After months of exhausting 12-hour shifts, I finally got the vacation I desperately needed. A week of peace by the beach—no emails, no deadlines, just rest. But on my second day, my phone buzzed with a bizarre demand from my boss: “Share your live location. I need to make sure you’re actually on holiday.”
At first, I laughed, thinking it was a joke. But then came more texts, calls, and threats. She warned that if I didn’t comply, she’d mark my leave as unauthorized. My stomach dropped. She had approved this leave herself—why was she acting like this?
I pushed back, reminding her I owed her nothing while on approved leave. That’s when things took a strange turn. A coworker messaged me privately: “Hey, are you staying at the resort? Just saw your post.”
It all clicked. My boss wasn’t trying to monitor me—she was trying to protect herself. She was secretly at the same resort with a married colleague. She panicked when she realized I might spot her and demanded my location to avoid crossing paths.
When I returned, she had vanished from work, “on leave” indefinitely. The woman who tried to police my vacation was caught red-handed, and her obsession with control exposed her own secret.
