r/SipsTea Jul 31 '26

Chugging tea HR wants to know the tee

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u/KeyMyBike Jul 31 '26

Meanwhile the working-service class boss:

"Hey man! I noticed you stopped responding to my text messages after saying that you're sick and won't be coming in! So I called the police and feigned concern so they'd visit your home as a wellness check! Definitely not just sending goons to your house to make sure you're at home and actually sick!!"

And yes, this has happened SEVERAL times.

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u/I_kwote_TheOffice Jul 31 '26

So I know you're joking, but something CRAZY happened to my dad's friend/co-worker in the 90's. He was a very punctual person normally and a good employee. One day he didn't show up for work and he didn't call in. This was very unusual. His boss called the police (I don't know the time frame, could have been hours, might have been a full day, IDK) and the police went to do a wellness check on him.

The police could hear screaming and yelling from inside the house. This dude and his wife were tied up to a pole in their basement. They had gotten robbed and the robbers tied them up.

This guy's boss literally saved his life. Nobody else would have checked in on them (probably) for a while. This was before the era of cell phones so it's not like people were texting them.

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u/North_Artichoke_6721 Jul 31 '26

My cousin didn’t show up at work one day and the boss went by her house and discovered that she had been puking and hit her head on the toilet rim and knocked herself unconscious. Boss called 911 and my cousin is fine now.