Office Secret (d120)

1-2

Health

I have a gambling addiction but keep it concealed from everyone.

3

Mundane

I’ve been stealing lunches for months and blaming the fridge.

4-5

Mundane

I lied on my resume—I’ve never used Excel in my life.

6

Mundane

I keep a second desk set up on another floor to hide from meetings.

7

Mundane

I’ve been clocking in my roommate so they get paid while staying home.

8

Mundane

My manager thinks I’m someone else—and I’ve never corrected her.

9

Mundane

I forwarded that anonymous complaint about the regional director.

10

Mundane

I used the team budget to buy myself a standing desk.

11

Mundane

I forged my onboarding documents and no one noticed.

12-13

Mundane

I’m not actually employed here. I just never left after my contract ended.

14

Mundane

My real job is across the street. This office has free snacks.

15

Mundane

I’ve been rerouting supply orders to my apartment.

16

Mundane

My annual reports are just lightly rewritten versions of the year before.

17

Mundane

I’m the one who keeps changing the shared drive folder names to mess with people.

18

Mundane

I wrote the fake IT helpdesk chatbot just to see who would believe it.

19

Mundane

The ‘productivity tracker’ I installed doesn’t do anything—it’s just a screensaver.

20

Mundane

I broke the coffee machine last year and covered it with tape and prayers.

21-22

Mundane

I’ve never read a single team email. I just skim the subject lines.

23

Mundane

I’ve been dating two people in the office. They don’t know about each other.

24

Mundane

I swapped badge IDs with a coworker three months ago as a joke. Now I’m them.

25

Mundane

My desk plant is fake, but I pretend to water it to avoid conversation.

26-27

Mundane

I got promoted by accident because they thought I was someone else.

28

Mundane

I’ve been submitting the same ‘new idea’ to innovation week for three years.

29

Mundane

I have a private Slack channel where I track everyone’s typos.

30-31

Mundane

I told HR I had a family emergency to avoid a group project. I went to Resolve: {Vegas|Tahoe|Hawaii|Cancun|Atlantic City}

32

Mundane

I know who keeps stealing pens—but I won’t say anything because I like the drama.

33

Mundane

I am the creator of a popular work of mediaResolve: {, but keep it secret and remain anonomous.|The credit was stolen from me|Those days are behind me.}

34-35

Home

I sleep in my car because I can’t afford rent anymore.

36-37

Home

My spouse thinks I quit this job six months ago.

38-39

Home

I live with my parents and pretend it’s just ‘temporary.’

40

Home

I have a kid I’ve never told anyone about.

41-42

Home

I leave work late every day just to avoid going home.

43

Home

I’m technically squatting in my old apartment.

44

Home

I haven’t had internet or power at home for two weeks.

45-46

Home

My roommate thinks I moved out—I just use the office to shower and sleep.

47

Home

I lied about having a dog so I’d have an excuse to leave early every day.

48

Home

My partner doesn’t know I’m still paying off my ex’s debts.

49-50

Home

I sleep on the floor so my kid can have the bed.

51-52

Home

I live in a storage unit and use a gym pass to stay clean.

53

Home

My house burned down and no one at work noticed.

54

Home

I’m secretly caring for a parent with late-stage dementia.

55

Home

I fake a commute because I don’t want my family to know I got fired last month.

56

Home

The reason I take long lunch breaks is to feed my neighbor’s kids.

57-58

Home

My partner moved out months ago, but I pretend we’re still together.

59

Home

I lied about having roommates—it's actually a halfway house.

60

Home

I have a second job overnight that no one here knows about.

61

Home

I’ve been forging my lease agreement to meet HR residency requirements.

62

Home

I gave up my apartment to pay for my brother’s lawyer.

63

Home

My family thinks I work in tech. I don’t even know what we do here.

64

Home

I still get mail for the last tenant and pretend to be them sometimes.

65

Home

My rent is paid by someone I haven't spoken to in five years.

66

Home

I have a locked room in my apartment I never open—but I still pay to keep it.

67

Health

I stopped taking my medication two weeks ago to save money.

68

Health

I have a diagnosis, but I haven’t told anyone — not even my family.

69

Health

I fake confidence, but I can’t actually read anything farther than a foot away.

70

Health

I have severe food allergies and I eat around them silently every day.

71

Health

I haven’t seen a doctor in years because I’m terrified of what they’ll say.

72

Health

I pretended my health screening was normal so I wouldn’t lose my job.

