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[quote=Anonymous]Some of what other people have said...you tag team with your spouse.

One time in my whole career I had something that I truly could not miss...a group presentation of which I was a critical part scheduled to be given to the company's executive leadership team.  I would have been screwing over my entire team in a major way if I bailed at the last minute.  We had worked on it for months.  My kid was up puking the whole night before and spouse out of town.  I got literally zero sleep and oh yeah as a bonus I was pregnant and not telling anyone yet.  It was a true nightmare scenario.  I brought my at the time 3 year old into the office, parked him in my office with his ipad, and asked a colleague (a fellow mom I was tight with) to sit in there with him (after fully disclosing he had been ill although he was no longer actively ill).  She took every precaution not to touch him etc.  I did the presentation and then took him home and took my colleague out to lunch the next week.

Most meetings though, you call in or you miss it.  It's not as important as your sick kid.[/quote]

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