Working night shifts can come with unexpected emergencies.

In this story, an employee was working alone as a night auditor when a guest called saying his kid had gone missing.

He immediately left the desk mid-audit to search the hotel floors because it was a time-sensitive situation.

But when he couldn’t find anyone and couldn’t reach the guest again, he started questioning what really happened.

Check out the full details below.

Got a somewhat strange call on night audit

I am a night auditor on a military base. This happened tonight shortly after midnight.

Tonight is one of my first shifts alone. I usually have a partner.

Everything was going pretty smoothly.

As midnight came around and the day rolled over, I started the night audit.

This man got a strange and urgent call from a guest at the hotel.

We use Opera. It takes forever.

About two minutes in, I got an urgent call from a guest staying at the hotel.

He told me that while he was showering, his kid had left the room.

I felt that this was a time-sensitive situation. The night audit was still running.

He helped the guest look for his kid.

So I told the guest to start searching from his floor.

I told him to meet me in the middle.

I left the desk without signing out of the computers.

I searched all five floors. I finally returned to the desk after ten minutes.

Now, he’s wondering if it was a trick call.

There was no sign of him or the kid anywhere.

Upon trying to call the guest back twice, I was sent to voicemail each time.

My question.

Did I get played into leaving the computers unattended?

Hmmm… while the situation with a missing child is serious, the possibility that it may have been a trick call can also be true.

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What would you have done if it were you? Let’s see other people’s reactions and responses.

This user shares their personal thoughts.

Sounds like a weird prank, says this one.

Short and simple.

This one makes a valid point.

Uh oh! This one’s not good.

When things don’t add up, even a missing kid story can feel like a plot twist.