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Everyone has days when they feel too sick to go to work. Many of us also have days when we need time off but aren’t actually sick. Sometimes, we may use sick days to cover the gap. It’s more common than you might think. A Zippia survey reports that 52% of respondents have faked sickness to get out of work. What's the best way to notify your manager that you won't be in? Whether or not you are actually sick, the process of calling in sick to work is the same. You want to let your boss know as soon as possible and keep the explanation of your illness (or fake illness) very brief.
Follow company policy and guidelines when there is a set protocol for calling out sick. Some companies have a limit on the number of sick days you can take or rules regarding who you should notify and when you need to advise the company that you won't be in. Not following those guidelines could be grounds for dismissal. Will you get paid for the time you are out sick? That depends. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not require payment for time not worked, including sick leave, personal leave, and vacation time. However, many employers provide paid sick days to employees. A Bureau of Labor Statistics Survey reported that 78% of civilian employees had access to paid sick leave in 2020. The BLS survey reports that, on average, workers in private industry received eight days of sick leave per year. Most workers with paid sick leave receive a set number of days per year. About a third have access to leave through a consolidated bank of paid time off. It's important to choose the right method for contacting your boss. While people use the phrase “call in sick,” you might not actually need to call your boss on the phone. Instead, you might send an email, a letter, or even a text. The Zippia survey reports that 53% of workers call in sick on the phone, while only 25% send a text. Regardless of why you’re calling in to work, observe a few guidelines: Let your boss know about your illness as soon as possible. If you are feeling ill the night before and know you won’t make it in to work, you can send your boss a message that evening. Otherwise, tell your boss first thing in the morning. Don’t go into great detail about your illness. No one wants to hear the specifics of your flu or stomach virus. Keep your message short and to the point. Consider sending another message to your department or team, letting them know that you will be absent. This is especially important if you are working on a team project or have a deadline coming up. Make sure they know you will not be available that day. Let your employer (and perhaps your team members) know if you will be able to respond to email or do any other work while you are home sick. If you are too sick to check your email, say so. Similarly, let your boss and your team know if there is any information they will need to know for that day. For example, you might tell your boss, “I am sorry I am missing the staff-wide meeting at 2 p.m., but Ellen should have all of the data from our department.” This kind of information will keep others from struggling in your absence. Make sure you know whether your company requires you to complete any sort of follow-up documentation. For example, some companies require employees to bring a doctor’s note to prove that they were ill. What if you don’t feel sick, but you simply need a day to relax and recharge? Your best option is to take a personal day. However, not all employers offer these. For example, many retail and other hourly jobs do not offer personal days. In that case, one option is to call in sick. If you do so, you will still want to follow all the same steps. However, there are a few more things you will want to keep in mind. It is easier to convince your boss you are really sick when you pick a random workday. However, if you pick a Monday or Friday (or a day right before or after a holiday), your boss might be suspicious that you are simply trying to extend your weekend. If you don’t care which day you take off, you might try a day between Tuesday and Thursday. Unless you are confident you can lie to your boss over the phone, you might want to avoid a direct conversation with him or her. Instead, send an email or text (whatever is preferable to your employer). If your boss would prefer a phone call, try calling early in the morning—it will increase your chance of being able to leave a voicemail instead of speaking to your boss directly. You always want to keep a call about your absence brief, but in this case, keep it very brief. The more you talk, the more you will be lying, and the better your chances are of getting caught. Simply say you are calling in sick. If your boss asks more questions, answer them, but keep your answers short. There are some excuses that work better than others when you need a day off from work, or when you need to leave work early. Don’t tell any of your coworkers that you were not really sick. Even if they are your friends, you run the risk that one of them might tell your boss (on purpose or even by accident). A lot of employees have gotten caught faking an illness due to social media. They say they are sick, then they post a picture of their day at the beach, and their boss finds out. Avoid posting anything about your fun day off on social media. This will prevent any information from getting back to your boss. After taking a day off work, you always want to work hard to catch up on any projects. This is especially the case if you took a secret personal day. Show your boss that you are still a committed team member who can work hard and get the job done.
