Chronically unreliable coworker calls her colleague mid‑vacation, demanding a ride home from work, and gets blocked immediately: ‘She wanted my sister to drop everything, drive all the way to work, pick her up, and take her home!’

As if we don’t have enough microaggressions to deal with at work, by the looks of what’s going on online lately, I certainly feel like Vacation envy has become its own little workplace outbreak. 

Some people treat another person’s time off like a personal betrayal, as if the office air supply drops by half the moment someone else steps out. The coworker in this story built her whole personality around that logic. Every responsibility she dodged turned into someone else’s emergency. There’s always a reason she can’t stay, can’t show up, can’t manage the adult part of employment.