David Brent 📚📖

Don't be that guy.

We're getting ready to go to a holiday party at a friend's house. It starts in about 90 minutes. One of the guests texts the group letting us know that his daughter just tested positive for #COVID, and if we don't want him to come to the party, he would understand.

Here's the thing: he is very aware nobody is going to be the one to tell him, "Nah, I'm not comfortable with you showing up when you have #coronavirus wandering through your house."

Don't be that guy.

Dec 11, 2022 at 12:07amWeb
Show threadEllenInEdmonton Dec 11, 2022
@dbsalk
Well, from where I sit, if you got that message, and you're unwilling to tell him, then YOU are that guy!
Sorry, this takes a team effort and if he's too dense to know any better than to come to a party contagious, then somebody else has got to help him to make the right call.
Show threadDavid Brent 📚📖Dec 11, 2022

@EllenInEdmonton Agree that I'm absolutely part of the problem, or at the very least an enabler. I don't know this person too well, but that's not a good excuse.

The situation resolved itself: he took himself out of the equation and is staying home. I'm just annoyed he even asked the question in the first place.

Show threadEllenInEdmonton Dec 11, 2022
@dbsalk
I hear you. At the same time, many of us take some time to come to the right decision in a situation like this. We tend not to believe the bad news right away. Glad that he came around to make the right call and it's too bad that he put the rest of you on the spot.
Show threadmyownpetard blue checkmarkDec 11, 2022
@dbsalk i would tell him. gimme his number.
Show threadBroGleDec 11, 2022
@dbsalk I would tell him “if you are coming, then I am not. My health is important to me”
Show threadKat Dec 11, 2022
@dbsalk everyone should be comfortable telling him, that's what friends do, be straight forward. Why even be friends with people you can only have small talk with ?
Show threadDavid Brent 📚📖Dec 11, 2022

@meowlygrowly Generally, that's good advice. He's not my friend though. I barely know him.

The situation resolved itself.

Show threadKat Dec 11, 2022
@dbsalk I just mean for anyone who knows him, whoever invited him etc. Someone should know him well enough to tell him
Show threadDavid Brent 📚📖Dec 11, 2022
@meowlygrowly Agreed. No one in the group wanted to be the one to do it.