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Posted on: March 05, 2008

Some years ago, a Twin Falls business had an employee who called in sick one morning.

“I can’t come in today because my horse is ill,” she explained.

Suspicious, her supervisor visited the woman’s other place of part-time employment, a retail establishment. He found her standing behind the counter.

“How’s your horse?” he asked.

“He’s feeling much better,” the woman replied. “But I’m not feeling so good right now.”

The story illustrates a problem most of us have during cold-and-flu season: How to call in sick and make it sound convincing?

For the fact is, most people can’t sound ill over the telephone even when sounding ill is required.

And sick or not, what are you supposed to tell your supervisor after he’s already taken three other sick-out calls before 8 in the morning?

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