May 12, 2026 • 4 mins
What would you do if you discovered a lie so big and so personal that it made your stomach turn? In this Dirty Little Secret, a listener shares a workplace situation that feels impossible to ignore. A coworker has been calling out frequently, showing up late, and leaving early, and management has been understanding because they believe she’s dealing with morning sickness. The truth?
She’s not pregnant at all. The coworker later admitted she lied because “no one questions a pregnant woman.” Now the caller is stuck wrestling with guilt, anger, and a major moral dilemma. Saying something could create chaos at work but staying quiet feels just as wrong. Billy the Kidd, Candice Lopez, and Producer Pooh react with shock and frustration, breaking down:
Memorable moments include:
Do you stay out of it… or speak up?
Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who loves messy workplace drama and tough moral questions.
She’s not pregnant at all. The coworker later admitted she lied because “no one questions a pregnant woman.” Now the caller is stuck wrestling with guilt, anger, and a major moral dilemma. Saying something could create chaos at work but staying quiet feels just as wrong. Billy the Kidd, Candice Lopez, and Producer Pooh react with shock and frustration, breaking down:
Memorable moments include:
- “There’s no clean way to end a fake pregnancy.”
- “That lie made me see her completely differently.”
- “This feels low… even if it’s not my business.”
Do you stay out of it… or speak up?
Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who loves messy workplace drama and tough moral questions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get it off your chest to promise you'll feel better.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome to the Dirty Little Secret mixed.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
One or two point nine. We got on thousand dollars
coming up next if you want it. Fat sacks of
cash all day on the forty, so make sure you listen.
If you want to win one thousand dollars, easy money
all day, All right now, Dirty Little Secret. If you've
got one, tell me all your secrets. Confess to us.
You'll feel better. It's like spring cleaning for your soul. Okay,
whatever it is to non judgment zone eight three three, seven,
(00:27):
eight seven, one oh two nine, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What's up? Oh man?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I feel bad even calling because technically this is not
my business, but it is bothering me so much I
cannot stop thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
What what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I have this coworker, and we're really friendly at work,
but she acts like we're best friends, which we are
absolutely not. And lately she's been like calling out of
work a ton, showing up late, leaving early, all that stuff.
Then one day I overheard my boss saying something about
how she's trying to like be understanding because my coworker
(01:02):
is dealing with morning sickness and I'm like, wait.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
What, Oh, she's pregnant. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well, later that day she like pulls me aside and
tells me and she's laughing that she's not actually pregnant.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
You guys, what, Oh come, she's not pregnant.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
She's not.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
She just told our boss that she was because she
needed an excuse for always being.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Late miss work.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I hate this so much.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I hate it too. She like she just like figured
nobody questions a pregnant woman's.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Right, man, what's gonna happen in nine months or you know,
seven months?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, I don't know, you know, however long. She's like,
obviously there's no good any.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Keep this going exactly. I was speechless.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I don't blame you. I would not like this either.
So I'm sick one thing, I had a death in
the family. People use that, but I'm pregnant. I know.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Gross that even more because like people have, you know,
struggle for years to have babies. They like women lose babies.
And she's just like using it as a fake sick
day path like it just it's so disgusting. It made
me look at her completely differently.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, I would too.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
This would make me look at somebody differently, I'd be like,
this is I'd almost have to say something, but like
you said, I know it's not technically your business, but
at the same.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Time, I just it's gross to lie about.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's so gross awful, and like you were saying, like
she hasn't thought it through, like how do you end
a fake pregnancy?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You know that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
She's unfortunately probably gonna say that fake the end of
the fake the end of it too, and you know
that's not going to be gross.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Okay, she'll probably take a couple of days off for
that too. That now that would enrage. Yeah, that would rage.
That's I don't even want to think about that. I
don't like that at all.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So I know. So, like my dilemma is like I
wanted part of me wants to tell my boss because
it's so gross, But then I'm like, do I really
want to get in.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I don't know, you that's a good question, like does
this something like I'm trying to think, like we have
to watch these videos sometimes of work, like if somebody's
doing something.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Right, compliance, would you, yeah, compliance, would you say something,
see something, say something? But in this.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Case, unless her like work is affecting the team, or
tanking the company, or like our goals together.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't know if you could say anything.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Technically she is stealing company time and money though, if
she's lying about But then again, how you do it?
