| It is dishonest to take a sickie when one knows that he or she will get double pay or pay and a half. |
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| His previous high flying career as a Stock Market financial wizard, had hit the buffers, when he pulled a sickie one infamous Friday. |
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| Mark pulled a sickie during the Davis Cup a few years back and was roundly canned by the Australian Media. |
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| Which reminds of the day last December when I took a sickie from work to go for a surf at 13 th Beach. |
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| The only sickie I ever pulled while I was teaching was back in 1987 on a day when I needed to see sea and not kids. |
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| As each hour passed, I tried to feign health in the same way some of you healthy people take unforeseen upset stomachs when you want a sickie. |
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| However, even if you can't pull a sickie, the armchair revolutionaries say you can still sabotage your company. |
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| It's not as if I can pull a sickie either, Tracy can tell when I'm swinging the lead. |
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| They urge people to take a sickie or nick off from school to celebrate the disobedience of orders. |
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| I want to call her and tell her to come over, but I wonder what she would do if she found out I had pulled a sickie. |
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| If I didn't know for a fact that they cannot survive without me I might start thinking that my dog and my sickie are in a cahoot to bump me off for my Insurance policy. |
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| So in future could wearables be used by third parties as more than just a simple tool for telling if you've pulled a sickie? |
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| The scene where they decide to pull a sickie is an especially good showcase for their excellent comic timing. |
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| If he doesn't want to do something, he doesn't allow himself to pull a sickie. |
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| I thought I will have a short walk with the dog and go to the chemist before settling down for the rest of the day at home as I had not spent any time with the sickie. |
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| Another staff member is forced to take a sickie to sort out their mother's urgent financial matter afraid of being refused a request for a couple of hours off. |
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| The reason that they do is that it costs something to go to work, and when that cost is deducted, one is, under the law now, always better off to have a sickie. |
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| Normally when I go out with friends I take my car in case I am called back home unexpectedly by the sickie, so it was nice to be driven for a change. |
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| I wished I could chuck a sickie, but it was only my second day at Forest Glen, so that was out of the question. |
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| For example, if an employee chucks a sickie, you need to check that they have enough sick leave available. |
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| Barring pulling a sickie and staying at home with your top off and the fan on full though your best bet might be to follow the lead of Vladimir Putin yesterday. |
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| But not all excuses for pulling a sickie are equal, it seems. |
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