Staff Nurse
Aside from the 8:40 segment, one of my personal favorite segments the Musers do is when they have discussions about certain everyday life items that 99.99% everyone deals with.
This segment is about sick days at work. I’ve been on both sides of the coin and some of my excuses for missing work could rival the best of them, I’m even embarrassed years later for at least one. I eventually told my boss at the time it was a lie years later to hopefully feel better about it, but I still worry that thing that Carson Daly made up called “Karma” (My Name is Earl line) will come back to get me one day.
I know they talk about what’s right and wrong with the whole thing, but let’s get some comments going with what your worst excuse for missing work was below.
I don’t have too many excuses for missing work, but I usually end up taking a lot of sick days as debilitating diseases and crippling injuries seem to like me. Also my tapeworm refuses to move out.
Anyways, I was just wondering, what the heck crawled up Fernando’s butt and died at the end of the segment?
I rarely use sick days for actually being sick. I subscribe to the theory that I’m going to be miserable at work whether I’m healthy or sick, so if I’m sick I might as well go to work. Of course if its something major I will take a legit sick day, but generally I reserve my sick days for the important things like severe hangovers after all night benders.
Also if I’m calling in sick, I almost always use the diarrhea force field. Call in with a cold and you look like a complete wuss. Call in with a tale of explosive diarrhea and nobody gives you any trouble.
And AP, Fernando has always been a wet blanket as long as I can recall. I even think of him as the original black cloud before Danpul Balis took the crown.
i agree diarrhea or food posioning is always the best excuse, something that they cannot ask for a doctors note, the downside to that is that everytime i have used those excuses, they really happen usually the next day or so.