Guys like this should wear a warning !!!!!

A colleague of mine had taken 2 days leave 2 weeks ago for personal reasons. She didn't reveal why so we leave it as it is. This week she did it again ,another day of sudden leave. My Boss ask me to check if everything is OK, as she seem pretty tense when she was in the office. He has reasons to be concern as we are all dealing with big clients.

Asking people about personal things fall into the 'tacky' category. It's infringing on people's privacy. Something is obviously wrong, we just need to give her time to work out what ever she's going through. Maybe a parent is ill? Anyway yesterday when she was at work, I bump into her in the toilet. Her eyes were red, as if she had been crying. I pretend I didn't see so as not to embarrass her.

After work I followed her out of the building, wanting to talk to her. I saw her boy friend waiting for her. I've seen him before at other functions. When he saw me approaching, he stared at me. A firing squad would've been friendlier. Boy... it's clear now- relationship problem. Well I signal for her to call me & move off.

She texted me later & told me, they are breaking off. He had taken all the money from their joint

account ( total almost $ 70,000-) invested it & lost it all completely. Her family was so mad as most of it was her savings. They suspected he had gambled it away. He denied it & now he wanted to break it off since "no one believed him & blame him". Wow... that's a 'good excuse!" She is totally at a lost what to do. Mad with him for being so irresponsible and not apologetic at all. Her family insisting she should dump him as they were furious. He want to break it off, as he is furious as well.

I feel terrible for her. Tell her to take her time to deal with this mess. We will be there if she needs anything. I know it's lame, but what else could I say?