By: Wugah
I lie very, very poorly. No, seriously – I suck at it.
Anyhow, with that said, I had been doing the 90 hour week thing for months on end at a startup company and the day after the CEO jumped on my ass about coming in at 10:00am one morning, I called in sick for the first time in my employ at this company (5 years)… And, since as you may recall I can’t lie for crap, I didn’t and simply called in “disinterested”. Nobody had anything to say when I showed up a few days later, and I never heard anything of it thereafter.
I highly recommend brutal honesty.
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November 8th, 2006 at 8:28 am
I love this one. I did something similar when I called work and simply said, “I have a lot of errands to run today and don’t really want to come in.”, I don’t know if they were just at a loss for words, but I got the O.K. !