h a l f b a k e r yYeah, I wish it made more sense too.
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Does it offer a choice of horrid coughs? |
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In The Good Old Days, before email and mobile phones, the wily workshy could adopt the strategem of writing a fax to the office before retiring to bed, then putting it on the home fax machine on "delayed transmit". |
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Thus the PHB would arrive in the office and find a fax, genuinely timestamped "0351 hrs", on his desk, and read "Sorry, but I'm having an [asthma attack/bout of bad toothache/episode of sickness and/or diahorrea]* and I'm going to the [Accident and Emergency/dentist first thing tomorow/bathroom every ten minutes]* - I'll be in touch as soon as I can". |
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*delete where not applicable |
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Isn't it simpler just to *be* the boss? |
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^ Then you never get a sick day. |
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