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Amazingly Dedicated Woman Retires After 44 Years Without Taking a Sick Day
Deborah Ford really takes that whole “neither rain nor hail” mantra seriously.
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Some People — GASP — May Not Actually Be Sick When They Take a Sick Day
In not-so-stunning news, it appears that every sick day taken by employees may not be due to genuine illness. The latest survey by CareerBuilder found that about a third of all call-ins last year were made by workers who simply opted to take the day off rather than save their sick time for when they actually needed it.
However, the most interesting attribute of calling in sick is the excuses that people make for not coming into work. Sure, there are the standard lines that most managers hear repeatedly, but some employees get creative with their excuses.
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The Best Ways to Call In Sick
I haven't done it since I was a teenager, and I had a job washing dishes at a delicatessen. It was not the greatest job in the world, but it wasn't the worst either. I did get one free meal every day I was working, so that took a little of the sting out of it, but calling in sick at that age was inevitable. Everybody does it once in a while, right? So you lower your voice, try to sound scratchy and hoarse, maybe throw in a few lame coughs to embellish a little bit. But now, my surfing the web has revealed some better ways to play hooky, not that we would endorse such things, right? Read on brethren...