How to Fake a Sick Call to the Boss

Monday, 06 June 2011 | by Pat's Picks

“Calling in sick to work is perhaps the most unappreciated art form besides improv comedy,” says the Louisville Courier-Journal in today’s paper. So many of us do it that the paper thought we could use some help getting it right. To that end, they came up with several tips to “make your fake sick-day calls to the boss sound really legit.”

First tip: Decide on your illness before picking up the phone—allergies are suggested as a plausible summer ailment. And another tip: Schedule your sick call wisely: “Send an email in the middle of the night saying you’ve been sick and unable to sleep. Call again in the morning five minutes before they get into work and leave a voicemail, concerned if they had received your email.”