Coworker Used My Hospital Stay to Get a Paid Vacation in Cancun

Ela's Got the Tea · Oct 21, 2026 · 37m · transcript

An advice column with tea.

Every week I open three real letters from the internet’s messiest corners and look past the surface drama at what’s actually going on underneath.

Grab your favorite cup. Let me pour.

In this episode:

Worth What I Can Send — she pays her parents’ rent and her mother says it still isn’t enough

My Name On Her Alibi — a coworker borrowed her medical emergency to get a week in Cancun

Fourteen Months and Fast — a toddler discovers he has legs

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

01:08 Worth What I Can Send (r/AmItheAsshole)

14:14 My Name On Her Alibi (r/amiwrong)

25:07 Fourteen Months…