Employers may not want to know the gory details of your illness. What we do want to know is if you’ll be reporting for work tomorrow. You need to give an expectation of when you’ll...

People do get sick on these days, but when this behavior repeats, that’s when it starts looking suspicious.

The old-school rule was, go to work and let them send you home. I disagree. If you have an infectious disease, don’t come to work and make everyone else sick. Call in sick, but do...

Telling everybody, ‘Oh, my boyfriend and I went to ‘¦’ is a no-no. It’s ridiculous. You skipped work and now everybody, including your boss, knows it, because you actually told them.

Unless you can’t talk, all of your fingers are broken or you’re in a coma somewhere, you should be able to call in yourself. It really is annoying for most of us employers to have...

No matter what, you want to be courteous. Of course, most employers want to discourage abusing sick days. It’s important to remember that it’s called work. It’s not called f-u-n. It’s nice to be able...