Calling off

Just called off for the second time in 3 months! Feels great but also can't help but shake the worthless feeling. How ofted do y'all call off?

maybe twice a year? seeing as I only work in the summer I guess that might be a lot...I do feel guilty when I do it though, mostly b/c when I do call off, it's for some bull shit reason..

Not often. I don't have the greatest work ethic in the world, but I feel bad calling in. I save it for only the most dire cases, where getting out of the bed at 6 in the morning is just impossible. And I can't really afford to take time off either. Someday, I will get paid sick days. But not now.

I've never heard it called that. We say calling out...But yeah, I need the money waaaaaay too much to call out EVER. But I do fantasize about it every time I have to go to work...

Is this an East Coast thing? Are you talking about calling in sick to work?

I've never called off from my full-time job. As for my part-time job, well…I don't really need to call off. I work whenever I want to.

every couple of months; whenever i have a week where i can spare a few bucks, i guess. i don't have any reason to feel bad, since my job isn't really the type where productivity is going to suffer due to a few people not being there.

What the hell is calling off?

I can't exactly call off when I have a work from home position.

Read any one of these posts. You'll get it.

dude youre such a drama queen

I mean I get it, I just have never heard of it. And it is definatly not an east coast thing.

i took 1 day off in 18 months before i got fired....

call off...sounds like some weird phone sex thing.

Yeah definitely not an east coast thing, not even a new england thing.

yea. i was confused too. definately thought it was a sexual saying.. maybe it should be

i generally only do when i wake up suddenly, completely hung over, feeling like i was abducted by aliens, and realizing that not only was i supposed to be into work two hours ago, but i have no idea where i put my pants.

sooo about once or twice a month

me thinks
thats where im from and it made total sense to me

Black is white! Soda is pop!

I used to pretend to be sick to get off work, but that's when I was in North Dakota, and living expenses were cheap.

Now I'm in Cali, and I go to work every day to see if I can make it through the day. fuck, I've worked there for a month, and had 3 days off. I had pink eye for 4 days and only took 2 of those days off, and then I had a sinus infection and my boss made me go home.

NO!! I have never heard it called "calling off"...I always say calling in..ALWAYS!!

I could see the use of the term "called off" to refer to some preplanned event, but work is more of an every day occurrence.