I (28F) have been working in the same salon for over three years and am a hair dresser at this salon, my friend Kate (21F) is a nail tech at the same salon . I would always make these dumb but funny jokes about being Kates second mom and considering I’m older than she is I’ve been working there longer than her and she is barely an adult and she is still lives under her parents house but I still made those jokes about her. Honestly though, Kate is still pretty much a baby. But lately Kate has been showing up late to work and been showing less concern about everything around her including work so called and advice her to focus more on her work and should not mix work with pleasure, now she has been suspended and she doesn’t want her parents to know about this and asked me to talk to the management but I said no because I wanted her to learn from her mistakes.
NTA. She is an adult and if she wants to keep her job, she needs to turn up and do a good job. This is her life and she can’t have someone coming in on her behalf asking for some grace because she put herself in this situation.
Thank you, I needed this .
NTA. She needs to understand (but probably won’t) that vouching for her good behavior puts your integrity ont he line, and in this case there seems to be no reason to think she will in fact behave well. She needs to go on her knees to the manager and beg for a second chance. That’s not your job.