This is real life.

"Morning Katrina, you look terrible. Like exhausted, are you hungover?"

"That's it, I'm driving to Kristin's. Want to come along?" (Kristin is home sick. Really. LBL can't accept that people really do get sick.)

"Katrina, I want you to call this client. He's at a funeral. His wife died. Tell him to head over to the office after. Katrina, business goes on. He won't answer, he's in the funeral."

"Katrina, next time you consider just taking off on a random roadtrip, do it. Here, I'll give you $200, no questions asked if you'll do it this weekend, just take off Saturday morning. [Pulls out his money clip.]

Staying home sick = not acceptable. Admitting that you almost took off and bailed on Thursday/Friday of work = Paid Awesomeness.

You best believe this is good stuff for a character one day. No one would suspect how true it all is.