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I was fresh out of college before finding my first job. A friend worked at a company that sets up large fancy decorations for all sorts of events and helped me get some overflow work. I was brought on as a freelancer for a 30 hour shift on a new year's block party where we started that morning by making multiple trips to and from the site to bring our gear.
The first 12 hours went fine as we went to three different sites around the block but one of my new coworkers was a bit unstable to say the least. I must've rubbed him the wrong way because as we were sitting around eating dinner among some tables set up during the celebrations I mentioned I was so tired I couldn't taste the food. Somehow that triggered the guy and he got up directly from me, shoved me off my chair, and just said "I don't like you" then casually walked off. Mind you, this all happened in a large crowd so it caused a hell of a scene. My buddy and I were just left dumbstruck while a security guard came by and demanded to know who we were working with to report on the guy. We didn't want to get into trouble so we just made up some info and got the hell out of there ASAP.
The last few hours were tense as my assailant and I avoided each other while we started tearing down the decorations an hour after the countdown. My boss saw some blood on my hand where I fell and I had to make up a story that I just scratched it against a post somewhere. I never went back to work at that company again. I later heard from my friend that the same guy ended up knocking down someone else at another job. I often wonder if he eventually got his ass kicked or end up in jail for assaulting the wrong guy.