Your email mentioned someone who took off from work to see a movie. That happened in our office too. One of our new hires — there was this huge — I think it was an annual ev- — an annual sale, or big blowout sale. And this new hire, she loves to shop. I mean, she’s, yeah she’s one of those people who just loves to shop. So she called in sick, and she went to that huge sale at Ala Moana shopping center, A L A, next word, M O A N A. You might have heard of it. It’s the famous shopping center in Honolulu, Hawaii, near — right off, right off of Waikīkī. Right by Waikīkī.
But, the news cameras all went to the sale to interview people and to report on the shopping and show people shopping in the frenzy of this massive sale that was across the entire shopping center. And guess who one of those people was that they were showing on the TV. It was our, our staff member who had called in sick. So we saw her on TV in the midst of that big shopping thing. I mean, she could’ve just said, “I’m gonna take the day off from work so I can go to that big sale.” And we would have let her, except she wouldn’t have gotten paid because she had sick leave benefits but she didn’t have — I mean, none of us have the, the personal time benefits. She didn’t — personal time off benefits, so if she had just told us she was going shopping, she wouldn’t have been paid for that day. So that’s why she called in sick. And there she was on TV with the reporters standing there, showing everybody shopping. She was there. We saw her on camera. And it wasn’t just that one TV. We, we flipped the switches. All three of the news stations caught her. Um, she must have been at the really popular part where — if all three of the news stations were at that particular point at sometime or sometime during the day. But um, you know, she got — I mean to be caught like that on TV, when you said you were sick — when you called in sick, so you could get paid for — on the day that you were going shopping! Instead of being honest, and not being paid for taking the day off to go shopping. Um, I dunno. I dunno about that, that person.