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Technically, this isn't an at work story, but happened due to my work. It was late spring, 1983 and I returned from vacation to find that I had to attend an emergency 2 week company school in Dallas the next Monday. We normally stayed at some apartments across the street from the training center, but they were all booked. Since it was an emergency session, the company put us up in a brand new Double Tree about a mile away. About Wednesday, we started noticing people in the hotel bar that looked vaguely familiar. The next morning I just happened to meet a lady and she was a major cast member for the original Dallas TV series. They were all staying at the same hotel while doing location shooting for the 83-84 season.
That evening she joined me and some members of my class for drinks in the bar. Good times were had by all so she flagged down a production person that asked what we were doing over the weekend. Not having any specific plans, we all said nothing, so she asked if we'd like to be extras in some scenes for be filmed at Southfork. They'd pay us $25 a day and we could eat the food and enjoy the "refreshments" afterwards. All we had to do was to show up for the bus ride out and back and have a different outfit for each day. Totally in.
We filmed most of the day on Saturday, ate and "refreshed" afterwards with the cast and crew. Sunday we filmed until about 2 and "refreshed" with all the cast and crew until about 8. All the cast, even the major players, were fun folks and joined in just like everyone else. We were all handed a $50 check (minus taxes, of course) and we all got to keep our cowboy hats. Such a deal.
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