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Whether you’re sick or “sick,” the worst part of calling in to take a day off is deciding what time to get the message to your boss. What time do you call or email so that your boss actually believes you? Call too early, and there’s the chance your boss may think you’re still out drinking, but if you call too late, the chances that you’ve just overslept creep even higher. Thankfully, we now have the answer – the absolute best time for you to call in sick is Tuesday morning at 6:38 a.m.
Okay, yes, this is oddly specific, but that might actually play into your favor. You call exactly at 6:30, and there’s a good chance your boss knows you just set an alarm to give her a ring and fake a cough or two. Tuesdays are much more beneficial to call in than Monday or Friday, because there’s a much smaller chance that your boss thinks you’ve just taken a long weekend or needed to sleep off an exceptionally rowdy Sunday. Market research company Attest studied 1,000 employees to determine this exact date and time, so the next time you really want to sleep in, you may just want to give this a try.
Of course, if you’re calling in on a Tuesday, your boss likely saw you on Monday, so you have to be careful with your excuse, but thankfully Attest has your back there. If you call your boss and tell her that you’re having “stomach problems,” she’s more likely to believe you than with any other excuse. It’s truly a great one because not only does it not require a doctor’s note like strep or the flu, but there’s an absolute minimal chance that they press for further details. One last thing to make your call believable – wait until January to give this a try, because the study showed that employees are unsurprisingly most likely to call out in November and December due to holiday travel. Give this a try, and your boss will never doubt your sick calls again – just make sure you coordinate dates with your fellow PGPers in the comment section, because if they start to catch onto us, then we’re really screwed. .
[via Elite Daily]
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Just say you got food poisoning the night before. End of story.
Definitely used this one before.
“I’m not feeling well, I’m taking a sick day.” It’s definitely the quantity, not the quality of excuse of the sick day that matters to your employer and coworkers.
You should have allotted sick days anyway. Use them, no one really cares.
Definitely less animosity from the team for people who take a sick day than for the parents that come in looking like death, spreading their kids’ germs.
The “via Elite Daily” at the bottom invalidates this whole article.
What kind of place requires a doctor’s note to take a sick day? Is it an office or middle school homeroom?
Why even give a reason? I always just say I’m sick and won’t be coming In.
Exactly, I just don’t say what I’m sick of. I might be sick of this job, or sick of having to wake up in the morning, etc. I am sick so I’m not lying, I’m just not telling the whole truth
Why people have to work so hard to take a sick day that they are given is beyond me. If you call in sick once a month theres obviously an issue, but if you take a friday off during the summer when its nice out and nothing important is going on, no one is going to care.
This is the go to excuse.