You walk into somebody's office to say hi and have a friendly chat. You 
discover that the person in question is actually quietly crying.

What do you do?

1. Attempt to do the whole comforting / supportive trip.

2. Bugger off and leave them in peace.



Obviously the answer depends on how much you like the person. We can 
assume by the fact that you were making a social call in the first place 
that you like this person.

Similarly, it depends on how well you know the person. Since I don't 
honestly know Cute QA Girl very well at all, I opted for option #2. I 
did give very serious considering to going back later to see if she was 
OK, and point out that I would have offered her option #1 - but this 
didn't actually occur.

I did, however, speak to her later that day. She actually *invited* me 
into her office, no less. (Usually I don't get to have a conversation 
with her unless *I* am the one who starts it. It's most unusual her for 
to initiate one on purpose. Unless her PC is ****ed...) I couldn't begin 
to speculate what upset her that morning, but when I spoke to her a few 
hours later, you'd never know anything had happened.

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