SICK WORKER WOKE TO FIND HER BOSS STANDING AT HER BED
A restaurant worker who called in sick with a stomach bug woke up to find her boss in her bedroom, waving at her from the foot of the bed, she said. The TikToker, Mish (@mishyymbabyy), said he had already approved her day off and walked into her house anyway to offer her a ride to work.
Mish told the story in a TikTok video that was spreading online by March 5, 2024, when LADbible and the Daily Dot both covered it. LADbible put the views at more than 6.7 million.
She said she worked at a restaurant about 15 minutes from her home. “I had a stomach bug and I decided to call out of work that day,” she said.
She did it by the book. “I called up my boss, I talked to him in person. He says, okay, whatever, that’s fine,” she said.
Mish said she shared a house with a roommate, whose bedroom was downstairs while hers was upstairs. She told him she was sick and went back to bed. Bored Panda reported that he then went out back to smoke, play guitar and sing in the grass so she could sleep.
She believed he left the door unlocked because he was right outside. Then her boss pulled into the driveway.
By Mish’s account, her boss claimed he did not hear anyone pull in. He told her he knocked, got no answer, tried the unlocked doorknob and pushed the door open. He said he called her name a few times, saw and heard nothing, and went upstairs.
“That’s when I woke up and he’s standing at the foot of my bed kind of waving at me,” Mish said. “I literally thought I was having a fever dream.”
She said he had a pitch ready. He told her, in her telling, that he knew she had called out, “but maybe you just don’t want to drive and I’ll drive you in and then you could still work.”
Mish said that was where it ended. “This is not okay, you need to get out of my room. I’m not coming into work,” she said she told him. He left.
Her roommate saw the boss on his way out and waved. He did not think much of it and figured Mish had invited him over, she said. She had not.
A layoff a few weeks later
Mish said her boss laid her off a few weeks afterward. Bored Panda reported that she tied it to her ex-boyfriend, who she said went “really crazy” after the breakup, harassed her and called the restaurant. The Daily Dot put more weight on that harassment.
She said that on the day she lost her job, her ex allegedly egged the restaurant building, expecting her to have to scrub it clean. Her boss, she said, believed she had done it herself. “Why would I egg the building that I’m going to have to go out in the hot sun and scrub?” she said she wondered.
The Daily Dot also reported that a follow-up video showed Mish’s hands trembling and carried an anxiety hashtag.
Commenters were firmly on her side. “If you didn’t invite him into your home, that’s basically a crime. He had no right to be in your bedroom,” one told her, according to LADbible. Another wrote, “The way I would have SUEDDDDDD.”
Bored Panda reported that many urged her to sue or call the police. Mish said she did not call police and wished she had, though she doubted they could have done much.
Her account has not drawn a response from her boss in any of the coverage, and no charges or legal action were reported.
The clip found new life in October 2026, when IGV republished the tale on October 16, 2026. It repeated Mish’s claim that she lost her job several weeks after the incident amid issues involving her ex-partner.
