No, I Won’t Get Back to You as Soon as Possible

5 polite office lies we should all stop telling

Rachel Yerks
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5 min readJun 16, 2021

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A woman is concentrating on a laptop screen. She looks peeved. She is in a large, open office space surrounded by monitors.
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During my final year of university, I had a lovely boss who claimed she routinely went to work years ago while battling malaria. Imagine trying to get a guilt-free sick day working under someone like that. I don’t blame her for being a part of the “I suffered so you must suffer” work generation. In fact…

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