R3V.....i need thy help. (best excuse to get the day off)

[McGyver]

Fake a pregnancy

fixed.

[Axxe]

This thread is exactly why society today is fucked.

[JGood]

This thread is disgusting. Farbin said it best. Our grandparents would be sickened by this mentality.


Your "friends that are like family" are in town, and you find out the day of (they don't even tell you)? Sounds like you should definitely give up your job for them.

Life is to short and don't waist it on a part time job that will never get you anywhere. If this were you career than that's a different story. I would call off, hang with your buddies, and go back to work the next day and then start looking for a better job.

Your career starts with your first job. It will never get you anywhere if you don't take it anywhere. But, that mentality is what every kid has these days, so I'm not surprised to hear it.

Fuck if you don't want to go to work, call him up and tell him you can't come in. The next day call again and say you still can't come in. Most places count 2 consecutive call ins as one anyways. You don't have to tell him anything except that you won't be there.

LOL, spoken like someone who has never had a real job, still lives at home with their parents, and one day will get a serious wake up call. YOU are what is wrong with this country. You'll probably be the one to join a union one day and strike for your ability to call in for days at a time with no reason given, then the work will be outsourced, and we'll all be out of jobs. That is, if you ever move on from McDonald's.

[euro2fast4u]

thought of it last night. tell him you got the chicken pox

[hotghias]

Sounds like you'd be causing a pretty big problem by calling in sick since they don't have anybody to replace you. Right thing to do would be man up and ask for a day or two off to see your friends. If rejected, go to work knowing you did the right thing and probably earned some respect for having the balls to ask and the decency to go in to work anyway.

[CabbE30]

^^Made that job yo bitch son

[slammin.e28]

Work to live, don't live to work.

I usually get sent home if I'm sick, unless it's some crazy contagious shit, then I call in. I hate missing work 'cause I know everyone else will have to work harder to cover for me as well. Also, my shit gets messed up and I have to re-organize my department when I get back.

That said, I called in all the time when I worked at a grocery store. If I was mad at someone, call in. Hungover, call in. Tired, call in. Never got in trouble or anything......but I was the best they had. I dropped back from 40 hours a week to four, and nailed all three weeks of my vacation in a row, then quit....but I had another job I'd held for 6 months by then. I just had to stick around to get my next up in vacation time, from two to three weeks.

[m73m95]

I will say that I am on the "Go the F to work. Have a work ethic. You can hang with your friends another time." side.... however....

Having that kind of work ethic myself, I have missed some very important things I really wish I was there for. Kids first steps, first words, never took the time for a honeymoon with my now ex-wife....etc, etc, etc.

I do regret choosing work over "life"..... You work to have money to live life, but if you miss out on life because of the work, what have you gained?

Its all a matter of priorities. If this is a once in a lifetime thing, skip work. If its just a fun time, I would choose work...... The only one who can make that decision is you.

[Pantless Spency]

I don't enjoy mine. Haha. I'm looking to get a new job. But I won't give up this one till I am hired somewhere I'd much rather be.

[Mercury[BKM]]

Im a workaholic too, if you don't have a job you can do every day, all day, then you need a new job that you enjoy and is fun =)

[mrsleeve]

Jesus man take a holiday, that's the extreme opposite of the spectrum and isn't any better IMO. Your personal health should be more important than your job.

lol I get my time off when the job is done. I got 5 weeks straight off after that trip.

[Farbin Kaiber]

OP, just be honest, see if he can help you out. if not, see if your buddies can drive up to you and you all go out for some drinks.

I'm really thinking if someone would post a thread like this, they likely live at home with mommy and daddy, and also, likely are not old enough to go out to drink.

[Raxe]

just a little comparison here. I have never missed a show up for a day of work, and can count on 1 hand how many days I have been late, in the last 15 years. I have been sent home for being too sick to be there.

Also I have worked 12-16 hour days 7 days a week for almost 7 months with less than 5 days off in that time though the holiday season.

So saying you never missed a day of work at this job, is kinda a cop out IMO. Sorry....

Jesus man take a holiday, that's the extreme opposite of the spectrum and isn't any better IMO. Your personal health should be more important than your job.

[Ultraviolet]

seriously tell them you got mad shits and cant keep your cookies down.

buy some epicac, laxatives and go to town ;P

[bernzpeed]

Just ask him for a day off to study for an exam or do research for a paper. All other excuses, like quitting is stupid. It's hard to find jobs these days and quitting is just irresponsible.