A wife has shared the hilarious moment her husband realized he was late for work in a video that has gained viral attention on TikTok.
Taylor, 32, from Terre Haute, Indiana, caught her husband Aaron’s frantic dash for work on their security camera, after she texted him with a simple but huge question: “What are you doing?”
The clip, which has racked up more than 260,000 views on TikTok, shows Aaron standing outside in his robe—unaware of the time—before suddenly sprinting back into the house after Taylor’s message snapped him back to reality.
“We have cameras all over because we run a dog and cat rescue out of our home, and my husband is known for wearing his robes,” Taylor, who didn’t give a surname, told Newsweek. “I was at work when I saw him on the camera at 9:30, knowing he had work at 9, and panicked. So I texted him, then checked the footage to see his reaction. He’d gone to bed knowing he had a shift at 9, but for some reason, his brain set his alarm for 9 instead.”
Luckily, Aaron is an assistant manager at Best Buy, and his usual punctuality meant that his late arrival wasn’t a big deal. “We only live about three minutes from his work, so he got there pretty fast,” Taylor said. “I share a lot about our life with the rescue online, and people always laugh when I post him in his robes. So when he ran like that, I laughed at work and thought others might too.”
It turns out Aaron isn’t alone though. According to a 2014 YouGov poll, 19 percent of Americans said they are late for work at least once a week—although 48 percent said they are always on time.
Millennials reported higher rates of lateness than older workers, with 22 percent of millennials late at least weekly, compared with just 15 percent of those aged 55 and older.
As the video gained more attention on TikTok, people shared their reactions.
“By then y’all work so many hours your just costing on autopilot trying to remember which day of what month it is,” said viewer sitkiewiczclan.
While Opendoor joked: “Hope he went in the robe.”
This isn’t the first time someone being late for work has gained viral attention. In 2022 there was outrage when a HR department scheduled a meeting about an employee being just one minute late to work, while a woman in New York City shared the nightmare reason she was an hour late for work—and caught it on camera.
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