Speaker 1: Mudjoe on in the morning. This was something I was
Speaker 1: going to do in a.
Speaker 2: Trending news but I'm going to do it now because
Speaker 2: I saw it and I thought it was too good.
Speaker 2: So this is trending on Reddit right now. What do
Speaker 2: you think the craziest reason is why somebody would call
Speaker 2: in sick to work. When I tell you this, I
Speaker 2: want to ask the listeners if they think that this
Speaker 2: is a legit reason to call in sick. Okay, this
Speaker 2: is the actual letter that was sent to this person's boss.
Speaker 2: It says, hi, and they blacked out the name. Feeling
Speaker 2: a bit overwhelmed with all the work and my energy
Speaker 2: feels a little off, so not getting the vibe right now. Again,
Speaker 2: they're sending this to their boss, Please don't miss me.
Speaker 2: And then it goes into explaining what the stuff is
Speaker 2: that they had to do for work. They called in sick.
Speaker 2: They took a sick day because they said that their
Speaker 2: energy was feeling a little.
Speaker 3: Bit off personal mental health day.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I mean, listen, I wish I had
Speaker 1: the balls to do stuff like that that some of
Speaker 1: like the the twenties something.
Speaker 3: So please don't miss me though, don't you want people
Speaker 3: to miss you when you're out, so that yeah, there's security.
Speaker 1: That's right, joking though, like, please don't miss me.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you though, like I like, I don't think
Speaker 2: ten years ago that you could call or you could
Speaker 2: tell your boss.
Speaker 1: I'm taking The world is changed.
Speaker 3: My energy is off.
Speaker 1: I want to be like that. The world has changed, though.
Speaker 4: Man, you used to have to just suck it up,
Speaker 4: and regardless of how you felt, you had a job
Speaker 4: to do, you had a responsibility, you had an obligation.
Speaker 4: You got to go do your job. But honestly, I
Speaker 4: give them somebody energy off.
Speaker 2: My energy has been off that day and I've worked
Speaker 2: five and a half hours.
Speaker 1: Or whatever, and it's been Yeah, you fine, years tired.
Speaker 1: I know what you're doing. I got no energy. I'm
Speaker 1: so exhausting on what you're doing. All right.
Speaker 2: So here here's the question. I asked, what is the
Speaker 2: craziest excuse somebody gave for taking a sick day? Now,
Speaker 2: you get a sick day, or you get days probably
Speaker 2: that where you're under the weather. I don't think that
Speaker 2: I have ever taken and I've taken sick days when
Speaker 2: I wasn't sick, but I don't think I have ever
Speaker 2: used an excuse of hey, I'm just taking the day,
Speaker 2: even though I probably can do that and just say, hey,
Speaker 2: I just need a day whatever. But there are so
Speaker 2: many times where people will come up with their excuse
Speaker 2: and their excuse is either BS or it could be legit.
Speaker 3: Why do you even need to say? What why you
Speaker 3: are taking your sick day? I'm taking a sick day.
Speaker 2: Funny thing is I always feel like I have to
Speaker 2: explain myself because I think that people think I'm a
Speaker 2: BS or I am.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm the same. Yeah, if I ever need
Speaker 3: to call off or something, I'm like, this is what
Speaker 3: my voice actually sounds like, because I need to be believed.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that when you like.
Speaker 3: I've done that forever. But also I feel like you
Speaker 3: are allowed so many sick days. You don't need an
Speaker 3: exp just I am taking a sick day.
Speaker 1: That's the same thing when you.
Speaker 4: Go pick your kids up early for school and you
Speaker 4: got to son them out and they say, reason, yeah,
Speaker 4: come to get my job.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you something.
Speaker 2: I have signed out Luke from school and said because
Speaker 2: he's going to spend time with his dad today, And honestly,
Speaker 2: I remember at his school the person in the front
Speaker 2: office was like, good for you, that's great, Like they
Speaker 2: were cool with the whole thing. I just didn't feel
Speaker 2: like I needed to do. Like he's going on to
Speaker 2: my friends.
Speaker 3: Her daughter out at the end of this last school
Speaker 3: year because the UV was eight and she wrote that
Speaker 3: in them.
Speaker 2: Eight four Tour Mojo Live eight four four six six
Speaker 2: five six five four eight. I'm taking a day off
Speaker 2: today because my energy is a little off.
Speaker 5: With that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have the day I want to be.
Speaker 1: They give you days I want.
Speaker 2: But you know, I know people that take all their
Speaker 2: sick days and they and they take them all and
Speaker 2: they don't in our company.
Speaker 3: They go over Like I just looked at mine because
Speaker 3: I had had to take off some days coming up,
Speaker 3: and when so many.
Speaker 2: When I had my heart surgery, I had so many
Speaker 2: sick days that I didn't have to do a like extendedly.
Speaker 3: I did the same thing for a maternity leave. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just exhausted all my six days, but I was
Speaker 3: still getting.
Speaker 1: But there are some people. Listen.
Speaker 2: We've had people who worked on the show that used
Speaker 2: all their sick days, And I thought to myself, I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: if you do ever eventually decide that you're gonna, you know,
Speaker 2: have a baby. You have no days, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, Like you're getting unpaid. I don't think they
Speaker 2: don't give you the pay. I don't think this company
Speaker 2: does it.
