'Don't come back': Opportunistic employee goes home early when a scheduled fire drill makes management second-guess their instructional wording

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  • They said if you leave during the fire drill, don't come back, so i went home for the day
  • We had a fire drill at work last week. Before it started, the announcement came over the PA: "If you leave the property during the drill, don't bother coming back" it was 2:00 in the afternoon. my box was quiet,
  • meetings were done, and my car was parked two blocks away. So when the alarm went off and we all filed outside, I just kept walking. went straight to my car and drove home. Next day, my
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  • manager asked why I left. I said, "They told us not to come back if we left" he blinked for a second, then said nothing. I was just following instructions, and enjoying an early end to my Tuesday.
  • notclientfacing "The plant called, they said if you don't come in tomorrow don't bother coming back on Monday" "Woohoo! Four day weekend!"
  • LindonLilBlueBalls This is like my company saying we could leave straight from the Christmas party and didn't need to come back to the office. So I went, ate some food, and left within an hour of getting there.
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  • Come Monday so many people asked where I was for the remaining 3 hours of the party. Like, why would I hang out with them on a Friday afternoon when I could beat traffic and get home to my family?
  • spacebuggles ⚫ I would have interpreted "don't bother coming back" as "if you do this, you're fired".
  • KrisClem77. Gotta be careful here. You manager could have easily said, "yeah I heard that, so why did you come back today?"
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  • LLD615. My company had a fire drill one day 30 minutes before the end of the day. We were stuck outside past the close of business. The next week there was another one so I brought all my stuff. The head of the company saw me and laughed and said "you're smart, have a good night!"
  • moeichi ⚫ At my old company that required us to do timesheets, one time we had a fire alarm go off and everyone had to wait around outside for over an hour. So I ended up putting it on my timesheet as part of the workday haha.

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