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Did You Know

Kachina624 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:43:08 GMT

Having difficulty getting up in the morning is a condition called Dysania.

Try calling your boss and telling him/her you wont be in because you're suffering from Dysania. Hang up quickly before questions can be asked.

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Desertdi — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:54:19 GMT

@Kachina624

When I worked the overnight shift...you wouldn't believe HOW MANY employees tried calling off for the day shift in the middle of the night.

I had to tell them they needed to call their MANAGERS (and yeah, I had their phone numbers) di

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KKlim — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 16:24:46 GMT

@Kachina624..lol…

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jlkz — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 16:54:06 GMT

@Desertdi

I ran the midnight shift in the medium scale computer room for about 18 months and never got one phone call from anyone to cancel their first shift job.

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Desertdi — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:07:08 GMT

@jlkz wrote:
@Desertdi

I ran the midnight shift in the medium scale computer room for about 18 months and never got one phone call from anyone to cancel their first shift job.

@jlkz I was in the overnight business office of a resort with more than 1,000 employees. And....I wasn't allowed to accept employee call-offs, Guest cancellations, YES....but employees had to speak with someone in their own department.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 19:45:39 GMT

@Desertdi. 5hat is as it should be, talk to the supervisor.

I was an area manager with a state agency and heard some remarkable imaginative excuses. My favorite was a playboy type who couldn't come to work bcause he couldn't remember where he left his shoes. I told him to get his act together and get to the office.

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Desertdi — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 20:16:21 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Desertdi. 5hat is as it should be, talk to the supervisor.

I was an area manager with a state agency and heard some remarkable imaginative excuses. My favorite was a playboy type who couldn't come to work bcause he couldn't remember where he left his shoes. I told him to get his act together and get to the office.

@Kachina624 It always amazed me that workers "thought" they could just leave a message with "whoever answered the phone"....

I had some "unusual" calls myself. One woman demanded to speak with the "General Manager". I explained that he would be there in the morning. She said she was his wife and KNEW he was there. I asked for her name.....and the hubby was a bell boy.......

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Susan345 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 20:25:27 GMT

For years I worked for a company that had no sick days. The only acceptable excuse was your own death.

We used to joke that if you died on the job they would hold the body until the end of your shift.

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Desertdi — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 20:44:13 GMT

@Susan345 wrote:
For years I worked for a company that had no sick days. The only acceptable excuse was your own death.

We used to joke that if you died on the job they would hold the body until the end of your shift.

@Susan345 My employer was not quite so strict. "Life Support" was also a legitimate excuse.... di

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meallen616 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 21:03:01 GMT

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Pixie12 — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 06:41:08 GMT

I can remember an employee on vacation calling in to their boss and asking for extra days. She got them.

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on the bay — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 09:29:43 GMT

@Susan345,

Gosh that must have been the same company I worked for once! The only excuse was to call in dead!

Funny but not really. One year when a really bad flu or something hit the area, an elderly man who had been there for years and had never taken a sick day, was out for a week with this illness or whatever was hitting so many. The company made him sign that form that had to be signed that he was on record for excessive sick days. That's when I knew I could never continue to work for a company like that.

Another time in a school, the principal actually told us to use all the sick leave days we could before the end of the year because they would just be lost if we didn't take them. So they weren't accumulative. I was amazed at that! I would never have thought anyone would say that or encourage us to do that. He told us he did it himself all the time. Well, after all those years, I guess it was nice of him to tell us that. Still, it just felt kind of dishonest to me. I would have appreciated it more if we were never felt to feel bad or that we weren't really sick when we called in when we were actually sick, as few as those may have been.

I'm sure people abuse sick days, but there are many who don't.

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San Antonio Gal — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 11:48:11 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:

I had some "unusual" calls myself. One woman demanded to speak with the "General Manager". I explained that he would be there in the morning. She said she was his wife and KNEW he was there. I asked for her name.....and the hubby was a bell boy.......

@Desertdi - This is too funny!

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Roscoe the Rascal — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:31:33 GMT

I have never called in sick in 28 years.

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Susan345 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:17:17 GMT

@on the bay

This company did pay higher wages than any others. Taking a job with them was like signing your soul over to the devil.

Fortunately we did have a union that was our saving grace. Eventually they did relax the attendance policy but only because it was a federal requirement.

One day they called a meeting and told us the office was moving to the next state over. We had the option of going with the job or find a new one.

I chose to go and it was the best decision I ever made. In the end I put up with their ****** long enough to retire with a good pension.