Don't call in sick, Call in dead

if i am really do not want to work some time,i just pay a phone to my boss and tell him i have something urgent on hand.but i do not want to tell him what it is. and he have learnt to that so that he never asked me what reason cause it?

I've called in hung over before. I just told my boss I can come in and be worthless or I can stay home and be worthless. I didn't have anything pressing that day, so I just took a personal day.

i'm working at a BPO and there are a lot of people in the floor who do the same work as me, so a missing person a day will not be much of a liability to the company except during tax seasons (when almost everyone has to work more than 12 hours). few of my officemates, they are being asked to take doctor's prescriptions and come half of the day. whenever i call, and a supervisor would tell me he/she will not approve my leave because mine's not a valid reason, i'd just say, "i won't file that as paid leave, anyway. whether you approve it or not, i won't force myself to come to work. i don't want a negative service issue (where the company pays a lot for every content errors), i'm sure you don't like that too." i heard from few of my officemates that they are being asked to take doctor's prescriptions and come half of the day. worse, they require you medical certificate if you wanted to file it as paid leave. we have this policy that you need to call every time you'll be absent. thus, if you're confined to a hospital, you have to call daily until you're discharged finally. you have to give notice during the whole duration of your sickness. and only one week of our advance notice or vacation leaves are approved. sometimes, only 2 days. and it's never really likely to call your manager when you wanted to leave work, because no reason is valid for them. they're so annoying that sometimes even if i so not wanted to come to office, once i think about talking to any of them, i'm always changing mind almost instantly.

Erilyn, you are so funny! I wouldn't have thought to try that excuse. You know it isn't going to work. Maybe you should have used another type excuse, 24 hour stomach virus or something. Now, he couldn't have disproved that one.

Oh wow. That was hilarious. Thanks for the laugh!

Family emergency. It always works. A co-worker of mine used it a few times before and it has gotten her out of going in for her shift. She never has to explain exactly what was happening, either. Seems like a way better excuse to me than just being sick. Most jobs expect you to work while sick anyway.

i am a workaholic. ther are times when i go to work even if i am sick. that really was difficult but i try to keep on. but there are times when i am really sick and can't get off from my bed. i do try to call my boss, just like you, and tell him i cannot make it. after explaining everything, he still wanted me to go to work. ofcourse, i won't listen to him. i just stay at home and get some rest i needed. by the time i went back to work, i saw his frowning face the whole day.

I'm working as a manager in my company and number of people working under me. I get all sorts of irrelevant reasons from many people. Sometime I feel like I can write a book on excuses to skip office.

Good try, lol at least you have a good sense of humor and points for trying. I have never called off sick from work, unless I was really sick. Although I do know a couple of the guys that have 'called off sick' for the next day! WOW, didn't know that I was also working with psychics lol.

well, i've been a manager in my previous work and i've heard all sorts of excuses. from the valid ones up to the real outrageous ones. as a manager, i'm pretty lenient when people ask for day-offs but i do set a line. right now in my present work, i'm part of management and usually, people look for me when they can't report for work. they give a lame excuse and right off the bat, i know that they're lying through their teeth. i just tell them to make sure to "get well" so that they can report for work the next day.

i dont use an excuess i just call in and say i am not coming in but right now i dont have to call in because i work for myself.

No excuses, go to work! Once an emplyee called me, as the acting supervisor, to tell me he was sick as a dog and couldn't come to work that night. In the background you could definitely hear the music and people loudly having a party! I gave him the night off, because he was my friend, otherwise I would have chewed his butt and told him to leave that party and come to work Guess your manager didn't have that great a sense of humor

I know people who regularly call in saying they have 'eaten something' which has given them a bad stomach...its usually a hangover! I also heard of someone who said he had to take time off to visit his sister who'd just had a baby. He gave the name and weight of the baby, the town he was going to etc and accepted all the congratulations on becoming an uncle - before setting off for a weekend away... he didnt have a sister. I think your boss should have given you the day off ..... instead I see he thought it would be more appropriate to give you the 'graveyard' shift!

Being in management I often get people phone in with excuses, and some of the best have been 'I am stuck out on the island and the next boat back is not for 3 days' and 'We have had a tree come through our front room window' Both were by the same person and completely true. Most of the excuses though are sickness/diarroeah (we have a 48 hr clearance policy being a children's day nursery, headaches/migraines (9 out of 10 times is hangover, as I find out they have been out the night before) and no sleep at all as 3 of them are mums to babies. The best genuine one I had was the bath had overflowed, doing all my electrics and I had to wait in for the electrics to be sorted out. They were done after an hour, but I stayed off all day.

yeah u're right. my excuse is my wife is in ward and prepare to born me a big son. rox.