Years ago I had a friend named Harry Ayling. He said "It's ALWAYS the Boss's fault" I didn't believe him at the time but its true.

The reason people come to work when they are sick is because the Boss is a dimwit who hasn't got the intelligence to send them straight home.

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I've always been pretty healthy and I was working for this CAD company and we were allowed so many sick days a year and so many holidays.

Well I'd worked though several holidays and accumulated a lot of 'comp' time and I hadn't used many sick days. One day a memo came around saying that all comp time had to be used before the end of the year and sick days cannot be carried iover to the next year.

So I started taking a comp day or calling in sick every Friday. This went on for several months and nobody noticed because I was still more productive than anyone else in the department (I had written a database for customer problems which produced answers instantly).

And to make matters worse the boss was such a loser that he didn't keep track of comp days or sick time, so no matter how much I used I still had the same balance.

Of course the boss eventually got promoted and had to name his successor. Did he choose the miost productive person in the department. Of course not - he chose some young whizz kid arse kisser who had stolen all of my example programs and claimed them as his own.