Early on at my first full-time job I requested a week off to attend a Quaker conference. My manager approved the request without comment. After I returned from

Early on at my first full-time job I requested a week off to attend a Quaker conference. My manager approved the request without comment. After I returned from vacation he asked how the competition went. He'd never heard of Quakers and had genuinely assumed I was attending some Quake tournament.