One night, I took some big clients to a high-end strip club for "bonding" and closed a deal. The bill was huge, but I put it on the company card like usual. A couple of weeks later, finance flagged the expense due to the "interesting" descriptions on the receipt. They weren't buying my client relations excuse, and I got fired.
But here's the twist—I knew some senior execs had their own shady expenses: coke and escorts. I hinted to HR that I could go out and say something about that if needed. A week later, I was back at my desk, and the strip club incident never came up again.