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- Beeryan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27If #3 is true than about 80% of the people on here should've stayed home today
- meruru, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26#4: You have PTO that is expiring at the end of the year
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21do or do not, there is no try
- srodolff, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23#1 Good reason to call in sick: You’re a danger to others.
I might as well quit my job. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25I'm sick of my job and the moronic managers who screwed up a job I thought I'd keep for 20 years.
When I have sick time, I call in whenever I damn well feel like it.
Back when I had a job I cared about, I only stayed out when I would make my coworkers sick by coming in.
Now? Feh..... - cmwotring, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18The way I see it is that you don't need an excuse to call in. Just say I won't be making it in today. You're an adult. As long as you don't make it habitual. If you want to go to a baseball game, play Halo, have a hangover, masturbate as others have said, than do it. Life is not all about work and if you have a sick day available take a sick day.
- steinalec, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24too busy masturbating
- sundancekid503, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19I prefer working when I'm sick and saving my sick days for indulging in the guilty pleasures of a new video game release or something. Why waste a sick day actually being sick?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Sounds like it's time to jump ship! (the job I mean, I do not endorse actual ship jumping... I mean, that's just dangerous man)
- zerhynn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Halo 3.
- Jwoey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Don't you hate that? I have flextime so I'm not actually late... but I don't get to leave as early as I'd like. You sit there and think... "Hmm, I have 5 minutes... but then 5 minutes rolls around and you're not done yet... but its not as if you're going to stop at this point, so you continue on.
Next thing you know you're leaving 25 minutes late. *****. - chaos7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6whenever i ***** feel like it
- Jwoey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I do the same thing, but there's always karma attached to it (***** karma, its just a coincidence, right?) Everytime I call in sick because of a video game release, 1 week later I actually get sick, and noone's willing to believe me that I was "sick twice in 1 week"... cause i really wasn't.
Sigh. Why can't they just call them Personal days and let you use them for whatever reason? Hi, boss? I won't be coming in today. Last night I stayed up until 3 playing HL2Ep2 and i'm tired as *****. - NnyCW, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Usually other people end up getting sick when someone who's actually sick shows up at work. Not to mention, their workrate when at work sick tends to drop as well.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah, if you have no self-dignity.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5How about "A car containing your whole family was hit by a tanker truck jamming all possible escape routes and was slowly roasted by ignited fuel".
What? - edwartica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just take a laptop into the restroom and set up shop for the day in a stall.
- DrewBlood, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Indeed. I nearly came down with OrangeBoxitis today.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I usually call in sick when i'm feeling good, I don't want to stay home when I feel like *****.
Plus if I get other people sick at work, then I wont have to deal with them when they've caught my illness. - Nougat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4If I stayed home sick for two days every time I had a cold, I wouldn't have enough PTO days left to stay home when my kids and/or wife were sick.
- K.Restoule, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I don't need some pompous ass article writer (who's not a doctor) telling me if I'm justified in calling in sick or not. This is probably the same person who says that I'm stealing from the company for making a personal phone call on a company line. SHEESH
- selrahc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Canoe jumping is still pretty safe though. Feel free to continue doing that.
- ConeOfSilence, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8hangover
- goatspanka, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Good reason to call in sick? The boss just found out I've been banging his wife...
- dtele, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I was up all night on Digg.
- burdalane, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3If you have sick days left, you don't need a good excuse to call in sick. I'm lucky -- I get plenty of both sick days and vacation days, and they accumulate from year to year if I don't use them all.
- platypibri, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3iSick is a legitimate reason to stay home. Like, iSick cuz, iWait in line all day for iPhone.
- sagat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3"If you have less than a year’s tenure in some companies they may terminate you if you have been out of work for three days – that’s common in manufacturing,” Harvey says. So if you stay home and snooze, you lose.[/quote]
God bless America with it's 8 vacation days and 2 sick days, you really live to work in this country as opposed to Europe where they work to live. - nezroy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, but if OTHER people stayed home when they had a cold, you might not get so damn many colds in the first place.
