Language barriers? Generation gap?

This boss and employee story got extremely awkward because of a communication gap between them!

Find out what happened…

AITA for telling my boss why I needed a day off?

For context, I’m a woman.in my 40s. My boss is a man in his 20s.

He really shouldn’t be managing anything (this is literally his first job ever) but his mother owns the company.

She needed to urgently see the doctor.

I booked a morning off this week for a gynecologist appointment.

It was approved, but today my boss told me they’d had a unexpected schedule change and asked me to cancel and come to work.

He wouldn’t understand the problem.

I said I was having severe feminine itching and really need to see a doctor, but he said didn’t think itching was any worse for women than for men and wasn’t a good reason to miss work.

English is not his first language, although he is very fluent, so I guess that particular phrase didn’t translate.

She explicitly mentioned what was wrong.

I didn’t really know any other way to put it, so I told him it was itching in my private areas.

He looked horrified and told I could have the morning off but it was really inappropriate for me to say those words.

She knows it wasn’t the best idea!

I agree that it was awkward to say and hear, but I had no idea how else to phrase it.

I guess I could have made up a less intimate problem, but when I submit my leave paperwork he’ll see I was at the gyno anyway, so making up a toothache wouldn’t have worked.

The boss wasn’t budging so she did what she had to.

But I obviously made him uncomfortable, and I’m feeling gross about it.

Some things are meant to be private.

Let’s find out what users on Reddit think about this annoying boss.

This user would want the lady to be firm about her doctor’s appointment next time.

This person knows where to create work boundaries.

This person knows its the boss’s fault entirely!

This person knows the boss asked for that!

That’s an important question!

This boss could have just let the lady have her gyno appointment!

At least she made him regret his nosiness.

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