Sick And At Home (Although Those Two Are Not Related)

Let's talk about sick days at work. About 47 percent of workers said they show up at work despite an illness because they can’t afford to miss the pay or don’t trust the work to get done in their absence. That’s down from 54 percent last year. Interestingly, women are more likely than men to say those issues motivate them to show up while sick. Then there’s the the flip side: The healthy people who plead sick.

About 35 percent of workers said they’ve called in sick when they were feeling fine, compared with 38 percent a year earlier. Asked why, more than one-quarter said they simply didn’t feel like working. Another quarter said they needed time to unwind, and 27 percent said they had to go to a doctor’s appointment. The rest said they wanted to get some sleep or run personal errands.

The reason I am even mentioning this topic is because the article included some creative excuses people used to call in sick.
· The ozone in the air flattened the employee’s tires.
· A pressure cooker exploded and scared the employee’s sister, so she had to stay home.
· An employee said he had to be the pallbearer at the funeral of his wife’s cousin’s pet.
· Police raided the employee’s home and blocked them in.
· Employee had to testify against a drug dealer and the dealer’s friend mugged him.
· Because an employee’s roots were showing, she had to keep her hair appointment.
· Eating cat food instead of tuna made the employee deathly ill.
· While she wasn’t sick, her llama was.
· Using hair remover under her arms gave the employee chemical burns.
· Unable to get to work because the employee said he was bowling the game of his life.
· Traumatic stress from a large spider found in the employee’s home. She had to stay home to deal with the spider.
· Employee said he had better things to do.
· Employee ate too much birthday cake.
· Employee was bitten by a duck.

I just learned something you have been dying to know, and just in time for Halloween. Do you know the difference between caskets and coffins? Although the terms casket and coffin are used interchangeably in vernacular American English, there is a distinct difference–a casket is a rectangular box with square corners and a coffin is more angular (hexagonal) and shaped to the human body (wide at the shoulders and narrow at the feet).

Something else you would likely want to learn is which fast food place gives you the most fries with your order. Can you guess? I guessed McDonald's. Was I correct? You'll have to read the article to know for sure.

Here is a photo of us walking through the area where we stayed in Ouray, Colorado, in October. Nice Fall surroundings, huh?

Here's a view of alpenglow I spotted during our walk.

And here we are, having completed our circle of the neighborhood and coming back to our house.

I do have another realistic life goal to share with you.

I found another photo of the guy that inserts himself into stock photos using Photoshop.

I am posting this from home while I wait to see if I have a job opportunity soon. As I mentioned, I will let you know soon.