Appease my curiousity, please.

[featherynscale]

I woke up this morning feeling vaguely like I'd been hit by a bus. I wandered around, took a shower, wondered if I were ill and should call in to work, and then I realized that I wasn't ill, I was just mad. And I don't think one can call in mad to work, which is sort of a shame. Might cut down on office shooting sprees. I wasn't that mad, of course, but you get the idea.

Anyway, this reminded me of redbelle27's icon about calling in queer. And that made me wonder. I've never successfully called in for anything other than illness, car trouble, or flights delayed/stuck out of town. I've faked it, but even then, I faked one of those things. Have any of you lot ever successfully called in for anything unusual? Called in crazy? Called in dead? "Too mellow to be bothered to go to work today"?

Also, how come there's a mood icon for "crappy", but not one for "interested" or "intrigued"?

Comments

You can pick an appropriate icon

[ottercat.livejournal.com]

say, curious, and change the text for it...

Re: You can pick an appropriate icon

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know -- I do that all the time.

I'm just thinking that the pre-generated mood set, the mood canon, if you will, runs overwhelmingly to the negative. It includes seventeen ways to say "mad" and three to say "happy". I think, anyway.

Of course I'm going to have to go count them and compare now. That will be me, can't stand not to know things.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

When I was working the phones I called dispatch once and said I was in a horrible mood and send me all the guys who wanted to be dominated or called names. After a wonderful day of calling guys "putrid crawling worms not worth licking my toes" and getting paid for it, my mood improved considerably.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

When you say "working the phones", what does that mean in your world? Because I'm pretty sure I never got to call people putrid crawling worms in any of my previous phone jobs :)

It sounds like your phone job was better than my phone jobs, though.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I worked on a phone sex line for several years:)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That's nifty. Was it fun? Does it pay worth a damn?

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure how to keep an answer to those questions succint. It's a book.. but I'm going to say for number one.. was it fun? It had it's moments and I have some funny stories.

Does it pay- I had a very good boss. There are a lot of rip off places on the net and one has to be very careful. However, my experience was great, she was fair with the money, we got extra if we were requested etc. So, working for her, the money was good, especially considering there were no real expenses, no special clothes, the calls were dispatched in so no long distance... so it worked well for me.

Does this count?

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

On Monday nontacitare said she really needed to go into work and get things done, but didn't feel like it.

So I wrote her a note:

To whom it may concern:
Please excuse Dr. nontacitare from work today. It is a gray day not suitable for going out in.
Signed, rfunk

She didn't go to work that day.

(Maybe I should mention that she's a professor and it's now between semesters.)

Re: Does this count?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's lovely! It totally counts.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Why were you mad?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Because I'm not enlightened enough to blow things off, I imagine.

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

I called into New York Telephone and told them that I needed to take a personal day.

They asked me why, and I told them that I had handled a 6-car pileup as a EMT last night, and after I got off duty from the ambulance corps, I had started drinking.
Told them I could not come to work, as I was too drunk to drive the drillrig. (or anything else)
-=-
There was more than one reason I ceased being a medic.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Wow.

As an experience, that's awful. As a story about unlikely reasons to call in to work, though, it's pretty good.

Hugs, cookies, and stress-tabs to you, my friend.

Also, how long were you an EMT? Was it in Kansas City?

From the years of Blood and Sirens...

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

1988-1993 New York City and some Upstate NY
Mostly in Bedford Stuy, Bay Ridge and around Staten Island.

I hear Bed-Stuy is a nice place now, but it was not always that way:

From Billy Joel's "You may be right"
I've been stranded in the combat zone
I walked through Bedford Stuy alone
Even rode my motorcycle in the rain
And you told me not to drive
But I made it home alive
So you said that only proves that I'm insane

Re: From the years of Blood and Sirens...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You know, I could never make out what that line was.

Also, being as you were here before me, I had somehow worked out in my head that you were a local boy, but I suppose that's not the case.

As a supervisor I have heard...

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

"I have lost my keys and I can't get out of my house due to the two way deadbolt. The Locksmith is on the way."

"My husbands foot looks... Ewwww hunny, did you have to squirt it like that? I am taking him to the Dr. in a few hours."

"My cat just passed away and my Mom isn't hadeling it well."

"I just got back from Hurricane Katrina deployment, can I have Friday off?"

"I can't come in. It snowed." (This from a person who lives 1.5 miles away after I drove 20 miles from home in the same stuff and made it in on time).



I used this one when I was at RPD: "Hey Sgt. I spent all weekend searching for this guy in the river. I found him late yesterday, but we have another guy missing just down the way. Can I take a day to find him too?" (As it was, I found the first guy myself. The second guy floated and I had to pull him out by his hair).

And this is all in just the past 6 months.

Re: As a supervisor I have heard...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I have called in late due to the fact that I couldn't find my keys, and also because I was doing home surgery on my foot (not on the same day). But I came in.

I have also come in late because the snow plowed into my apartment complex parking lot was too high to get through. (I couldn't call then, as we also had no phone service.)

The "I need a day off because I've been doing my job", though -- that's new.

Re: As a supervisor I have heard...

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

Bah, I've done that before, especially when an EMP call comes in in the middle of the night, and I have to issue a warrant. My sup really loves that excuse: "I'm coming in late (or not at all) today, because I was woke up at **^^% 3:00 in the morning, and I'm tired." Somedays, I love my job.

[closer-to-fine.livejournal.com]

zerself and I have often joked about calling in "laid", as in a) having spent the entire night having excellent sex and are now too tired to entertain the thought of working, or b) woke up, had some excellent morning sex and now want to continue the trend by staying in bed all day.

I actually did do this once (although my excuse to work was that I was sick) and it was glorious. :)

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I've done that a lot as the wife used to come home from the bar at 4-5 AM and was occasionally amourous. I missed a few meetings one day, and when asked about it I was honest... I was involved in intense marital relations that morning and missed the meeting.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I think that would be an excellent thing to call in for. I don't think I've ever even considered that, though -- perhaps now I shall :)

It does remind me a bit of my college and immediately post-college days, when the Emperor Kristoff (my best friend) and I would discuss the possibility of skipping class or work due to too many hours staying awake the night before due to ingestion of scheduled chemical substances. We referred to this as being "snowed in", as in "Maybe we can tell them we were snowed in", even though all of these events took place in Florida.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I've called in unmotivated before.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I've left work for that before. As sxypaganmom says, "Today has been called for lack of interest".

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Or sunshine... I've had work called because it was beautiful out.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I've had classes called for that... but it was usually during hunting season as I did go to college in Arkansas...

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Deer season used to be three days off school. I'm not sure why it isn't out here.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

In Oregon (where I attended all my primary schooling) if your parents called in and said that you were going to be absent for hunting, they considered it and marked it as an Unexused Absense. If your parents called up and said you were going on vacation, it was fine for 5 days, then it was considered UA.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

When we lived in Kodiak, it wasn't unusual for businesses to shut down or work with skeleton crews on sunny days.

[zianuray.livejournal.com]

I called in dead once....my boss has a good sense of humor and when he called back, he asked "Is this the LATE xxx?" and told me to be sure and resurrect for the next day.

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

you know ceilia said once at her last concert that she had a friend who had a really good massage and went home and crashed then got up and felt so great that he actually did call in "too mellow to go to work"
and his boss was like, ok...see you tomorrow. weird but a true story.

silly

[brandy22kc.livejournal.com]

I got to call in cause i shut the back door of my car and the whole back window shattered, my boss took it pretty well