auntie it’s 5pm est, any word?
It’s 4 pm here, and no word, but I don’t expect much at this point, because it’s more or less out of our hands now. The detective has taken over, and my boss has simply been supplying him with as much information as possible.
One thing I will say, in response to those of you who have wondered about the status of the coworker’s job if she does turn up OK, is that because our Board of Directors is involved now (not just the cop, but the Board President has also been apprised of this situation), my boss’s hand may be forced a little. He’ll now be answering to a higher authority than the usual peons (i.e., the rest of us here in the office), and may not be able to let her off scot-free this time.
At any rate, be assured that I won’t leave you hangin’ when I find out something . . .
No news is NOT good news
as crappy as things are going for me right now I really hope things are working out for your coworker. Hopefully she’s fine and getting reprmanded/fired might be just the thing she need to get her life worked out
I live in Lousiana, where there’s been a serial killer at work in the Baton Rouge area (until a recent arrest, hopefully of the right man).
A couple months ago, a college student vanished without a trace. No word to family, friends, no signs of anything in her apartment, etc. It was all over the media for the whole state.
Several days later she comes waltzing back home. She was off with the boyfriend who nobody knew she was still seeing.
Man, if I were her family, I would have called up the serial killer and told him he could have her!
Keep us posted, auntie em, this one is getting spooky!!!
Ye gods. This is scary. I hope she’s okay and that the worst thing that happens to her is she gets the boot.
Years ago, I had a coworker who’d vanish like this, but she got sacked pretty quickly. One time Nutcase Girl told the boss that she’d been kidnapped and drugged by satanists who’d used her naked body as an altar.
…I think I dated her…
Don’t you hate when that happens?
I do. People just don’t realize how difficult it is getting a girl all drugged and nekkid proper enough for a good sacrifice.
And then she gets away.
Lucifer’s gonna give me boils like you will never, EVAH understand.
just when you thought that an argument about crayon colors was a strange hijack. . .
Mr Goo had a coworker who didn’t show up for four months. Nobody knew any of her friends or parents and she wasn’t at her house. After a month, the company but her on suspension, in her absence. Three months after that she shows up one day ready for work. I can’t believe the nerve of some people, expecting to still have a job.
She was fired.
Apparently she spent the missing four months in jail.
For helping a friend move house. :dubious:
The rumour was that it wasn’t her friends house or property she was ‘helping’ move.
Why she never asked anyone to contact her workplace, I’ll never know, because it was a flaky enough place that they would’ve held a job open for her, had she notified them.
Can’t wait to hear the next update on missing coworker, from Auntie Em.
Man, I must be carrying a hijack-magnet this week.
And,… uh,… Skip, not sure what you do with your spare time,… but I just meant that I dated someone who would come up with such outlandish stories…
But… ah… Good to hear you’re tight with the Dark Prince!
<Lisa Simpson nervous laugh> Heh, heh. </Lisa Simpson>
Alert! Alert! Only two hours until AuntiEm gets to work! All hands on thread! All hands on thread!
The suspense is KILLING me.
I can’t even pretend to be working.
Is it possible auntie em that she was blown away in a tornado (with her little dog too)?
7:53 a.m. on Tuesday, June 17, and still nothing. Granted, she’s not due in for seven more minutes, but at this point we’re hardly holding our breath.
My boss remembered this morning that the last time we saw her (a week ago yesterday), she was supposed to have had a Doctor appointment. He’s going to call the detective who can maybe find out if she showed up for that.
As of now we’ve decided that when people call here on her line and we can’t help them (most of the time she’s the only person who can really help them–other times, someone else could, but they insist on speaking with her), we’re just going to be honest, and tell them she’s missing.
That’s it for now . . .
I know if she did just go on a quicky vacation, friend or not, I’d never speak to her again, should she actually show back up. Since she’s pulled similar stunts in the past, this last shrieking of wolves would really do it for me. I’m kind of worried too, but there’s a little nagging feeling saying not to. Hope that little feeling is correct.
You sure you don’t work with my sister? This sounds like something she’d do. Then when she finally decided to show back up, wonder why everybody was so mad and upset and worried. :rolleyes:
Q: What if she really was kidnapped? Perhaps she should have been fired a million times before this, but if its against her will…
Trying not to think of the heavy girl with the little dog down the well arguing with Buffalo Bill before Clarice rings the bell.
Guys, though I honestly hope she’s OK…
This is better than “Days of Our Lives”! If the cow-orker just shows up la-di-da, all hell will break loose on her head. If she doesn’t show up, where is she? Is she OK? Did she run away and join the circus?
I’m supposed to be doing a lot of things here, but instead I keep checking this thread for updates. Oh the shame… The Shame!:o
Waaaaay back on page one of this thread, someone asked if she had a mental illness. I have to chime in and agree that if this is a case of gross irresponsibility, it hints towards a bipolar manic phase – espically given she has a history of such disappearances and preposterous excuses.
So even if she has just “spontaneoulsy” run off on an adventurous holiday – either way she could be in trouble. There is “irresponsible” and there is “Irresponsible.”
The average, healthy person – even an irresponsible one – would have checked in with an excuse by now (or at the very least to get a feel for how much trouble she’s in).
I’m worried that
a) she could be abducted
b) injured somewhere where people can’t find her or identify her
c) in the midst of some kind of mental illness phase
No scenario is a good one right now.
Sounds like a sister-in-law of mine - she’s lied so often, with ever-changing stories, that when she claimed last week that her ex-boyfriend had broken into her apartment, beat her up, and she’d had him arrested, we all rolled our eyes, and her parents said they’d have to see the arrest paperwork copies and broken lock for themselves. They went over yesterday - and sure enough, it had actually happened.
(Rather than bitch in the Pit about it, I’m putting the tale in my LJ right now. It’s waaaay too long and rambling to make a good Pit thread.)
At this point, I can’t imagine that even SHE would come breezing in like nothing has happened. Granted, she has no idea that we’ve changed the locks and called the cops and all, but I’m starting to get the opposite feeling from Sylkin. I can’t imagine any way that this could end without major trauma.
The only other tidbits I have today:
a) Yesterday, the detective asked for her SS# and my boss, not having a clue where anything is filed around here, asked if I knew where to find it (our Office Manager was out for the day). I got her personnel file from the OM’s office . . .
. . . and OK, I snooped. Not very much, due to guilt and limited opportunity, but I snooped.
Dude, forget the disappearances–she should have been fired for a whole slew of reasons before this! The thing was chock full of letters of complaint from clients and other people with whom she has worked (outside of this office), she’d been written up for harrassing a coworker (long before I started working here, someone I don’t even know), and her performance evaluations were abysmal.
b) She had a friend who used to come by and visit here at least twice a week, an old guy who empties the parking meters out front. We always assumed it was a strictly “business” relationship–in other words, that sure, he dropped by our office to say hello to her when he happened to be on the job in this area, but we didn’t think they saw each other outside of either of their workdays.
Well, my boss said that the last time he saw Meter Guy (when my coworker was out of town at a conference), Meter Guy mentioned that he’d be picking her up from the airport when she returned. Not a HUGE deal, but the airport is over an hour away from here, so it’s not usually a favor you ask of a casual acquaintance.
In addition, we’ve noticed Meter Guy’s conspicuous absence since my coworker has been gone! Like I said, he’s an old guy (and seems very nice), so we don’t suspect him of anything, but wonder if he knows something we don’t, like that there was no point in stopping by here to visit her anymore . . .
I think we’ve all been watching too much Law & Order!