Playing Hooky
Yeah I’m being very bad today. I called in sick to work. Although I did genuinely have a stomachache and some unpleasantness. I couldn’t eat the cookies I made (whoa. bad news.) I just… exaggerated it enough to keep me out of the office.
It’s a fucking Friday, it’s perfect outside because it finally decided to stop being eightyfuckingfive degrees in the middle of October. I have only missed work (at this company, I skipped once at my last job) when genuinely sick. I deserve a fucking day of hooky.
Besides, I’m cranky. I woke up at four and couldn’t fall back asleep, even after calling my boss this morning. It was really best for everyone that I didn’t go in.
At one office years ago they gave eight sick days and two personal days per year. That was perfect. You could use the personal day as a “I don’t feel like working today and you can go fuck yourself” day. I used both. Why don’t more places do that?
But I still felt totally guilty and told the woman I’m working with on our account that I would come in over the weekend if she needed me to. Dah. Why did I say that. I hope she doesn’t call. Oh dear. —cough— My stomachache has developed a cough.








