u/BarcodeSorcerer

Im 29F and work remotely for a small marketing agency. My teammate "Jenna" is always online. Answers emails at 6am. Never turns her camera on. We all thought she was just super productive.
Last week we had a one on one and she accidentally let it slip that she doesnt have a home. She's been living out of her car for 8 months. She works from coffee shops or library parking lots. Uses her phone hotspot. Charges her laptop at Starbucks.
I was speechless. She said please dont tell anyone because shes afraid theyll fire her if they find out she doesnt have a "stable" workspace. She does all her work on time. Clients love her. Nobody would ever know.
Now I feel guilty sitting in my home office with my comfy chair and reliable wifi. I offered to let her use my guest room but she said no because shes embarrassed. I dont know what to do. Do I tell my manager? Do I just pretend I never heard anything?
My heart hurts for her. But also its none of my business. Remote work is weird.

I always read sci-fi for the tech. Cool ships. Weird aliens. Future weapons. Then I read The Dispossessed and realized I had been missing the entire point for 15 years.
The book has almost no action. No battles. No explosions. Just a guy walking around two different planets thinking about society. And I could not put it down. I finished it at 3am and just sat there staring at my wall.
I had been treating sci-fi like a roller coaster. Le Guin showed me it can be a mirror. I feel like I need to reread everything now. Anyone else have a book that completely changed how you read the genre.