You Just Need a Day Off

How to Call in Sick when You Just Need a Day Off Prepare an alibi. Before you call your boss, get your excuses ready. Look up the symptoms of the flu on the internet and note the most common ones. If you need to figure out how to manufacture a doctor's note, start the process before calling in sick. While you're at it, it's a good idea to log off any social media sites that you might be tempted to visit on your "sick day." That way, your boss won't stumble over photos http://www.tfjewelrysales.net/ of you hiking in the middle of your supposedly debilitating illness or leaving comments that raise suspicions of good health. If you call your boss, make it a short one. Remember, stories are typically the embellishment told by liars. Don't get too detailed--just say that you're not feeling well and won't be coming in. Give just enough information for your boss to believe you, such as saying "I was up all night sick" or "I'm having awful stomach problems." If you're female, say hesitantly, "feminine/woman's problems." That should be sufficient to fend off further discussion. Be prepared for questions. Is your boss the nosy type? Try to imagine what kinds of questions he or she might have. For instance, if you work in food service, your boss might wonder how contagious you are. He or she might also ask if http://tfjewelrysales.net you've tried everything possible to make yourself feel well enough to come in. The best policy is to say that you think you're contagious, and that you've tried every remedy you can muster (painkillers, antacids, more liquids, etc.) but all to no avail. Casually mention you've called your doctor's office and are waiting to hear back on an appointment time as they're booked out. During peak cold and flu seasons, it may be several days before they could squeeze you in for an office visit. If your employer demands a note after you get back, you can always say your appointment isn't until later in the week. It gives you time to run to the doctor. Try not to call in "sick" on too many Mondays or Fridays--extended weekends tend to stick out in the minds of bosses and coworkers. Calling out on the occasional Tuesday is more credible. Also, do not make a habit of taking leave on Cheap Tiffany Bracelets important days like the day the team needs to work extra time to meet the deadline. This risks damaging your relationships with your colleagues, especially if any of them suspect you're faking it. Build up a reputation. Go to work when you're really sick, so your boss won't think you're faking when you decided to play sick to get out of working. Once you're shoved out the door a few times for being deathly ill (and infectious) at work, your boss will be thankful when you do call in sick and think you've finally taken everyone's advice to stay at home. If you have to take care of urgent business but still want a day off, turn up for work in the morning. Take care of what you need to, and be quiet. If anyone asks what's up, just say you don't feel well. When you've decided to leave, simply approach your boss and say you're ill and going home. Don't ask, tell. Explain that you've taken care of all the urgent work for today, and there is nothing your boss can do to say no. If you actually are sick and you need to get a doctor's note for work, ask for a "return to work" further away than you'll really need. Then go back to work "early", before the note says you should return. This makes you look like a dedicated employee who uses less sick time than necessary. It also provides documentation that you can point to in your employment record, should your use of sick time ever be questioned in the future. (Note that some companies will not let you return to work without being released from care. If you try to return to work before the date stated on your note, your employer will probably send you back home.) Do not "schedule" a sick day in advance. If your boss finds out that you let people know two weeks ago that you were going to be sick today, you could lose your job. If you go to the beach on your day off, don't forget the sunscreen. Showing up to work the next day looking like a lobster can be embarrassing, not to mention incriminating. If you have children, they can be a very handy excuse for missing a day of work. Then again, you might regret not having the added time to stay home when they are sick, so be careful with this one. If you live in New Zealand, take advantage of food safety regulations if you work in service. Regulations state that you must be cleared of diarrhea symptoms at least 24 hours after you are cleared of any symptoms. You might as well use up the whole two days rest. In the UK, the Food Standards Agency expects employers of "food handlers" to exclude these employees from work for 48 hours after symptoms of vomiting or diarrhea have ceased; a 24 hour sickness bug could mean three days off work. Of course, if really have diarrhea, this may not be of any consolation to your weakened self! An apparent 40 percent of Americans have called in sick to enjoy a summer's day, pursuing what is known as "seasonal absence syndrome".[1] Most employers have a no-fault absentee program. Check with your company's human resources department to see how yours stacks up. Under a no-fault absentee program, you are penalized whether you have a doctors slip or not. So watch out calling off, your job may depend on it. In the United States, by federal law, employers with over 50 people have to fill out "FMLA", Family Medical Leave Act for yourself or a dependent. If you claim an FMLA day and are caught abusing the leave, you can be instantly terminated. Do not use an excuse about someone in your family dying because the boss can find out for sure and you will be caught in a lie. This will make you less credible to your boss when someone really does die. Ultimately, if you're in need of a day off work more times than you can count, reassess the job you're in. It may be that you can't stand what you're doing and you're actually ruining your health through worry, anxiety and resentment. In this case, you need to think long and hard about changing jobs or even career path.