You have a job. You are sick, too sick to go to work. You need to stay home but first you need to inform your boss. Do you:

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You have a job. You are sick, too sick to go to work. You need to stay home but first you need to inform your boss. Do you:

 

*please see poll for choices

[jewellsmommy]

I voted that you are calling IN to work that you are sick. That is how It appears in my mind, but I have also said call out. When using "call out," I don't usually put "sick" behind the phrase. You either call out or call in sick.

[Cinder]

Call in. Then you go to the doc because it turns out you probably have strep and you need meds and the doctor's note. (At least my ds did a couple weeks ago.)

 

ETA: I've never heard the other two phrases before.

[kristi26]

Either you call IN to work sick or you call OFF work because you're sick.  I voted the first.

[marbel]

I voted "call in" because that's the term I used when I was working.  But I hear "call out" more now. 

[SparklyUnicorn]

Huh.  Immediately I thought, "call out".  Apparently I'm odd.

 

 

[LucyStoner]

Easy peasy. You clearly call in (to work) to call out (sick from work).

 

I voted call out. Because you are calling and saying you won't be in.

 

We usually say only call out. "Are you going to call out?" Or "I'm going back to bed, I called out."

[ajfries]

You are calling IN to work to tell them you're sick. I've never heard the term "call out".

[Loowit]

Well, of those I would call in.  However, my DH just uses email and says that he emailed work that he was sick.

[SparklyUnicorn]

You are calling IN to work to tell them you're sick. I've never heard the term "call out".

 

You are calling in to call out.  :laugh:

 

This sort of reminds me of the fact we often say "the alarm when off" when we mean it turned on.  At least I do that and lots of people do....

[Mandylubug]

Well, I've always said I need to call out

[Stratford]

I used to say "call in" but my current workplace (of 7 years) uses the term "call off" so that's what I use, too.  

[Ellie]

I have never heard anyone say anything except "call in." Unless someone is the boss, and he can call off work, as in no one goes in.

[Wabi Sabi]

At my job, you have to CALL IN and talk to a supervisor in order to let them know you need to CALL OFF a shift. 

[QueenCat]

I said "call in". Dh actually emails his boss. He also emails those that work under him so that they don't waste time trying to find him if he's not in his "cube".

[kewb]

I call in sick.  And then email my staff that I am out sick and to email/call with any questions.

[Karen in CO]

We send and "OOO" email to say that we'll be Out Of the Office. It used to be that we'd call in call in sick because we were making a call into the office.

[AlmiraGulch]

I use the term call in.  I'm calling into the company to tell them that I'll be out.

 

P.S.  In reality, I email and say I'll be out, turn on my out of office message, and go back to bed.  

[Wheres Toto]

Easy peasy. You clearly call in (to work) to call out (sick from work).

 

I voted call out. Because you are calling and saying you won't be in.

 

We usually say only call out. "Are you going to call out?" Or "I'm going back to bed, I called out."

 

:iagree:

[purpleowl]

I say call in, but I've heard call out as well.  Never heard call off.

[JudoMom]

I've never heard anything other than "call in". But like others, now I just email :) .

[lewber]

I'm in HR. I think our manual even says call off work.

[AmandaVT]

When I worked out of the home, I would call to say that I would be out. So call out sick. Usually I hoped to get voice mail, so I didn't have to actually talk to my boss. I hardly took any days off (unpaid) from work over 7 years, but when I was out, all my classes needed to be canceled and team girls needed to double up levels in practice, so it was a pain in everyone's rear. So I tried to not do it often. 

[Word Nerd]

Call in sick is the only one of those options that doesn't sound weird. But I would send a text or email.

[JonesinIndiana]

I voted for call in sick.

 

 

WARNING VENT AHEAD:

 

I work for a MICROMANAGER and I have been instructed to call him between 6:30 and 7am. Never mind that he has to then call the receptionist to let her know that I'm not coming in at 8..... And she then has to get to work earlier to let my 8 o'clock patient know I won't be there.

 

Sigh. I really, really, really HATE my Monday job. Continuing to look for a new Monday job.....

[momacacia]

Only on this message board would this question be asked.... :laugh:

[elegantlion]

I've never heard the other two, I voted "call in"  as that is what I always told my boss when I left a voicemail in those sick days gone by. 

[Shamzanne]

I've always said I would "call in sick". But my ex-husband's family says "call off", as in "I'm going to call off". They don't add the sick.

[vonfirmath]

I generally use call in but I have heard call off too and understand it

 

[Melissa in Australia]

none of the above.

 I say I need to ring work

 

 

[MiMi 4under3]

You use the phone to "call in" sick.

 

When somebody is absent from work, they've "called out."

 

With a Doctor's note, you're "off sick."

 

:lol: 

[fraidycat]

Call in. Call out is dispute in my world as in "he was being an ass, so I called him out on it."

[Chocolate Rose]

How fun!! 

I'm in HR and where I work it's referred to as "calling out" sick. I'd never heard it phrased that way previously. Some managers, though, refer to it as their employee has "called off" sick. :-) It all works.

[swellmomma]

I have always said call in, I have never heard the other phrases unless referring to the boss calling off work for everyone, like a shut down.  Every job I have had that included an employee handbook of rules and such said call in as well.  Like fraidycat said, calling out means you told someone to their face what you feel they are wrong about.  OR if you are in a place of business that you need to dial 9 to call out before you can dial the actual number.  

And as kids we would call ON someone by knocking on their door to see if they could play.  

[Hannah]

None of the above. Here, we 'take a sickie'.

 

Taking a sickie here means that you pretend to be sick to do other things for the day.

[Kathryn]

I've never heard anything besides calling IN to TAKE OFF.

[Desert Strawberry]

Call in sick. 

 

Calling off work is canceling the job. For instance, construction crews call off work for rain.

 

You would call out for pizza or a hooker.

 

 

[Cinder]

Just got off the phone with ds1. Sounds like young people call out sick; only us oldtimers call in. lol

[Seasider]

It is so funny to me that you posted this today. Because today, for the first time in my life, I was talking with someone who used the expression, "call off sick." When he said it, it was like a little bump in the conversation - I didn't realize what sounded odd about his statement until I saw this poll.

 

I have ever only heard (before tonight, anyway!), call IN sick.

[fourcatmom]

I would always say "call in" sick but my DH always uses the phase "call off". Maybe has to do with type of work.