Let’s be honest, any of us who have worked in the restaurant industry (raise your hand if that’s you, too), wouldn’t have lasted five minutes before telling this coworker off. Perhaps the woman in this story is far nicer than me, but if someone in my workplace is repeatedly expecting me to cover for them, draining dining room niceties on double the customers, you better believe I would have said something immediately.
If you need a hiatus from work, you need a hiatus from work, not a coworker who will walk 14,000 steps a day to make sure your job gets done in your absence. It’s time for them to man up, so to speak, and pull their own weight around the workplace.




