There’s no grand story to this one… Actually I’m still not entirely sure why I did it. I’ve worked with this guy who we’ll call Sean for a little while. He’s nineteen, tall and lanky with medium length brown hair that’s normally a bit of a curly mess. Sean’s one of the sweetest people I know. The kind of person who insists upon releasing bugs outside, and who literally gets a joke of the day email. He’s absolutely adorable and until just before Christmas, I’d have told you that my feelings toward him were entirely brotherly.
Sean had a massive fight with his girlfriend, and they ended up breaking up. He came in to work really too upset to function, and I ended up sitting with him in the break room while he vented a little bit. It seemed like a pretty standard “They were in different stages mentally” breakup, but it was his first so I understood why he was so shaken up. He went back to work once we had chatted for a while, but it felt like there was a dark cloud hanging over the store to me because he’s normally so bright and happy.