re: ever witness a real life Epic Melt on the work place?

Not a crazy/yelling melt, but we had a guy that lost a really close family member and then went missing for 2 weeks. Police were called, they searched for him and everything. He just randomly showed up back at his house and came to work the next day like nothing happened. Two days later, he called in sick and no one heard from him for another week. HR finally got ahold of him and went to his house to find it in total shambles. He showed up to work a couple days later in a fish net shirt to grab a couple things out of his office and that was it. He left all sorts of personal stuff.

Turned out he was a closet gay and his uncle that died was a gay guy that was kind of shunned by his family. There were some rumors that the uncle abused him as a kid, but that was probably just gossip. Anyways, it turns out the dude inherited a good chunk of money from his dead uncle and said, "frick it, I'm going to live however the hell I want." Now he's off the grid and supposedly hiking the Rocky Mountain trail or something with his partner.

I don't think anything got done around our office that whole month. It was just 8 hours a day of gossip.