{"id":54940,"date":"2025-03-12T22:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54940"},"modified":"2025-03-12T22:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:40:59","slug":"my-colleague-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54940","title":{"rendered":"My Colleague Asked\u00a0>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"552\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-608.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-608.png 552w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-608-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had admired Daniel for years, so when he invited me to dinner, I eagerly accepted. But at the restaurant, he never showed. Instead, a waiter handed me a note instructing me to meet him in the bathroom. Suspicious but hopeful, I went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside, Daniel stood with two coworkers, one filming as they laughed. &#8220;Bet\u2019s over\u2014I did it,&#8221; he said, ignoring me. Humiliation burned through me as I realized I was a joke. I left, dignity intact but shattered inside. The next morning, I discovered he had taken his cruelty even further, changing everything I believed about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My phone buzzed nonstop as I brushed my teeth. When I checked, my heart sank\u2014Daniel had shared a video of me entering the bathroom with the caption: &#8220;Didn&#8217;t take much convincing\ud83d\ude0f.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As if humiliating me wasn\u2019t enough, he made me look desperate. I called in sick, unable to face anyone. But on the third day, my phone rang\u2014Mr. Reynolds, the company owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Cindy, be in my office within the hour. Or clean out your desk.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54808\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had admired Daniel for years, so when he invited me to dinner, I eagerly accepted. But at the restaurant, he never showed. Instead, a waiter handed&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54942,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54940\/revisions\/54942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}