{"id":850,"date":"2010-06-14T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T09:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2010-06-14T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T09:20:41","slug":"how-to-tell-if-someone-is-pulling-a-sickie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/06\/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-pulling-a-sickie\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Tell if Someone is Pulling a Sickie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People get sick and that\u2019s life, frustrating as it may be for employers and colleagues. When someone takes a sick-day however when they are really fine, it&#8217;s really annoying, and according to the CIPD 1 in 3 is fake. Here is my (almost entirely unscientific) guide to telling the difference between a real and fake sick-day (known as &#8220;pulling a sickie&#8221; for my non-UK readers).<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Top 7 signs an employee is not really sick<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s a Monday or Friday (not conclusive obviously but this is when many sickie\u2019s occur)<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s their birthday or the day after<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a World Cup match day or the day after<\/li>\n<li>The next day they seem miraculously 100% well having had a \u201c24-hour virus\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The next day they make a point of coughing or sighing loudly as they pass your desk<\/li>\n<li>They return to work with a new tan<\/li>\n<li>They exhibit these <a href=\"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/body_language_training.html\">body language signs of lying<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sickie1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-853\" title=\"sickie\" src=\"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sickie1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sickie1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sickie1-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People get sick and that\u2019s life, frustrating as it may be for employers and colleagues. When someone takes a sick-day however when they are really fine, it&#8217;s really annoying, and according to the CIPD 1 in 3 is fake. Here is my (almost entirely unscientific) guide to telling the difference between a real and fake sick-day (known as &#8220;pulling a sickie&#8221; for my non-UK readers). Top 7 signs an employee is not really sick It\u2019s a Monday or Friday (not conclusive obviously but this is when many sickie\u2019s occur) It\u2019s their birthday or the day after It\u2019s a World Cup <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[946],"tags":[1288,1341,1363,1645,1703,1704],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sickie.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-dI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}