Comments on: When Calling in Sick Is Not Enough http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/12/when-calling-in.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bill Nettles http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/12/when-calling-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-8886 Bill Nettles Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:18:25 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/12/when-calling-in.html#comment-8886 <p>Teachers are having an especially hard time these days with "grandma died" excuses from students. Because of the divorce rate, kids might have 6 sets of grandparents and 20 aunts. It's a built-in excuse to miss class/test/final exam WITHOUT lying.</p> Teachers are having an especially hard time these days with “grandma died” excuses from students. Because of the divorce rate, kids might have 6 sets of grandparents and 20 aunts. It’s a built-in excuse to miss class/test/final exam WITHOUT lying.

]]> By: Larry Sheldon http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/12/when-calling-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-8885 Larry Sheldon Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:48:03 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/12/when-calling-in.html#comment-8885 <p>Years ago we had a better (certainly a lot cheaper) plan. I worked for a Large Corporation that had 9 computer installations around the state (this was back in the day that if you want to watch your program run, you had to go where the computer was). </p> <p>Tell the folks at your office (in Large MidState City) that you were going to SuburbV of Large City In Southern Part of State. Call them and cancel the scheduled test time because you had to go to Capital for some reason. Call *them* and ..... Rinse. Lather. Repeat. Until you had used up the RAO in Large MidState City (a few blocks from your office), Middling Large City in the Southern part of the state, the more-or-less downtown office in Large City In Southern Part of State, SuburbA of Large City In Southern Part of State and the rest of the nine offices. Loops were permitted.</p> Years ago we had a better (certainly a lot cheaper) plan. I worked for a Large Corporation that had 9 computer installations around the state (this was back in the day that if you want to watch your program run, you had to go where the computer was).

Tell the folks at your office (in Large MidState City) that you were going to SuburbV of Large City In Southern Part of State. Call them and cancel the scheduled test time because you had to go to Capital for some reason. Call *them* and ….. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. Until you had used up the RAO in Large MidState City (a few blocks from your office), Middling Large City in the Southern part of the state, the more-or-less downtown office in Large City In Southern Part of State, SuburbA of Large City In Southern Part of State and the rest of the nine offices. Loops were permitted.

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