In your work or school environment, what outrageous requests have you heard?

I’m specifically excluding family and friends, especially parents and children, who are apt to make requests routinely that we might consider outrageous. Those go with the territory and probably don’t warrant any special attention.

Instead I’m asking about requests you have heard in a professional or quasi-business setting, such as a customer or patient or student who made some extraordinary demand.

Do you have any theory about why those folks felt entitled to ask for such a thing?