Boss is throwing me under the bus for her missing pre-hit

I just started at the UPS store and honestly have been loving it. I’m a thinker and a writer, and I like a job where you can do the work while also being able to be totally engrossed in your own headspace. The one thing that takes me out of it is the loud ass packing tape. That “GRZEEEEEEK” sound it makes is noxious to my ears and absolute hell on my overly sensitive teeth. So, less than a week in I ordered silent packing tape. Call me a pussy, a softie, whatever— it works and it works well. In fact, the adhesive on the new tape is stronger than the stuff they have in the Store, so there is no downside.

Today I arrived in the AM in a very chipper mood. It was great a peaceful, and tomorrow my favorite comic is in town and I have tickets, so I was having a great Friday.

The serenity was broken around noon when a driver came in asking where my boss was. I hadn’t seen her yet so I told him I assumed she was just in her office. I went to go check and the driver, who seemed to be in a huff, followed me. Forgetting my manners a bit, I opened her door without knocking. I wish I hadn’t, because my boss was sleeping at her desk. We had to shake her awake and when she came to her senses she angrily told me to leave immediately and shut the door behind her so she could “discuss matters” with the driver.

After the driver left, she called me into her office and asked me if I had been taping boxes that morning. I said yes, then sheepishly explained that I was using zero noise tape— she didn’t strike me as the type to look kindly upon rocking the boat of traditional company procedure, so I had avoided telling her about the tape switch.

Turns out it wasn’t the breach of procedure that pissed her off so much, but instead it was the fact that I was using tape that didn’t wake her up. She told me that her Friday tradition was “extra nap day”— she would come in very early, get things set up, and sleep until she woke up to the sound of taping, which her body had apparently become accustomed to as a “natural alarm clock.” I thought she was joking, but I texted a coworker who confirmed it: “as soon as I start taping, I know she’s gonna come out of there within five minutes.”

The driver is going to call corporate, and my boss told me point blank that she’s going to throw me under the bus. I told her that I really don’t think I am going to get in trouble for not waking her up from her sleep, as that’s ridiculous. And she told me cryptically that that’s not the story she’s going to tell, and that she will do anything to keep her job.

Do I need to worry about this? Only thing I’m really concerned about is the tape; not sure if corporate gets their socks in a screwdriver over things like that. Also not looking forward to a bad relationship with my boss if she keeps her job, but I’ve had some bad supervisor before so it’s nothing new for me.