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Ok, so you're the boss, and on a key day for an unpopular project when all hands are supposed to be on board, one of the people administering the project calls in sick. What are your first thoughts? If you think "oh well, happens to everyone, let's cut her a break" then good for you, but you are in the minority in the work place. At least any place I've ever worked. I think most people think "geez, unless it's the flu, it couldn't kill her to suck it up and come in for one day?" or "yeah right, just because you don't like this project doesn't mean you get to dump it on everyone else."

I'm a federal supervisor and pretty lax about these things because I work in a small office where we've all known each other for years. I don't usually ask for explanations unless it's an ongoing trend or seems fishy. But other supervisors do. 
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Anywhere I've ever worked, if the person has a good track record for being reliable and committed...if they call in sick on a day like this I assume something must be really bad/wrong. I would especially think this when it comes to the bosses I've had, because they've all been super-committed workaholics.[/quote]

You're probably right. I guess I just don't want to take the chance, and at least with my experience of miscarriages, by day 4 or 5 it's just heavy bleeding. I was physically and emotionally able to go into work with all of them after day 2, and in fact I preferred it that way. To each their own. Unsurprisingly, I am also in the camp of waiting to tell about a viable pregnancy as long as possible. I told at 20 weeks with my first and 22 weeks with my second. [/quote]

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