The 4:45pm Friday call out

She called out because she has anxiety? Honestly, I was confused. This was new to me. Twenty years ago, the only acceptable reason to call out was if you physically couldn't move. I'd built my whole career on that standard. I put myself last and called it work ethic. (I'm not saying that's healthy, by the way.) So my first instinct was to push back. My second instinct — the one I'd trained myself to actually use — was to ask a different question. Not "is this real?" I asked, When did she tell...