The Dead or Alive Coworker
Here is some simple piece of advice, don’t give your boss any reason to speculate that you are dead. If you are coming down with a fever, or some other form of illness, be sure your manager is fully aware of your condition and give constant updates. Do not disappear for a week where your last communication is an email that reads ‘Coming down with something, not coming in.’ Either with your iPhone, XBox Live, email, or other form of communication you can modify your team of your condition, what ever it be, I mean you can even have your LOLcat dial for you if need be.
Recently we all where worried about a fellow coworker that had not shown up to work for more over a week. His last email to his manager was that he was coming down with some fever. To ease our concern we had an office pool as to what happened to him. Here are some of the options we bet on…
- He won the lottery and went to Hawaii
- He is was clawed to death by his cats.
- He is playing WoW.
- He found another job and forgot to give his two week notice.
- He re-enlisted and is stop loss in Iraq.
- He feel and could not get up.
- He went down to Mexico and got kidnapped by the cartels.
- He went fishing at the bottom of the lake.