How I Skive Off WorkAdmit it. No one does any work these days. It's all looking at crappy websites with your thumb hanging over alt tab incase the boss walks over. Tell us your best methods of skiving, and any resultant incidents. (Maybe your slacking off has got someone sacked, or resulted in a large scale industrial accident.)
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rob, Wed 27 Apr 2005, 15:53)
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I worked with a guy we nicknamed Pfoobecause that was the noise he made as he sat down in his chair, just before he said, "If I feel like this tomorrow, I'm not coming in". He said this (and always exactly the same words) a lot, so we kept a spreadsheet to keep track. Every year he was precisely (to the day, without fail) one day short of the number of sick days you could take without having your pay docked.
It soon became apparent that there was a direct correlation between his sick days and when the cricket was on the telly. We could predict that next Wednesday he'd slump in his chair and say "if I feel like this tomorrow I'm not coming in" and then be off sick on Thursday.
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teedyay, Thu 28 Apr 2005, 14:23,
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