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 don't think I need a reason to call off. Leave time is to be used at the discretion of the employee, unless abused then it becomes a management issue.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
Well we are a boring lot. I called in when my dog died. Actually I sat on the couch crying and shaking for two days. He was my best friend for 14 years.
I called in sick when my dog died, too. He was a member of my family. So I called in for "death in the family."
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
Now, back to topic. I guess I'm pretty boring in the call in excuse department. I hadn't called in in literally years, so long ago I can't remember the last time. Just a few weeks ago I called in because of a plumbing issue. Of course the pipe burst on a weekend and I had to turn off the water until I could get a plumber in, so no water all weekend and a call in Monday to stay home and get it fixed.
Yeah, I called in once when my water heater flooded my entire house and I woke up and stepped on a squishy carpet getting out of bed. I didn't give a reason, just said I was "sick".
I also called in sick for no sleep -- I'd been working nights for a week and slept about 45 minutes each day. On the last day of my 5 day stretch, I was hallucinating. I called in to ask what time it was, and evidently the conversation was such that the charge nurse thought I'd be a detriment to the patients and told me to stay home.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
As a CNA, I once went home "sick" because my fiance showed up on my floor about 20 minutes into my shift to let me know the woman he was having an affair with was two floors up, having his baby.
I can sympathize with that. I called in sick when I found my husband in bed with the neighbor -- it took me a few days to get it together enough to go back to work. I kind of felt like I'd been kicked in the stomach. I called in for a whole weekend when my second husband tried to kill me . . . my assistant nurse manager came 300+ miles to pick me up from the side of the road where he'd left me and she and her fiance spent the whole weekend helping me move out of the house. As far as I know, she never said anything to the manager.
I can sympathize with that. I called in sick when I found my husband in bed with the neighbor -- it took me a few days to get it together enough to go back to work. I kind of felt like I'd been kicked in the stomach. I called in for a whole weekend when my second husband tried to kill me . . . my assistant nurse manager came 300+ miles to pick me up from the side of the road where he'd left me and she and her fiance spent the whole weekend helping me move out of the house. As far as I know, she never said anything to the manager.
6 months ago I got the all AT work that my mom had found my dad on the kitchen floor - I was so out of it I couldn't figure out how to shut my dialysis machine off....so yea that was a 4 day call off....and just 2 weeks ago I called in for 2 days straight with low grade fever, sinuses that wouldn't quit dripping (or stuffing) and a cough you could hear down the street...
Specializes in MCH,NICU,NNsy,Educ,Village Nursing.
Bronchitis so bad I could barely breathe and had a fever. No way was I going to compromise my patients or fellow workers. My mom died unexpectedly. I threw my back out, could not stand straight (the straightest I could stand was with my back at about 45 deg), no pain med worked, and the doctor said my back was gone for anything over 50 lbs.
I once called in sick, but in fact I was the healthy one. My oldest child was just released from the hospital for meningitis and still needed care, my youngest spiked a fever that day of 103, and my husband announced that he had reached the end of his coping skills, was feeling depressed and took off to bed too exhausted to get up.
I felt guilty that I couldn't go to work the next day, but my family needed me more.
I called out a few times before I left a job (I did put my two weeks notice in). I was juggling getting the new job, going to school and leaving the old job.
Truly sick (flu) or mentally needing rest from work stress. Once for no babysitter. Funerals of parents, although I used bereavement time, not sick time.
ItsThatJenGirl, CNA
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He did me a huge favor by knocking her up well before the wedding. :)