Ask a Manager: My boss saw me guzzling chocolate in my car

[colorwheel]

LW: After a particularly long day, I stopped at the convenience shop by work and got myself a well deserved candy bar. While waiting to merge back into traffic, I proceeded to shove it in my mouth, barely avoiding eating the wrapper. To my horror, my boss was the car waving me into the lane and witnessed me unhinge my jaw like a snake in order to get as much chocolate in my mouth as quickly as possible.

My question is, can I take FMLA due to dying of embarrassment or should I just email my resignation right now?


Alison: Just ghost the job entirely and let her think what she witnessed was part of your jubilance on your bacchanalian flight to freedom.

Comments

[ayebydan]

Fair enough. I think she's a great writer and always hands out solid advice that anyone can use in many situations. Seemed a shame to be to lose even a bit of that to this sort of thing. Each to their own.

[colorwheel]

everyone's mileage many vary, of course, but personally i did find her funny response useful for many situations. it's a reminder to me to keep an eye on whether something i did that feels horrifying at that moment is red light (actually bad, requires action), yellow light (might require action but isn't as bad as i think it is), or green light (requires no action and is only bad inside my brain).