Ask for a day off for radiation treatment because you were diagnosed with terminal cancer. Normally you would plan this outside business hours but you also need to get a second mortgage to be able to pay for treatment as insurance won’t cover it.
Oh and talk about it out in the open with coworkers before they ask you in their office for ‘the’ conversation.
Do the castanza thing, don’t show up. Day after just goto work and act like nothing happened.
My dad just got diagnosed with cancer, I just bought a house, I was at a conference in San Francisco and my boss cornered me before the flight home saying i was being laid off. They literally don’t care.
While simple, it can honestly be kind of fun to just go in and let them know. When I was recently laid off, it went something like this.
HR: “I know this might be a shock–”
Me: “Yeah, you’re letting me go, I know. Here’s my work laptop and badge, I’ve got all my stuff in a box outside, what do I sign? Trying to catch the next train home, so I have like 20 minutes.”
It totally threw off my boss and the HR lady trying to do their sombre, dignified thing, and was pretty funny to watch.
Oh a gift to the boss for allowing you to have this opportunity would be the cherry on top.