The information contained in this article is not legal advice and is not a substitute for such advice. State and federal laws change frequently, and the information in this article may not reflect your own state’s laws or the most recent changes to the law.
Getting out of your super-cozy bed and going to work is never easy. Between contemplating life’s purpose to mindlessly scrolling TikTok with one eye shut because it just refuses to open, why would you ever want to leave? Even if you love your job more than anything, you’d probs still choose your sweet, sweet relaxation over back-to-back Zoom meetings. If you’re down to tell a small white lie believable enough to get you a lil weekday chill day, I’ve got you covered! It just takes a faux tailbone injury, a court hearing, some stitches opening up, a broken engagement, or being stuck in a ditch to do the trick. Before you start feeling guilty, I’m also here to remind you that if your employer gives you PTO days, Take! Them! Ditch that grind-until-you-die attitude that’s been drilled into our heads since we were bbs. Plus, we’re almost two years (730-plus actual MF days) into a global pandemic. Yeah. Every time I think about it, I just want to collapse into a little ball and rock around like a scared child. I think we ALL *Victoria Justice voice* deserve an extra day here and there to take a step back and deal with the mental stress of our current reality. But, ahem, depending on where you work, you still might need a more concrete excuse to get that going. So without further ado, below are very convincing stories that’ll easily snag you that get-out-of-work card. To all the bosses out there: I did nothing! (Please don’t come for me.) “My brother’s appendix ruptured.”“I was at work and my mom calls me freaking out that I had to meet my brother at the hospital because he was in searing pain, bent over crying, whatever. He thought it was because he had eaten bad sushi the night before. I meet him at Harvard hospital and it turns out his appendix had ruptured and he was rushed into emergency surgery. They wouldn’t let me stick around, so I spent the day at the park waiting for him to get out. Overall, it was a fine day for me, not so much for him. He’s totally fine though.” —Valentina, 24 “My Wi-Fi went out.”“Take your first morning call with your camera off and say your Wi-Fi is being finicky. Then after that call, say your Wi-Fi crashed and there are people there fixing it. They can’t expect you to use your hot spot unless you have a phone plan your work pays for. Luckily for me, I do not. The men weren’t able to fix it in a day so you get the day off, cheers!” —Valentina, 24 “My dog’s not feeling well.”“Please, please, please only use this one if you don’t actually have a dog. I can’t handle the idea of any negative juju in this department.” —Trina, 26 “For some reason, my hands are cramping.” “The one was somewhat based on the truth. I used to suffer from pretty bad hand cramps that made it hard to type…but not impossible. Anyway, my boss was [actually] satisfied when I told her it was the reason I needed a Friday off.” —Amanda, 23 “Someone slashed my tires.”“I walked outside to go to work on a Monday morning and I looked down and my tire was slashed. And someone decided to spray Gorilla Glue all over the side of my car. So yeah, happy Monday.” —Madison, 24 “I have to go to court.”“It was summer and I wanted to go to the beach during the week because it’s always crowded on weekends. I told my boss that I had to go court for a speeding ticket or I would get a warrant out for my arrest.” —Maria, 23 “My stitches opened up.”“I told my boss on a 98-degree day that my stitches opened up. I went to the beach instead.” —Jazz, 25 “I qualified for the state track championship.”“In high school, I told my boss I qualified for the state track championship, which meant I couldn’t come in AT ALL during the weekend to help restock. He was confused because I’d never once mentioned my elite running skills, but he let it slide. Fun facts: I didn’t qualify for state. Or participate in track. I could barely run a mile!” —Abby, 27 “My apartment is flooding.”“I actually made it all the way into the office but was just really not feeling it that day. So I texted my boyfriend to call me and he pretended he was our super. I told [my boss] that I needed to go home because a pipe burst in our apartment and I needed to be there to deal with stuff.” —Emily, 28 “I have to study for a midterm.”“In college, I emailed my boss saying I couldn’t make it to work because I had to study for a midterm. I played hooky to stay a night on the beach in Ventura, California.” —Quincie, 23 “I broke my tailbone.”