‘He's calling in sick, he's sick’: Boss insists manager's team member is lying about his illness when he calls out sick, is hilariously proven wrong

Listen, we're all human. Whether you've come down with a rough case of the sniffles or your noggin isn't feeling too hot, sick days are put in place at our jobs so we can use them at our own discretion. Though many employees in the workforce cash in sick days when they're not ill, it's nobody's business (technically), and even still, that doesn't make up for the large number of employees who call out when they're actually sick or injured. If my forehead is feeling a little warm, I'm not risking getting my coworkers sick with The Germ™. If one employee enters the office with a gnarly cough, three more employees will be calling out sick the next day—and our bosses surely don't want that on their conscience (or performance review).

In this next story, a team manager at a retail job recounts the day they taught their boss that you don't need to be coughing up a storm to call out sick from work. Not only did the boss get proven wrong, but it starts a chain reaction of ridicule from all of his subordinates. Scroll below to read the full story.

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The team manager who posted this story explains that they have full trust in their team members because they've never given them a reason to distrust them. This is exemplary maturity at its finest, but it seems their boss doesn't possess the same trait. Perhaps it's virtuous…
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