Employee drives 2 hours into office to find that nobody else is there, coworkers didn't tell them not to come in: 'Even the newer staff knew not to come in, but nobody is answering'

Nobody likes to feel like everyone is hanging out without them, even at work.

It's a tough thing to realize that you're on the outskirts of a group. Maybe this happened to you when you were in school, and you felt left out of the group. It's happened to everyone at some point, and it's a crushing feeling. When you find out that you're not in the group chat, not invited to the party, or generally being excluded from something. It can make us feel like that rejected little kid again, and not in a good way. It triggers our old fears of feeling like an outcast.

Luckily, this tends to happen less and less as you get older. You find out who your people are, and you get good at identifying them. You don't worry about the parties that you're not invited to because you don't want to be there. You'd rather be exactly where you are, with your friends and with your interests. You realize that you're not everyone's cup of tea, and everyone is not yours. This is a beautiful part of growing up. We get more self-assured and more okay with ourselves. But sometimes something will just come up out of the blue and make you remember how you felt all those years ago. It can even happen to us at work, which is sort of the last place you'd expect it to. That's what happened in this story, where one employee learned the hard way that he was being left out.

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But even weirder than being left out of social plans, they were being left out of work. This might sound like a lucky break… You don't have to do your usual tasks, but they weren't sure if it would spell more trouble for his career. After making the long haul into his job, he realized that nobody else showed up. We are in the weird in-between Christmas and New Year's time, so that could explain it, but he wasn't ready to rest on his laurels. Read on to see what happened in this story and see what commenters had to say.
2hr commute, I am the only person from my entire office at the office, no indication it was closed or remote today.

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Commenters wondered if there might be more going on here.

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