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"?

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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.