection of unbelievable workplace stories, including a kidnapping saga and the Miracle on the Hudson.

What happens when a mysterious office phone bill exposes $5,000 in phone sex calls, an ordinary business trip places one man aboard US Airways Flight 1549, and a security consultant is kidnapped not once, not twice, but three separate times? On Episode 13 of I Used To Work There , we have assembled what may be the most unbelievable collection of workplace stories we have ever released. From an emergency room nurse helping a chef escape an extremely uncomfortable zipper situation to a powerful Canadian workplace perspective from September 11, 2001, these stories move from hilarious to historic in a matter of minutes. Then, we meet the last passenger rescued from the Miracle on the Hudson and hear what it was like to remain inside the sinking aircraft, surrounded by freezing water, darkness and floating luggage before making one final swim through the Hudson River. When Day Shift ends, Night Shift takes us inside a haunted hotel where the smell of chicken noodle soup signals the arrival of a long-dead construction worker, and into a locked hospital call room where the lights go out one by one before an impossible discovery is made the following morning. Finally, one man takes us…

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