As I'm sitting in my doctor's office waiting to get a flu swab, I thought I'd start a thread. I called in yesterday from the flu. The worst of it actually began tuesday, I had a fever Wednesday, and I still went to work. When I was still feeling pretty drained yesterday, I called in. My nurse manager used scare tactics with me and told me that I had to get tested to be sure it WAS the flu. That pissed me off. I have the right to give no excuse period. Anyhoo...
We've had threads where we've posted the funniest, dumbest and most amusing reasons people have given to call off. So I thought I'd start a thread asking....so what was the REAL reason you have called off when giving an excuse? This isn't meant to encourage unethical behavior, but I thought it would be fun.
One time I called in sick when the flu was going around because I had not had an ounce of sleep in 4 days. I had already called off for that before, and boy was my DON pissed. (I've suffered from crazy insomnia issues for years and have worked with my doctors to no avail.)
My managers clearly didn't get the severity of my sleep deprivation nor care how dangerous it would be for me to be on the floor with lives in my hands saying it was my responsibility to get proper sleep at night, as if I had control over it. So I wasn't about to say it was due to sleep again. So I called in sick saying I had the flu.
I have a good one from last night. I literally called off to...you know....do the deed with my husband because we are undergoing fertility treatments and all signs seemed to be pointing to last night. My doctor even said, if you want a baby....you better call off tonight....so I did. I can't believe it. I better get a kid out of this LOL
I called out once because I was flooded in and couldn't get out of my neighborhood. It was completely true. I measured the water and my car to see how high it would come up. There was no way I could have made it out. I felt really bad. We had never flooded like that before, nor since.
When I was MUCH younger, before I was a nurse but I was a nurse's aide (this was so long ago it was before the "C" before the "NA") I was living with a couple of guys and one of them had an old high school buddy come to visit. Well, the buddy brought some lysergic acid diethylamide, and we all partook, and as I watched the sun coming up over the river I realized it would not have been a good idea to go to work.
(The buddy has retired after a glorious career as a hot-shot cardiologist in a major medical center, another is faculty at an internationally-famous law school, another is a civil engineering manager in a major US city, I have a modestly successful nursing business .. .in short, drugs don't always lead to a life of crime and debauchery :) But sometimes they do lead to call-outs... )
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MPKH, BSN, RN
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Mental health days, actually sick and I've called in when my back hurts. Oh and lack of sleep.