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Topic Name: Calling in Sick Excuses
Message Name: What's with SOUNDING sick?
Date Posted: 12/08/2001
In Reply To: But food poisoning works every time because you can talk normally and will be in tomorrow without much of a question.
Message: If there's one thing I find phony it's when someone calls in sick and sounds like he's calling from his death bed. Wasn't he laughing it up, and doing cartwheels around the office the day before? When I call in to say I have a headache or, that my eyes are swollen shut with cold I don't throw in a dry cough for good measure. What's the sense? With these fake and easily cureable illnesses you don't have to pretend to be sick if you return to work the next day.

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