- platypibri, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5Why is this guy being dugg down? Is that what our work ethic has come to?
- mywhitenoise, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2One good thing about working for the state, is that we good pretty good hours for time off. I think I have about 3 and a half weeks for sick leave/vacation time, and i've only been working with the state for a little over a year. My office doesn't give a ***** if I want to take a day off, as long as I call in.
- platypibri, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Um, Peter... I'm gonna need you to come in on Saturday.
- fluidc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2When it gets to the point that you completely burned out from being a corporate slave and that damn Slaveberry buzzing to dictate your next command.
- zeromancer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4i was up all night on your mom.
sorry. the mom jokes are just flowing today. i hope you'll accept that i'm not really trying to insult you, but merely blowing off some steam. no hard feelings, cool? - RuffRidr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey, I've been in corporate life for quite awhile now. I've had plenty of both kinds of managers. If you have read ANY of mightydavefish's posts on here, you'd know what I meant above. He obviously has no people skills whatsoever.
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3mightydavefish - get a new job - you aren't doing yourself any favor by staying.
We have all been in the situation of having to stay in a bad job for financial or other reasons for a period of time, but once you develop this attitude your #1 job is to look for a new job as if you were unemployed *today*. Most people stay at bad jobs for no other reason except they are simply too lazy to *really* job hunt unless they are completely unemployed and broke. Keep in mind you might be MUCH happier at a job with less money too. - Jektal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I think that's just a Personal Day
- platypibri, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6You should also call in sick when you have come down with tickets to the game. Or if you've caught a particularly unruly strain of fishing fever.
- th3walrus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's all good in theory, but in most cases you can't realistically stay home this much. At my job we have a really horrid sick leave policy which pretty much prohibits us from using the sick time we get in any case where it's not the beginning of extended leave. We're expected to use our vacation days or make up the time off sick.
What has happened because of this is that half the office is sick one week and the other half is sick the following week because everyone comes to work sick. It's a terrible environment to work in knowing that your next illness is only a week away because everyone in the offices around you are coughing and sneezing like mad. I wish I could break the cycle by staying home whenever I have something contagious, but I generally use up half of my vacation time being sick with stuff that I have no choice but to stay home from work.
Employers really need to get a grip on the health of their employees. A well employee will do much better work than a sick one and morale will be higher. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I've been in since 11am and my hangover STILL hasn't gone away. *ugh*
- rellik12, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm just over a bad cold, didn't take any time off and consequently half my department is now off sick. Sod em - I got no sympathy when I was wheezing and sniffling all over 'em. Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! Yuk!
- fluidc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Word
- Christbait, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1My front door fell off. Always works. And for me, at one point, my front door did actually fall off it's hinges just as I was heading out, and had to wait for it to get them replaced before someone helps themselves to the contents of my home.
- Cannfodd3r, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Not sure who yours is either. I started at my job with 20 days, 3 personal days and unlimited sick days... and that's in the U.S. (although for a British bank)
- fungule, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Your comment make head explode.
- OwdenBowden, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Until you walk in another mans Manages don't be so judgmental.
The fact is that there are more and more Managers that are screwing people and the Firm than Managing to help them out while helping the firm. I see it everyday and I am just as sick of it as anyone. And for the record - how do you display attitude with text? - adamriggins, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2dupe. I at least submitted the printer friendly, one page version..
http://digg.com/health/Too_Sick_to_Work - flaterates, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I had great excuses. I lived high in the mountains 90 miles from work and when it would snow I'd call in saying the road ws closed. Lot's of times they had the snow level wrong and I'd call in anyway. Northridge earthquake? The road was blocked. All these times the CHP, or LA County Sherriffs would have let me through, but it was just too much fun calling in with excuses no one else would possibly come up with.
- licoricewhip, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I called in sick the day Halo 3 came out. That raised a few eyebrows and I seemed to have to legitimize my sick time. I don't even own a 360 much less the game. Nobody believed me.
- n0xz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1HALO3 !!! *uGh* *b000m* *baMM*
My body is mangled. Can't drive ! -
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