I don't know if if she told you this, if
she just told you this, it could be just hearsay.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, if you're the only one she told, then she's
gonna know you're the one that ratted her out. I
don't know if I would say anything. I think this
kind of karma comes full circle on its own. Yeah, right,
I don't know. You know, if you tell her that
they got to get HR involved the whole big.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
No, that's who you would tell, is HR? I guess right, Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, I don't tell anything. I'd avoid a charre at
all costs. Even when I see him in the hallway,
I keep my head down.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Like they won't notice me.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, I think I might stay out of it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I don't know. Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry that you
got to deal with that. That is that is awful,
and I would yeah, I wouldn't. It feels ichy. I
wouldn't want to be around it at all.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But she'll get hers. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Some way, somehow this stuff comes around. I truly believe that.
And you know it won't be It won't be good
for her.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
No, it is not going to be good, not at all.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, let us know what happens.
Get it off your chest to promise you'll feel better.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome to the Dirty Little Secret mixed.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
One or two point nine. We got on thousand dollars
coming up next if you want it. Fat sacks of
cash all day on the forty, so make sure you listen.
If you want to win one thousand dollars, easy money
all day, All right now, Dirty Little Secret. If you've
got one, tell me all your secrets. Confess to us.
You'll feel better. It's like spring cleaning for your soul. Okay,
whatever it is to non judgment zone eight three three, seven,
(00:27):
eight seven, one oh two nine, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What's up? Oh man?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I feel bad even calling because technically this is not
my business, but it is bothering me so much I
cannot stop thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
What what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I have this coworker, and we're really friendly at work,
but she acts like we're best friends, which we are
absolutely not. And lately she's been like calling out of
work a ton, showing up late, leaving early, all that stuff.
Then one day I overheard my boss saying something about
how she's trying to like be understanding because my coworker
(01:02):
is dealing with morning sickness and I'm like, wait.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
What, Oh, she's pregnant. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well, later that day she like pulls me aside and
tells me and she's laughing that she's not actually pregnant.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
You guys, what, Oh come, she's not pregnant.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
She's not.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
She just told our boss that she was because she
needed an excuse for always being.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Late miss work.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I hate this so much.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I hate it too. She like she just like figured
nobody questions a pregnant woman's.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Right, man, what's gonna happen in nine months or you know,
seven months?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, I don't know, you know, however long. She's like,
obviously there's no good any.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Keep this going exactly. I was speechless.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I don't blame you. I would not like this either.
So I'm sick one thing, I had a death in
the family. People use that, but I'm pregnant. I know.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Gross that even more because like people have, you know,
struggle for years to have babies. They like women lose babies.
And she's just like using it as a fake sick
day path like it just it's so disgusting. It made
me look at her completely differently.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, I would too.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
This would make me look at somebody differently, I'd be like,
this is I'd almost have to say something, but like
you said, I know it's not technically your business, but
at the same.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Time, I just it's gross to lie about.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's so gross awful, and like you were saying, like
she hasn't thought it through, like how do you end
a fake pregnancy?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You know that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
She's unfortunately probably gonna say that fake the end of
the fake the end of it too, and you know
that's not going to be gross.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Okay, she'll probably take a couple of days off for
that too. That now that would enrage. Yeah, that would rage.
That's I don't even want to think about that. I
don't like that at all.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So I know. So, like my dilemma is like I
wanted part of me wants to tell my boss because
it's so gross, But then I'm like, do I really
want to get in.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I don't know, you that's a good question, like does
this something like I'm trying to think, like we have
to watch these videos sometimes of work, like if somebody's
doing something.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Right, compliance, would you, yeah, compliance, would you say something,
see something, say something? But in this.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Case, unless her like work is affecting the team, or
tanking the company, or like our goals together.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't know if you could say anything.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Technically she is stealing company time and money though, if
she's lying about But then again, how you do it?
I don't know if if she told you this, if
she just told you this, it could be just hearsay.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, if you're the only one she told, then she's
gonna know you're the one that ratted her out. I
don't know if I would say anything. I think this
kind of karma comes full circle on its own. Yeah, right,
I don't know. You know, if you tell her that
they got to get HR involved the whole big.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
No, that's who you would tell, is HR? I guess right, Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, I don't tell anything. I'd avoid a charre at
all costs. Even when I see him in the hallway,
I keep my head down.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Like they won't notice me.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, I think I might stay out of it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I don't know. Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry that you
got to deal with that. That is that is awful,
and I would yeah, I wouldn't. It feels ichy. I
wouldn't want to be around it at all.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But she'll get hers. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Some way, somehow this stuff comes around. I truly believe that.
And you know it won't be It won't be good
for her.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
No, it is not going to be good, not at all.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, let us know what happens.
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