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Old Apr 3rd 2008 | 10:50 am
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A friend of mine once pulled a sickie and went to Dublin with her OH for the day.

They pulled up to a set of traffic lights and they were car jacked, they trailed her OH out of the car and drove off at full speed and then opened the passenger door and lobbed her out.

Result - broken leg, badly bruised, 2 day stay in Dublin Hospital and the entire work whispering for weeks!

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Old Apr 3rd 2008 | 10:53 am
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Originally Posted by crocodileseamus
A friend of mine once pulled a sickie and went to Dublin with her OH for the day.

They pulled up to a set of traffic lights and they were car jacked, they trailed her OH out of the car and drove off at full speed and then opened the passenger door and lobbed her out.

Result - broken leg, badly bruised, 2 day stay in Dublin Hospital and the entire work whispering for weeks!

BEWARE YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT
She could have said that she had a specialist hospital appointment or suchlike.

I once knew someone who threw a sickie...to go to the cricket at the SCG....guess who was spotted on the nightly news in a close-up crowd shot LOL
 
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I know someone who worked in personnel at BT a good few years ago. Apparently, as part of her job, she had to interview all the people who returned from long or unusual pattern sickleave. She interviewed this one guy who always seemed to have at least one sick day off every week - with no Doctors note. Anyway, a few days later, she gets into a taxi outside the station and lo and behold, there is the guy she has just interviewed. He has been taking sickies to take shifts as a taxi driver.... BUSTED!!!

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Old Apr 3rd 2008 | 11:23 am
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Well all I can say is thank goodness for this forum.
I have had the flu all week and have been off work spent 3 days in bed.Got v v bored yesterday and came online. Sat and read the adult jokes that kept me amused for quite some time.
Had phoned last night to say I'd be in a work today. Got up this morning and my cough is really bad and chesty and nose still runny.( work in hospitality flu is not good) So phoned up and said i wouldnt be in. Ho hum another day to read more jokes.
 
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Originally Posted by Fly Away
I know someone who worked in personnel at BT a good few years ago. Apparently, as part of her job, she had to interview all the people who returned from long or unusual pattern sickleave. She interviewed this one guy who always seemed to have at least one sick day off every week - with no Doctors note. Anyway, a few days later, she gets into a taxi outside the station and lo and behold, there is the guy she has just interviewed. He has been taking sickies to take shifts as a taxi driver.... BUSTED!!!


Actually, that's pretty clever....until he got caught lol.
 
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when hubbie was a youngster he desperately wanted to go to a fishing comp but his Mum wouldn't let him have the day off - so he bunked forging a note given to a friend to hand in at school. He didn't win but the following day in the Bristol evening post was a photo on the front page showing him as the youngest contestant fishing (the photographer had taken a piccie of him from across the bank!)
 
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when hubbie was a youngster he desperately wanted to go to a fishing comp but his Mum wouldn't let him have the day off - so he bunked forging a note given to a friend to hand in at school. He didn't win but the following day in the Bristol evening post was a photo on the front page showing him as the youngest contestant fishing (the photographer had taken a piccie of him from across the bank!)
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Originally Posted by crocodileseamus
A friend of mine once pulled a sickie and went to Dublin with her OH for the day.

They pulled up to a set of traffic lights and they were car jacked, they trailed her OH out of the car and drove off at full speed and then opened the passenger door and lobbed her out.

Result - broken leg, badly bruised, 2 day stay in Dublin Hospital and the entire work whispering for weeks!

BEWARE YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT
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Worked with a chap years ago, that also had a part time job in a petrol station as a cashier, he often covered other shifts and pulled sickies form his full time job - until........ he was held up at the petrol station by a thug with a hammer and whacked once, no major harm done but front page on the 'Cambridge News' as far as I know our manager never did spot the story.......

 
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Me and my mate bunked off school one day to come up to London to go to a Bon Jovi concert at Wembley Stadium. Obviously loads of people there, but who did we manage to bump into.......? Our Geography teacher (who was also meant to be at school that day!).
 
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Me and my mate bunked off school one day to come up to London to go to a Bon Jovi concert at Wembley Stadium. Obviously loads of people there, but who did we manage to bump into.......? Our Geography teacher (who was also meant to be at school that day!).
That's hilarious!!
 
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Me and my friend decided to bunk off our Commerce lesson - but left the decisio too late and the only place to hide was the girls' loo. Only problem was the door was right opposite the classroom - so we had to stay in there for the whole lesson I'd have rather been in class
 

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