Speaker 4: But I used to work for companies where if you
Speaker 4: were no longer employed there, they had.
Speaker 2: To pay you out the amount day. I do that
Speaker 2: they do. I think that, yeah, I think that they
Speaker 2: might do that. Eight four four Mojo Live eight four
Speaker 2: four six six five six five four eight. Give me
Speaker 2: a call, or I'm taking a Rando. I'm gonna go Rando, Rando,
Speaker 2: Rando caller.
Speaker 1: Hi, Mojo in the morning. Hello, good in the morning.
Speaker 1: This is Puff.
Speaker 4: I had a.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's your name one more time. I didn't catch it.
Speaker 2: Say it again, your phone cut out again?
Speaker 1: Say it? Kuck, Puck, Puck, p U c K puck.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Puck?
Speaker 6: I had a coworker come in once who called in
Speaker 6: because they were tired and stressed.
Speaker 1: And this was during COVID.
Speaker 2: Well listen though, that's leg thought that.
Speaker 3: I do think that's a legit. Yeah, reason to not man.
Speaker 2: But when you're Puck and you're the one having to
Speaker 2: do all the work, you're like now, you just made
Speaker 2: me even more tired and more struct You're switching that
Speaker 2: first letter, and I get, I get, and I get
Speaker 2: why you would be like, hey, I'm calling in for
Speaker 2: this one because it does. It falls on you. Now
Speaker 2: you're the person that has to do all the extra work.
Speaker 2: What's up, Tina?
Speaker 6: Hi, good morning, Good morning, guys, Good morning. So we
Speaker 6: had my husband and I have a plumbing company, and
Speaker 6: on one of our job sites, the guy came up
Speaker 6: to my husband and told him that he had to
Speaker 6: go home because it's Tina's hurt.
Speaker 1: Again, just say you have to go home.
Speaker 2: I would have I would have asked so many questions
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 1: Fantastic.
Speaker 6: My husband did ask a lot of questions. My husband
Speaker 6: doesn't have a social filter, so definitely had a fun
Speaker 6: time with it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's great, Miranda. What's up.
Speaker 2: It's Mojo in the morning. We're talking about crazy six
Speaker 2: day excuses.
Speaker 1: Hey, first time mon Miranda's on the phone.
Speaker 6: Hey, So I had an old coworker who called insit
Speaker 6: because her boyfriend had passed and she had a dashes
Speaker 6: and she called in sick because she stilled them.
Speaker 1: Oh noilled them. Oh it sucks. Valid.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's dallads very valid, but also like, did she right?
Speaker 2: What do you say to that? I sign the picture?
Speaker 2: Signed the picture. I want to see it, and the
Speaker 2: penis guy send a picture. What's going what's going on?
Speaker 1: Dennis? How you doing good?
Speaker 5: Good morning? How are you?
Speaker 1: We're good.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the craziest sick day excuses.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So, when I was an employee or when I was
Speaker 5: a manager at UPS, one of my employees texted me
Speaker 5: one day and he basically sent me about a three
Speaker 5: scroll page on I message about just some sob story.
Speaker 5: And at the end of it, I read that his
Speaker 5: girlfriend kicked him out of the car and he's been
Speaker 5: walking for the last five hours.
Speaker 1: That's the worst.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, And it ended up being that he was
Speaker 5: actually twenty minutes away because my boss saw him walking.
Speaker 2: Wow, you know what I would have said, We'll come
Speaker 2: get you and we'll get you into work.
Speaker 1: You know, I know this kid was a dope fiend
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: He was always itching and scratching, So I was okay
Speaker 1: with that. Josh, what's happening. It's Mojo in the morning, just.
Speaker 4: Calling about an employee us to work for me.
Speaker 6: And he called on the fourth of July and said
Speaker 6: that he was running late because he was at the
Speaker 6: Secretary of State.
Speaker 1: Dummy, did you call him out?
Speaker 6: Everything?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Not on the phone? Wait until he got there, and
Speaker 4: every employee.
Speaker 1: Called him out. That's awesome, a dummy.
Speaker 6: He never left. Let it down.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Hey, thanks, thank you for the call. We
Speaker 1: appreciate it. You can't sneak that in.
Speaker 2: And I sa at the end of the conversation, I
Speaker 2: appreciate you, buddy. Oh my god, this is crazy, Gina.
Speaker 6: You there, Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 1: What was the story?
Speaker 6: Okay, So I worked in HR at a factory and
Speaker 6: I had an employee of ours call in because he
Speaker 6: said his niece died and when they took her to
Speaker 6: the cornery that she woke up.
Speaker 1: Oh, when they took her to know then.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I was like, you are the you are
Speaker 6: the biggest liar ever. I was like so annoyed with
Speaker 6: this guy. And then I got home that night and
Speaker 6: I was watching the news and it was actually true.
Speaker 6: This was like a couple of years ago, and I
Speaker 6: don't know what happened. I guess she had a seizure
Speaker 6: and they thought she had passed and she did not pass.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, did you feel horrible?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 6: I was so mortified because I was really rude to him.