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what to do after you've made up a fake child to get out of work

Summary by Ask a Manager
A reader writes: I listen to a gaming podcast where one of the hosts regularly shares stories of his family — wife, toddler, and a dog with a partial disability. Listeners have been torn apart by a subreddit post asking for help: a person claims that they’ve been repurposing the host’s stories at the office, as part of an elaborate ruse where they’ve been pretending to have a child in order to get out of work occasionally. Apparently, they’re ge…
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Ask a Manager broke the news in on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
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