Awww man!
That is a bad start to the day. If I was you, I'd write it off. Tell the boss you've heaved your guts up in the loos and you need to go home. Go home. Get your head down for a nap then go pick up sproglet at normal picking up time.
( jenpots, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:25, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

You know how to skive
I like it
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:28, Reply)

Hheheeh
been there with the tiny sproglets. Thankfully mine are 10 and 6 now, so I very rarely get a sleepless night.
( jenpots, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:30, Reply)

Unless they bring home some crack

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:30, Reply)

pfft!

( jenpots, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:34, Reply)

So much easier for the ladies to skive
My colleague does it all the time.

I'm so poor at acting (and so spineless) that I've not had any time off sick in 3 years.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:36, Reply)

Time off sick is for wimps as is lunch
Unless you are highly contagious or bleeding profusely you should go to work.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:37, Reply)

^^ This
If I'm physically able to get in, and am not going to be a danger to others, I'll go in.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:40, Reply)

This kind of attitude to work is the cancer that's killing Britain
and more importantly makes me look bad.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:42, Reply)

Good, I want to kill Britain

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:43, Reply)

But we have to fix Bwwoken Bwwitain*!
'Dave' said so!

*_{It's hard to spell that flappy-lipped not-quite-an-r-not-quite-a-w sound that those spotty oik Etoncunts make; any suggestions are welcome.}
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Brwoken?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:51, Reply)

Probably.
It's just difficult to put into phonetics the way their lips clap together as they speak.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:53, Reply)

Fuck that
I'm a workshy cunt.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:41, Reply)

I'm the same, I have about one sick day a year
and that's usually down to migraines, which make me unable to see and so I couldn't get to work if I wanted to.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:43, Reply)

I occasionally have a day off due to migraines,
I don't get migraines.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:48, Reply)

Tut tut
you're giving we genuine sufferers a bad name!

To be fair, I rarely get them, maybe one or two a year, but they really fucking hurt when they do come to town.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:51, Reply)

An ex of mine used to get severe ones
which meant she could barely speak or remember things, weird stuff.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 11:56, Reply)

I occasionally experience the same symptoms
of sore head, lack of memory and inability to speak. But it's usually caused by drink.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 12:02, Reply)

Migraines don't necessarily mean a headache
that's a rookie mistake in skiving, as is putting on an ill voice when you call in.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 12:03, Reply)

I have a different technique
I make every effort to go into work if I'm ill, and on several occasions have been sent home. That way, everyone knows I'm not skiving. If I'm really ill, I take time off. That sometimes happens.

But it also means that if I do skive for a bit, everyone assumes I'm really ill...
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 12:07, Reply)

This is true.
I usually get a 30 minute headache warning when my sight starts to go. It'll start like when someone takes a picture and the flash stays in your sight for a few seconds. I'll realise that I'm reading something but I can't see the actual word in front of me, just the ones either side of it. Then I lose my peripheral vision, I can wave a hand at the side of my head and not see it. That's when I know I need to go and find a dark room and try and get to sleep before the headache arrives. Although having said that, sometimes it's a false alarm and I just lose my sight for a few hours. It always surprises me how bad I am at navigating around my flat when I can't see, you'd think I would know it well enough by now.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 12:36, Reply)