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Courtesy of Kyle Doyle, who convincingly demonstrated these steps.
Step 1: Friend your boss, coworkers, or corporate HR on Facebook.
Step 2: Party all night.
Step 3: Decide alcohol-induced vomiting counts as a legitimate illness.
Step 4: Call in sick.
Step 5: Update Facebook status with “not going to work, f*** it i’m still trashed SICKIE WOO”
For bonus points, really piss off the HR department by pretending you’re really sick and quoting your contract to support your case.
Here’s Kyle’s example, an email exchange between him and the HR employee, Niresh Regmi:
HR: Please provide a medical certificate stating a valid reason for your sick leave on Thursday .
Kyle: “1 day leave absences do not require a medical certificate as stated in my contract, provided I have stated that I am on leave for medical reasons.”
HR: Usually that is the case, as per your contract. However please note that leave during these occasions is only granted for genuine medical reasons. You line manager has determined that your leave was not due to medical reasons and as such we cannot grant leave on this occasion.
Kyle: My leave was due to medical reasons, so you cannot deny leave based on a line manager’s discretion, with no proof, please process leave as requested.
HR:I believe the proof that you are after is below (a screenshot of the Facebook page is attached to the email)
So Kyle, while you may not have your call center job for long.
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