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  • If you're going to play hookey, don't get caught

    Note: I thought about posting this in Cursing Out Coworkers, but at this point I'm more amused by him getting caught than I am annoyed at having to cover his shift.

    Shortly after noon on Sunday, I was woken up by a call from my assistant manager, asking -- nay, begging-- me to work the 2-9 shift to cover for my coworker, who had called in sick. I was not at all enthused about coming in to work on my day off, especially since it means working 6 days in a row this week (without overtime pay, because the pay period ends mid-week), but my poor AM sounded desperate, and she did say pretty please.

    Fun fact: At my store, when you call in sick, you have to either give 3 hours notice or bring in a doctors note to prove it was an emergency. CW knew this; it was covered at our last staff meeting. Since he called in less than 2 hours before his shift was supposed to start, AM told him to bring in a doctors note by the end of the week. CW said "he'd see what he could do", and AM reminded him it was store policy and that he'd be written up if he didn't provide a note.

    Today (Monday), he called AM and admitted that he had lied, and that he skipped work to take care of "personal business". AM is, to say the least, kind of pissed, and I'm pretty sure the store manager is going to hear about this when he gets back from vacation next week.

    I will admit to faking sick one time-- It was the end of a six-day stretch, and it had been a particularly bad week, and I was seriously one SC away from an emotional meltdown, so I justified it to myself as a mental health emergency. But, since I knew the policy, I gave them like 8 hours notice, so they were none the wiser.
    It doesn't matter if you win or lose, as long as you look really cool doing it! -- Julio Scoundrel, Order of the Stick

  • #2
    I, too, will admit to faking it a couple of times but even when I did do it, no one really gave much of a damn. They still wouldn't, considering I call out maybe once every four years or so.

    But if someone knows the policy, they should at least be within it to cover their own butts.
    Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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    • #3
      Where I work, we get points if we call out, and after so many you get fired, so in two years I have called out sick twice. If it weren't for the points system, I am sure I would have taken a mental health day as recently as last week.

      A mental health day is actually good for you, according to what I have read, but unfortunately for me, if I used that excuse with my boss, he would laugh in my face and tell me to get my ass into work.

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      • #4
        Here supervisors often get calls with loud music in the background and slurred speech lol.

        No notes no trouble

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        • #5
          If he didn't want to get written up, he should've used a different excuse. "I'm stuck out of town and my ride broke down" is a popular one. Not saying it's right, but he could've picked a different reason than "I'm sick".
          A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)

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          • #6
            Reminds me of when I worked at the movie theater. We'd get co-irkers calling out sick, and then trying to come to the theater to use their free tickets for some movie, and get confused when they were asked why they couldn't work that day.
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            • #7
              Mental Health Day = Vision Problems

              I can't SEE myself comming into work today

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              • #8
                I have yet to have a mental health day. Only time I called off when I wasn't sick was when I was going to a hockey game. I guess that could be classified as one, since it was during the holiday season in '08.
                Last edited by cashierbex; 11-24-2012, 08:25 PM. Reason: date change

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                • #9
                  Quoth cashierbex View Post
                  ...going to a hockey game...
                  Caught! == You're pucked!
                  I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
                  Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
                  Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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                  • #10
                    Or if you do call out and pretend to be sick, don't do it on a night shift when half the front end asked off for some big concert at the local coliseum and you were initially told 'no.'

                    One girl did this years ago (can't recall the group that was appearing in town that night, but IIRC it was one of the big-name rappers of the day back in the early 90's.)

                    Even funnier, she showed up at the store about 2 hours before the concert was supposed to start - looked plenty healthy to me.

                    The office person who worked that night and the MOD both were not impressed - in retrospect, I suspect they were expecting this girl to pull such a stunt.

                    She was gone not long after that incident.
                    Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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                    • #11
                      Excuses as told to me by a colleague regarding some of his co-workers excuses at his previous job:

                      "I can't come in today, I've eaten an ice lolly too quick"

                      "I can't come to work today, I have amnesia"

                      Really? REALLY?

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                      • #12
                        We had a cashier at my work who did something similar. This girl called out for her shift, and then came to the store with her boyfriend to shop. She wasn't employed very long.

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                        • #13
                          Had a cashier once call out "sick" (she gave some sort of generic "i don't feel good" excuse), turns out she had a party to go to instead. She showed up the following morning late, walking slowly with a large black coffee, dark sunglasses and bragging about how much she had drunk the night before. Since I had to deal with results of her "sick call" the night before and was in charge when she finally crawled in; I stuck her next to the can machines for the remainder of her shift (the machines in my store were right next to the registers). It was a very busy Saturday on the can machines

                          At my current job, there's a guy in my department who calls out every on the third Monday or Tuesday of the month with this gem "(cough cough) I can't come in, I'm sweaty"...

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                          • #14
                            I once called in sick to work a few hours before my shift started from a Ren Faire, and said only that I was "sick."

                            Boss wasn't fooled; they could hear the noise in the back ground when I called in, and I was drunk as a skunk when I called in (of course being drunk, I had no business going to work in a hospital--but since I knew I was scheduled I shouldn't have been drinking in the first place).

                            A co worker had a habit of calling in from the casino; we could hear the slots in the background.

                            A friend told me this gem: he had a female co worker who took off every month because of her period--to the utter frustration of the rest of the staff. So one day a male coworker called in sick "because my dick hurts." The female manager tried to challenge it but the male coworker stood firm. If you could get away with calling off for female issues, he could call off for his male issue.
                            They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Sapphire Silk View Post
                              So one day a male coworker called in sick "because my dick hurts." The female manager tried to challenge it but the male coworker stood firm.
                              Quoth Sapphire Silk View Post
                              The female manager tried to challenge it but the male coworker stood firm.
                              Quoth Sapphire Silk View Post
                              the male coworker stood firm.

                              *snicker*
                              PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.

                              There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!

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