My wife pretended to be me and did my work while I was sick
We’re both software engineers working from home which is why this was even possible to pull off in the first place.
I’m a full stack developer while she’s a front-end developer but she pretty much has all the knowledge she needs to do the same work as I do. She would sometimes sit with me while I would work and help me debug lines and lines of code(which I appreciate a lot and I do the same in return when I can), but today she really surprised me.
So, I caught a nasty cold last night and I didn’t take mc today because my team and I have a lot of pressure from our boss to complete our current project as soon as possible. I told my wife this and she told me to just focus on getting better and she’d “handle the rest.”
I should mention that her job doesn’t require her to work at any particular time, she’s just given a task or two to complete and since she’s efficient, she’d finish within a couple of hours and be free for the rest of the day. Today, she was free all morning so she locked herself in my office and started doing my work. She made an excuse in my team’s group chat pretending to be me saying I lost my voice so I can’t hop on a voice call and they fell for it.
She made me breakfast and told me I couldn’t come into the office for the rest of the work day so here I am lounging on my sofa with a wet cloth on my forehead, a box of tissues next to me and the biggest smile on my face.