73

Health

My hands shake, so I avoid group work that requires writing or typing.

74

Health

I collapse from migraines when I’m alone so no one notices.

75

Health

I can’t hear well, but I’ve learned to nod and guess.

76

Health

I’m technically legally blind — I memorize layouts and fake it.

77

Health

I have an autoimmune condition I don’t understand, and I’m scared to ask.

78

Health

I have chronic pain, but I hide it so people won’t treat me differently.

79

Health

I get dizzy standing up, but I act like it’s nothing.

80

Health

My condition is progressive. One day I won’t be able to do this at all.

81

Health

I have panic attacks in the stairwell and just say I was on a call.

82

Health

I forged a wellness form to avoid triggering insurance restrictions.

83

Health

I can’t sleep more than two hours at a time, but I act like I’m fine.

84

Health

I have a genetic condition no one here has ever heard of.

85

Health

I’m in withdrawal from a medication I can’t get refilled anymore.

86

Health

I take breaks to cry in the bathroom and pretend it’s just allergies.

87

Health

I was exposed to something during the last building renovation. I haven’t told anyone.

88

Health

I’ve been misdiagnosed and I know it, but I don’t have the energy to fight it.

89

Health

I hoard over-the-counter painkillers in my drawer like they're gold.

90

Health

I’m not allowed to donate blood anymore — but no one knows why.

91

Health

I am addicted to perscription medication.  Resolve: {I barely function.|It has become a significant impact on my work performance|No one has found out yet.|My doctor is complicit in my addiction.}

92

Health

I am addicted to illicit drugs.  Resolve: {I barely function.|It has become a significant impact on my work performance|No one has found out yet.|Criminals are impacting my life.}

93

Finance

I like buying Nice Things, but I can't always afford them. I buy them anyway.

94

Legal

All my documentation is fake.

95

Legal

I am in the Witness Protection Program

96

Finance

I sold all my posessions in order to pay off my debts.

97

Health

I am a barely functional alchoholic.

98

Finance

I have a crippling level of Credit Card debt.

99

Finance

I feel I will never be able to pay off my student loans, and am deeply regretting the costs of my education.

100

Finance

I spend more than I can afford on Lottery Sweepstakes Tickets.

101

Health

I don’t want help. I just want to survive unnoticed.

102

Home

I live in a converted van, which technically has better insulation than the break room.

103

Legal

I am a kleptomaniac, and often steal small items.

104

Finance

I won the lottery sweepstakes and haven't told anyone.

105

Health

I am a recovering addict. Resolve: {I recently had a crisis|I recently relapsed.}

106

Finance

I havent paid rent in five years, but my landlord seems to have forgotten about me.

107

Past

I fell in love with the wrong person. They dragged me into an exciting world I never knew existed, and I freaked out. I left them.

108

Legal

My Resolve: {best friend|lover|family} accused me of a crime I know I didn’t commit, but they somehow had photos proving otherwise!

109

Danger

... so there I was, in a literal warzone, bullets flying all around me. If it weren’t for this dangerous psychopath I'd somehow befriended, I’d be a corpse.

110

Family

My parents were deranged on some basal level. I grew up in chaos. I escaped as soon as I could.

111

Finance

Somehow, through no fault of my own, I ended up with all this money and status. And now? I don’t know what happened to it all.

112

Witness

Someone once took me out to some isolated place and showed me something... something you wouldn't believe even if I could explain it. It gives me weird dreams to this day.

113

Past

It was obvious from an early age that I had real talent. Everyone told me I'd be famous and successful... and, yet, here I am.

114

Past

I took a job having zero experience that no one thought I could do. After a few years, I quit and didn’t look back. I can’t say why.

115

History

Someone very close to me died under mysterious circumstances. No one will tell me what happened; the people in my life still refuse to talk about it.

116

Past

Work. Sleep. Work. Sleep. Forever. One day I just had enough --- middle of the day, I just exploded in a rage. I left that life behind, and I try not to talk about it.

117

Past

I think I can't let it go because the system stepped in, the state or someone with the authority to take it all out of my hands.

118

Shame

"Thinking about it fills me with regret. I didn’t comport myself with any dignity or honesty. I thought I was better than that."

119

Past

"I think I can't let it go because I don’t understand how it happened, and because I don’t understand it I can’t resolve it."

120

Past

"I think I can't let it go because forgiveness is earned, and the person or people responsible haven’t earned it."