So H calls at 10:30 & I am NOT going to answer. He sounds anxious. I call him and he is on his way home. Boss told him he doesn't seem to have his head in the game, should "Take a couple weeks off and come back when you are focused and ready to work". H freaks out. Tells boss he will NOT take a few weeks off, work is what keeps him together. Says he would like to take the afternoon off (didn't tell boss it was bc of moving to apt), and be back tomorrow. Boss says fine. At 11 am boss sends him e-mail, "Get the f--k out of here"; that is just his boss' way of saying Go Home, boss is QUITE a character, I have said before I think he is bipolar. Anyway H goes into boss' office, says I am leaving this afternoon. Boss says if you need to go get your head right just go now. So H comes home. Asks me to look up furniture co. #. Finds it himself. This whole time I am on the computer in basement entering checks in Quicken while kids at school (no subbing today is MLK day). I didn't get up from chair the whole time he was here, normally I would have followed him around the house. I asked what he found out on phone when he came downstairs. He said he stopped the furniture order. I said good if you wanted to do that. Didn't ask about apt. bc he could live there on an air mattress w/a card table if he wanted to and I am staying OUT OF IT! So I say, "Let me know if there is anything I can do", and he says thanks, he is going back to talk to boss. Then he left. So all I know is he thinks he may be fired and he is not buying furniture. Don't know if this is the rock-bottom he needs to get better or another excuse to let his life go down the drain....
But I am proud that I never got up from my chair or tried to "fix" his situation for him. I think hands-off is the best approach.
