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viola_monkey t1_j0jaamc wrote

Reply to comment by shellykachua69 in TIFU by falling sick after telling my boss that people lie about being sick to skip work by shellykachua69

If your boss is that person, odds are they e already noticed that person who is always out the 2nd Monday of the month. It could be legit. But if you bring it up again, be prepared to be hit with something along the lines of: maybe you need to more to do if you have all this time to keep up with the comings and goings of a colleague. But kudos to you for owning the karmic retribution!! Hope you feel better!

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Jotunn7 t1_j0iagws wrote

Reply to TIFU by falling sick after telling my boss that people lie about being sick to skip work by shellykachua69

Dude, if you're sick, call in sick.

Sure people lie about it, but its also a situation where someone could have caught food poisoning or a cold could have gone from "eh, stuffy nose" to "I'm vomiting and feeble". In either case, letting the person take the day off helps ensure it won't repeat again the next day. After all, if they are indeed sick and come in, now they're recovery is impeded and they may be sick longer, plus they probably were borderline useless that day anyway. If it does repeat to the point where its a serious issue, then they can be asked to get a doctor's note. That indicates whether its a chronic issue that needs accommodated, or if they've been lying they'll be in the next day.

Having been in retail before, I absolutely get being pissed that someone's called in sick *again*. It means more work for the people who are there, and it can't be scheduled or planned for. Even so, the real issue is always that whoever has been doing the scheduling and hiring is putting y'all on a skeleton screw staff. One person being absent should never be crippling to everyone else. If it is, then either someone else needs hired who can perform their tasks as well, or there's flat-out too little manpower available at the job to deal with unexpected events. Either one is a failure of the business/manager/scheduler not a failure of the absent person.

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No-Hippo5631 t1_j0i4dwn wrote

Reply to TIFU by falling sick after telling my boss that people lie about being sick to skip work by shellykachua69

I wake up 1.25 hours before work with a migraine sometimes. These are so bad I sometimes have to get my partner to text that I'm sick since I can't open my eyes without feeling like I'm getting hit in the head with a thick textbook, and have trouble going to the bathroom ,forget working, but luckily I vomit enough for 3 days so I barely have to go to the bathroom anyway due to dehydration and not keeping food (or pain meds) down. I would much rather just go be bored at work because hell is what I described, and I've just decided to go to the hospital a few times because I was still in constant unwavering pain 2 days in. So let's just say I'm feeling some schaudenfreude here, no offense OP but hopefully you'll be more understanding in the future bc you were kinda asking for this in a karmic sense.

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SteadyTag t1_j0hm975 wrote

Reply to TIFU by asking my father in law if he liked rapists… by [deleted]

Reminds me of my friend back when I was around 11. We were at the local bmx track and some kids had just arrived all dressed up in racing gear. The first thing my friend asked was “Hey are you guys racists?!”

I knew he meant racers but the those kids were like “What? No way man!”

Except my friend was a white canadian kid

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