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while 53 percent had gone in when sick when they thought the work wouldn’t otherwise get done, and 38 percent felt they couldn’t afford to miss a single day of work. That suggests that perhaps a different approach to management might squeeze out some additional productivity and improve wor...
is allowed. Lying to your boss is not allowed. So when you are too hung-over to work, just say, “I’m using a sick day.” Do not elaborate. Do not invent a “24-hour bug,”“crippling migraine,” or “food poisoning from leftover tacos.” Your excuses will sound fake, because...
know that I'll be a little late to the game tomorrow night. I have to work a few extra hours to finish a report. I should wrap things up sometime between seven and eight though. Oh, then I'm planning on dropping by Lisa's house for about an hour since she's been sick 嘿比尔...
When Calling in Sick Is Not EnoughDecember 30, 2007, 9:34 am I was tempted to title this post "markets in everything", but I just couldn't steal that moniker from the Marginal Revolution folks. USA Weekend has a story about the Alibi Network, which will, for a price of ...
I'm offering excuses to justify why I should buy this Transformer. To be fair, I've been using Windows 8.1 for a while and I've tested lots of tablets so I know it would serve me well. I wouldn't be taking a risk buying one so I might as well. If I can find one in stock ...
I didn’t take a sick day or leave of absence or anything. I went back to work. I buried myself in work. I went in to the office on weekends. I worked from “home” (the apartment in Vancouver that I was staying). I needed this ARG to work out. I even got my sister involved...
I'm sick of fighting physics every time I make a call from the couch If it's all, at the end of the day, about getting me to overpay for a phone number, then why not justget rid of the phone number— or at least marginalize it? The irony is that the LTE networks these carriers...