‘Believe me, you’re better off’: Woman starts going to the gym during lunch. Then her position gets outsourced
A woman was outsourced from her company under suspicious circumstances. The reason she may think this is why? She left on her lunch break to go to the gym.
In a video with over 4,500 views, Whitney Lawrence (whit.moves) explained how her position in human resources had an “unspoken” rule for its employees: don’t leave the office, or you may get canned.
Worker uses lunch break to visit gym
Lawrence said one of the strangest experiences leading up to her position being outsourced involved her decision to start leaving the office for lunch. For the year and a half or two years she had worked there, she never stepped out.
“I had always worked through my lunch, never left,” she said. Over time, though, the work environment began to feel increasingly hostile. She sensed that her termination might be coming, so she decided to take a small step for herself and leave to go to the gym during her lunch break, figuring she might get fired anyway.
“One of the craziest things that happened before my position got outsourced was about a month ago,” Lawrence said. “I decided I’m going to start taking my lunch and leaving [to] go to the gym. Everybody else seems to leave on their lunch. Why can’t I?”
The ‘unspoken rule’
She noted that there seemed to be an unspoken rule specifically targeting HR employees. “I have always felt like there was this unspoken rule of like, ‘HR isn’t allowed to leave,’ so I just never did,” she added. She also felt the weight of her boss’s disapproval. “I felt like my boss frowned upon it.”
When she was eventually outsourced, she wasn’t necessarily surprised. However, the interaction she had with the company owner’s wife left her stunned.
“She asked me, ‘Oh where are you going?’ Mind you, I don’t even know what this lady does for the company, but she’s there everyday looking over everyone’s shoulder,” she said. “I said, ‘Oh I’m going to the gym.’ She’s like, ‘Oh you’re going to the gym on your lunch?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’
The woman proceeded to snarkily reply, “‘OK well, I hope you’re not planning on eating when you come back since you’re spending your lunch [there].’”
Sometime after that interaction, Lawrence got outsourced and let go.
Commenters dig into the company
Many TikTok users thought that the interaction was unnecessarily hostile, especially given the fact that Lawrence could technically do whatever she needed with her lunch hour.
One wrote, “The unspoken rules and vibes shifts that take place in an office needs to be studied.”
Another added, “I foam at the mouth, thinking of these situations, hoping they would happen to me. That lady would have learned that day, why she should myob.”
Another person referenced the company that Lawrence supposedly worked for, but didn’t mention what that company is. They said, “I used to work at the same company you did. They put up such a front that it was a big family. Biggest sack of lies.”
@whit.moves This interaction is engraved in my brain ? #lunchbreak #work #fyp #wtf ♬ original sound – whit
The Mary Sue has reached out to Lawrence via email and Lawrence’s former workplace for comment.
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