“The night before the final episode of Game of Thrones aired, I called in and told my manager that I fell in the bathroom and injured my coccyx (it’s your tailbone). My boss was so concerned, she let me stay home for three days. I had enough time to watch my show and emotionally process it before going back to work.” —Malavika, 22 “I just got a root canal.”“I texted my boss that I had to have an emergency root canal the day before and wasn’t allowed to talk for two days! It worked!” —Pramita, 22 “I fell….”“I trip over nothing three times a day at work, so my boss knows I’m very accident-prone. So my go-to is always telling my manager that I fell and need to recover at home. One time I said that I fainted outside a train station, another time I fell down the stairs while trying to rush. At this point, my boss is pretty used to it.” —Anwesha, 23 “I have to help my sister move dorms.”“One weekend, I was scheduled to work but my boyfriend wanted to come visit me for the weekend. I called my boss and told him that I had to help my little sister, who’s in college, move into a different dorm last-minute. He thought it was nice that I was helping her, so he gave me the weekend off.” —Yasasvi, 22 “I skipped my allergy pill and rubbed my face all over my dog.”“Years ago, I had a job interview and wanted to take a sick day instead of a vacation day. The day before my interview, I skipped my allergy pill and rubbed my face all over my dog, knowing it would give me a terrible allergy attack. I spent all day at work pretending my allergy attack was an oncoming cold so no one would question my sick day!” —Mandy, 29 “I have hard-core bathroom issues.”“I’m a huge fan of the explosive diarrhea excuse. Just say, ‘I have a stomach bug’ or ‘I have food poisoning,’ and let their imaginations run wild.” —Roman, 29 This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. “In Buffalo, we use the line ‘I’m stuck in a ditch,’ and nobody ever questions it. There are lots of ditches for water runoff, lots of snow, and lots of ice on the roads. If you haven’t gotten stuck in a ditch, you’re probably a shut-in!” —Shayna, 21 “I’ve been up all night with a stomach bug!”“Here’s what you gotta do: Write and schedule an email to go to your manager in the middle of the night, like somewhere in the 2:30 a.m. to 5 a.m. window, that says, ‘Hey, I’ve been up all night with a bad stomach bug. I’m hoping this resolves quickly but I might need to call in sick tomorrow.’ Then send another email before work that says, ‘I’m still not better, I’ll be out today.’” —Caitlin, 25 “My bathtub fell through my ceiling.”“I decided to take a girls’ trip to Vegas for my BFF’s bachelorette party and told my boss that my bathtub fell through my ceiling and I would be out for three days because of the repairs. He totally bought it!” —Molly, 35 “My fiancé called off our engagement.”“I wanted to help my little sister move into her college dorm her freshman year; however, it required me taking off a Friday and I had already used all my vacation days. I called my boss the night before and told her that my fiancé and I called off our engagement and that I needed a day off. She felt so bad about it and told me to take as much time as I needed to mourn the loss of my relationship. I had to pretend three weeks later that we got back together and we were happily engaged again. My fiancé wasn’t too pleased about it!” —Karen, 30 “My cat got stuck on the side of the bathtub.”“One time, I told my boss that I would be late to work because my cat got stuck in the side of the bathtub and I needed to wait for the fire department to get him out—this story really did happen…but a few days earlier.” —Leah, 20 “It’s my half-sister’s grandma’s birthday.”“I wasn’t in the mood to go to work because it was such a beautiful day. So instead, I went to the Hamptons to start a long weekend and told my boss that it was my half-sister’s grandma’s birthday and that I would be out for the day.” —Ally, 27 “My cat is having kittens!”“I skipped work because my boyfriend surprised me with tickets to see Beyoncé and Jay-Z one summer. I ended up telling my boss that my cat was having her kittens and I needed to be there for emotional support.” —Kayla, 21 “I stubbed my toe really badly.”“I was already running super late to work and didn’t really feel like showing up. I decided to call up my boss and tell her that I stubbed my toe really badly and that it was swelling up. I’m a waitress, so I have to be on my feet all day. I added that I didn’t want to risk dropping any plates on customers, which totally helped me get out of work.” —Anna, 19 |
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