Calling Out of Work

[JPS]

Is it as bad as I think it is?

I called out today, the company gives me 2 personal days a year, but still...this is the first time Ive ever called out of work.

Im scared theyre going to yell and scream at me tomorrow, and Im paranoid Ill get fired, even though I know I wont.

Plus everyones going to be mad at me...but meh, theyll get over it I suppose.

[Sezjeuric]

Re: Calling Out of Work

Well, there is a responsible way to go about this.

Home Depot gives me 2 days a year as well (although recently, the Ontario government created Family Day so Home Depot automatically uses one of my days for this) and because I NEVER call in sick, I always have to fight to use them up before they expire on New Years.

Anyway...... it helps to plan ahead of time when you are going to use them, that way your coworkers aren't stuck in a lurch.

Mind you, I don't think they were created for planning ahead, it is when you are in a lurch and need the day off without reprimand.

[JPS]

Re: Calling Out of Work

I told them I went down to Norfolk to visit my parents and the car broke down and its in the shop

Easiest thing I could come up with, they seem to have bought it because they were laughing about it.

But I just dont think it sunk in yet

[Stormy]

Re: Calling Out of Work

I think its fine, just don't let it become a habit Thats what happens to me sometimes. I'll call in a day and be freakin' out. After a few days its like 'meh, no big deal.' Thats when I become a bad person

[Goufunaki]

Re: Calling Out of Work

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content...d.html?sid=101

Police: Friend shot man in sick-leave ploy
Saturday, March 1, 2008 4:55 PM

PASCO, Wash. — What happened to faking a cough?

Sheriff's detectives in Franklin County, Wash., say a man had his friend shoot him in the shoulder so he wouldn't have to go to work.

When he first spoke with deputies, Daniel Kuch told them he'd been the victim of a drive-by shooting while he was jogging Thursday. But detectives told KONA radio that Kuch later acknowledged that he asked his friend to shoot him so he could get some time off work and avoid a drug test.

The friend has been arrested for investigation of reckless endangerment. Kuch is expected to be charged with false reporting.

Detectives declined to say where Kuch works, or whether he still has a job. It wasn't known whether he had obtained a lawyer.

[JPS]

Re: Calling Out of Work

Well you guys made me feel a little better.

I have a position hardly anyone knows how to do, so I was kinda hesitant on it, but meh, oh well.

[Perversion]

Re: Calling Out of Work

I've never heard it referred to as, "Calling out of work." Must be a Virginia thing. I've always called it "Calling off of work," or just plain, "Calling in sick."

[Fushigi na Renamon]

Re: Calling Out of Work

Whenever I call in sick I think of the Weird Al song. >_>;

Hit my snooze alarm for the 27th time
Just don't feel like goin' to work
Think I'll call my boss and I'm
Gonna hack and cough and wheeze
Swear I've got some strange disease
What's that little twerp gonna say?

[JPS]

Re: Calling Out of Work

I've never heard it referred to as, "Calling out of work." Must be a Virginia thing. I've always called it "Calling off of work," or just plain, "Calling in sick."

I think it may be a "me" thing, Ive only heard 1 other person in my life call it "call out of work"

Well, 2 others, Funk will say it a little over 4 months from now when he does the same exact thing I'm doing right now.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: Calling Out of Work

im not one to take sick days unless im totally blown and dont have a chance to rise. during school i got more liberal with it as i became bored with repeating course material, but otherwise i rarely take a day off.

just make up an easy story to go with your ploy if you want it to sound legit, though it quite honestly doesnt mater much since no one can say anything.