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Kitai

Kitai

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isn't it sod's law you take a sickie (which i did on saturday) and then get ill a day later. had to call in today and say i felt much worse even though i only have a streaming cold. they will wonder what is up with me taking so much time off for a cold! :cry:

Aww, sorry to hear you're ill. But, to be blunt; you got what you deserved really. I really hate it when people pull sickies. It effects everyone else that works with you because (depending on where you work, I suppose) they have to do your work for you eventhough you're fully capable of doing it yourself.

Also, if you take the day off eventhough you're not sick, someone else may really be sick that day, but are likely to be denied time-off because you've got there first and they can't afford to be another staff member short.

Plus, if people take sickies, the managers tend to get fed-up with their staff taking the p*ss, and then whenever someone wants a real sick day, they can be looked upon suspiously and treated differently (sometimes harshly) because the managers now don't know who they trust anymore and are fed-up with being taken for mugs.

Karma has come back to bite you in the ass, hun. :P

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E*F*4L

E*F*4L

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it will always come back at you, but you are now ill & when you go back you will still have some sniffles, so it will look like you were telling the truth, & also by have the day off before, the cold was still manifesting inside you & you could have passed it on to someone else at work, so you did the right thing all along :) just treat yourself to a nice cream cake & don't worry about it.

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Kitai

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Better than being one of those inconsiderate tossers that thinks it's clever to come into work ill and infect everyone else.

I hate it when you're forced to stay at work when you're sick, and you infect everyone else, and then the manager complains the next week when most of the staff are off sick. If they'd had just let you, one person, leave when you asked, then they'd not have like five people off now at the same time.

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i used to love being ill when i was a kid. it was always best when it ran up to a friday so i didn't have to go back the next day. yeah, i was coughing to death but it was worth it when i was was lying down watching the tv instead of being in that hell hole.

although i admit i never found it funny when i got ill in the holidays, i still do now for some reason. even though i left school 3 and a half years ago.

on the grid.

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When mrs sinister worked in a shop she was for ever ill from infected customers. The public are disgusting aren't they?;):D

Imagine if one of these viruses was terminal? The business ethics of management would be responsible for the slaughter of thousands.

'The light at the end of the tunnel was the light of an oncoming train'

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