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

[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.