{"id":55,"date":"2014-03-21T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2025-01-19T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T07:19:11","slug":"gary-calls-in-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/wp\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Gary calls in sick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gary:<\/strong> here&#8217;s a great trick for calling in sick. jami &#8211; pretend that you&#8217;re not listening. nobody copy and paste to HR. Call your boss while lying on your back with your neck hanging over the bed.<br \/>\n<strong>Peter:<\/strong> Good advice. I always just tried to sound congested, but that sounds more grounded in science.<br \/>\n<strong>Gary:<\/strong> the entire physical discomfort of the position alters your voice in such a way that you sound different from your usual self. done correctly, you&#8217;ll sound sick or you might even graduate to sounding like you&#8217;re on your deathbed.<br \/>\n<strong>Josh:<\/strong> wow. Sounds effective<br \/>\n<strong>Gary:<\/strong> that&#8217;s the only thing my dad ever taught me that should be shared, and yes: this could qualify as sharing knowledge with other teams if i send it to the Office.<br \/>\n<strong>Sean:<\/strong> you could write it up in a wiki doc<br \/>\n<strong>Gary:<\/strong> in this day and age where we type instead of calling the boss, i find that it&#8217;s still an effective technique. the physical discomfort leads to typing mistakes, which makes you seem either way out of it or just plain stupid.<br \/>\n<strong>Sean:<\/strong> place the laptop on the floor. lean backwards over the bed, reach over your head and attempt to type<br \/>\n<strong>Gary:<\/strong> i just tried it. i think i broke my neck.<br \/>\n<strong>Sean:<\/strong> &#8230; the result is a valid excuse to not come into work. I think that accomplishes exactly what we were going for<br \/>\n<strong>Gary:<\/strong> +1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary: here&#8217;s a great trick for calling in sick. jami &#8211; pretend that you&#8217;re not listening. nobody copy and paste to HR. Call your boss while lying on your back with your neck hanging over the bed. Peter: Good advice. I always just tried to sound congested, but that sounds more grounded in science. Gary:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbaudwetrust.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}