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Pulling a sickie takes planning
Dragging your sleeply bod out of a warm bed at some obscene hour in the middle of winter can be as tempting as the prospect of pot-holing in Rhyll. As for those rare sunny days in July - who wants to bake in an office when they could be burning their sun-starved limbs in the garden? That's why a great British tradition came about. It's called 'The Sickie'.
The art of skiving
As explained in the Oxford dictionary: The Sickie n 1: Lying through one's teeth to one's boss to scrounge a day off work to fritter away sleeping or loafing about watching daytime telly.
Which resourceful slacker who came up with this labour-saving device, heaven knows, but it isn't always as easy as it sounds. 'Pulling a Sickie' takes planning.
Drew Bolton, a twenty-six year old Business Analyst from Kent didn't achieve the results she wanted: 'I'd been out partying and couldn't get up, so I rang a colleague and told him I was hungover and was going to stay in bed. I hated my job anyway and hoped my boss would sack me. Instead of passing on my real message, the sap told them I had some killer bug. I was still in that bloody office six months later.'
Stressed to the max
The main reason people take time off is because of dissatisfaction with their job. Over 30% of staff turnover is due to stress in the workplace.
When you consider that the British workforce is made up of approximately twenty million employees (not including directors and managers), who are contracted to spend, on average, forty hours a week toiling, it's not difficult to imagine the diverse effect absenteeism has on British industry every year. It isn't just time that's lost, it's money too - billions, in fact.
The problem for employers is that it's impossible to tell whether their absent staff are in need of assistance because most don't voice their grievances. We'd rather take the day off wouldn't we?
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