Here's the thing. If you don't want to go to work, this is not the excuse to use — A) Because you have to stab yourself, and B) because nobody argues with the word "diarrhea" and they certainly do not go review security camera footage.
From ABC 7 in Denver:
Investigators reviewed surveillance video taken at a nearby business that failed to show an attack where [the Blockbuster guy] claimed it had happened.
[The Blockbuster guy] was re-interviewed by detectives who said he finally admitted he stabbed himself because he didn't want to go to work.
Police: Man Who Claimed Stabbing Didn't Want To Go To Work [ABC 7 via HuffPo]
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what's awful is when crap like this DOES happen to you, and no one thinks you're being honest.
It's the worst thing in the world to fall ill at work, and have to CONVINCE your manager you just puked in the employee bathroom.
The American worker has the least amount of time available of any civilized country in the world, and the highest rates of burnout.
]]>Maybe if you took the pills, it won't seem so bad.
]]>@Fawkes: What, did reading this offend you or something?
Ugh, it's called a sick day
Also, cars run on rainbows.
]]>@mythago: That sounds like how I felt about grade school.
]]>Still, he should know that she's either fibbing or has health problems. It's not exactly a secret how often and how long it's supposed to occur.
]]>I worked with a couple of yoyahs like this. They came up with the most ridiculous claims. The best was 'getting food poisoning from eating meet too close to the bone.' ._O and 'walking pneumonia', in the same week.
Added to which, both shared an apartment than a block from our offices, so the boss walked over after weeks/months of this crap, banged on the door and told them that either they haul ass to work in the next 15 minutes or they were out of a job.
They didn't show up and then were shocked...SHOCKED, I tell you, when the boss fired them.
]]>And my thoughts are with all the retail employees as we gear up for the holiday frenzy. I've been there, and I'm so sorry you all have to go through it.
]]>He shouldn't have lied to the cops though.
]]>I do understand the desire to be injured rather than go to work. Wondered how much damage it would cause if i stepped in front of the bus as it was stopping for me this morning.
]]>It was an OSHA violation to not wear socks on the job, but socks looked dumb with the clothes I had (and like this worker, I could not afford more), so I wore low socks that I could tuck into my shoes. The manager insisted that this wasn't good enough, and she had to SEE my socks.
The guy in this story sounds like a putz, but I feel for his circumstances. It sucks to be poor and at the whims of some impotent, bitter, middle management retail boss.
]]>@MostlyHarmless: Not married, but together long enough to where he could care less if I'm satisfied or not!
]]>@Verucalise(countingcalories): MAYBE I should clarify... I was only making a joke!
I don't turn down sex, I barely get it anymore so why WOULD I lol. I just thought it would be a good comparison, and A+ answers from the men. I very much enjoyed reading.
]]>I'd rather be immobile and in pain than go to work sometimes. I like working, I just hate retail, even if I mostly count pills all day.
]]>@varro: Stick to guys, then. I hate to say that because there are a lot of gay men I rather like, but I'm afraid it's them or us at this point.
@MostlyHarmless: Clearly, you're not married.
]]>/sarcasm
]]>Can we get the rest of the story?
('cause there is always something hanging around the edges..... theft, drugs etc to cause such actions)
]]>@Munchie: Just watched that episode
]]>If you need to stab yourself to get out of work or have an excuse for ripping your uniform pants, I ask you: what the hell is wrong with this country?!
]]>- Darald, Forgetting Sarah Marshall
]]>"Poor" guy needs to just suck it up and get a wet rag if he really wants some...
]]>@Verucalise(countingcalories): So you're dating the one man on the planet who doesn't say "Well, but you can still give me a blowjob, right?"
]]>Not me though. Just saying.
]]>While this is generally true, don't tell me you've never worked at a job so awful that stabbing seemed preferable to going on.
It's like that Too Much Coffee Man joke. "Would you rather work retail, or have a nail pounded through your hand?"
"....What *kind* of nail?"
]]>A similar thing has happened in my extended family. The person wanted to get out of going to work, but had called in sick so many times and their wife was just so fed up with them that they faked an attack. It didn't go so far as getting the police involved, but they "got away with it" until they were fired the next week or so for not coming to work for some other reason.
These adults seem to have the maturity of a 7-year-old.
]]>@Ratty: Dangit, that should have been Cojones.
]]>At other jobs I sometimes thought about self-injury to avoid going in, but hey, this guy has cajones even if he doesn't have the greatest thought-out plan.
]]>@Verucalise(countingcalories): Dishonesty is a great tact to take with sex, for sure.
]]>So what, I pretend I have my period so I don't have to have sex. Everyone bleeds LOL.
]]>/Oblig South Park refrences
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