Calling in sick to work

How do you do it? Do you call? Text? Does it make you nervous? I always feel like I have to prove myself.

• I always call 30 minutes before I''m supposed to come in. Im always nervous too.

• I always send an email. Calling in is so 20th Century.

• Call in several hours before to give enough time for them to cover shift

• R3, not all of us work retail.

• Do it just after you wake up. Your voice will be all scratchy; you will sound awful.\ \ If you will be home all day, let them know that they can call me if they have any questions.

• Yeah, I''m with the OP. I could be at death''s door and I would feel guilty and think I had to prove I was really sick.

• I wonder where Cheryl works.

• Ir you''re really sick, no need to be nervous or feel guilty. If you just want a mental health day, you shouldn''t worry about that either. Everybody needs one now and then. If this is your fourth mental health/sick day in a row on a Monday, then you just look like you party too hard on the weekend. Monday''s

• I''ve been on both sides, mostly as a manager.%0D\ %0D\ Keep it simple, minimal details. It''s better to actually speak to your manager as close to the start of the work day as possible or, leave a vmail then call back early.%0D\ %0D\ Sudden emergencies are better.

• I text my boss when I can''t make it to woork. He actualy prefers texting to talking so that works out well, especialy when I''m%0D\ not really sick

• I email and say I won''t be in today. See you tomorrow.

• At my company, our department sends an email. Simple as that - no need to detail your ailment/s. Unless it''s something rather serious and your out multiple days, then your obliged to call your manager.

• There is no need to provide any details at all unless you cross your company/state short term disability threshold.

• My former job required us to call in personally. I always called the minute I woke up (yep, the scratchy-voice strategy), said I would not be able to make it in today, and avoided details. %0D\ %0D\ Now that I work for myself I roll just over, tell the cat he''s on his own for breakfast, and go back to sleep.

• Always call 15 minutes to half an hour before your boss is known to come in. \ \ I think the best time is to call right when you wake up, you sound groggy without having to "act sick".\ \ And never go into detail. A simple "I''m not feeling well" is enough. If probed later on, have some nasty TMI details which guarantee they''ll be unlikely to want to probe you further.

• Well, Mr. Busy-Body @ R7, I work from home for a call center. GUESS WHY!?!?! Oh, and I also do volunteer work for DL. I keep Mr. Editor informed.

  Cheryl

• \ You just clutch your pearls and start coughing before you dial.

• I hit of poppers right before calling will give you that disconnected, vacant, medicine head.

• If you call in on Mondays, we just figure you are hung-over from the weekend. Call-in on Fridays and we know you want to start the weekend early.%0D\ %0D\ Call in too many Mondays and you will never get promoted and be high on the list for the next round of layoffs.

  Your Manager

• I''ve never missed a workday you pussy.

  Charlie Sheen, still winning with Adonis DNA

• My office actually has a call-out phone line. You call the line and notify and HR frau in a different and she sends an email alerting your department head of your absence.

• E-mail. Why get on the phone if it's unnecessary?

• I can work from home, so these days I can just say not feeling well, don't want to give it to anyone at work, so I'll be working from home. I sign on and dick around a bit for an hour here or there so the company system shows I signed on from home. The rest of the time, I'm "reading" hard copies. Basically I watch TV all day.

• Flush the toilet into the receiver.

• it's like masturbation. everyone does it but don't always admit to it. think about that before you make your call whether you're really sick or faking it.

• Union members at Verizon must speak their immediate supervisor. No voice mail, texts, email or leaving a message with whoever is passing and picks up the phone.

• "I have explosive diarhhea" is more of a threat than spreading the flu. They'll be glad you won't be in.

  HR

• Whenever somebody calls in sick on a Monday, my first thought is "alcoholic."