...to consider feigning illness at work so I can go home and enjoy the sun?

[holmesgirl]

We hardly ever get nice weather, and I feel aggrieved to be sitting in this stuffy office, especially when I can see people from my window having a lovely time in the sun.

I know my cat would love an afternoon sitting in the sun with me so it's not completely selfish, is it?

Yeah, cos you won't get rumbled.

Sunny Monday and hey presto...sudden mystery illness

yabu. besides your on here so hardly working are you. go outside for your lunch.

Well as a boss, I sent all my staff outside to play this morning; they are all suncreamed up with hats & water bottles. While I am stuck in the office mumsnetting working - I feel most envious

did I mention I run a nursery?

two things....

first, if you get sunburnt, you will look a bit of a prat going in tomorrow and explaining that away

secondly, it is sods law that if you did skive off, the sun would go away and it would rain anyway...

and if you are in the south east, we have forecasts for thunderstorms this afternoon anyway grrrrr...

YABU

Don't fake illness.

What kind of work do you do? If it's task-based rather than time-based could you ask to take the afternoon off if you make up the work by working later the rest of this week (when it's not so nice)?

I'm not going to really. Was just nice to consider fantasise.

KatyMac I want to work for you

Off to enjoy my Marksy's sandwich on the grass!

Yabu, this is why I'm a nanny :o

I'm going on holiday in a mo - !

Oh no, never fake illness. My mum always said, if we ever hinted at throwing a sicky, that if you did you would end up being proper ill in your own time. Sod's law and all that. If you throw a sicky now, we are guaranteed to have a glorious sunny Jubilee weekend and you are guaranteed to be stuck indoors struck down by some horrible lurgy. My mum is never wrong.

Btw, it is sunny here now, but there was a shower earlier - it could be coming your way!

YANBU if you are prepared to go into work on a wet saturday or sunday and not get paid.

let me be the first to trot out that tired old expression "what if EVERYONE decided to do that........".

Okay BBB, I am gonn slog away in anticipation of the glorious sunny Jubilee weekend; if it rains I'm holding your mum responsible!

Have a fab holiday KenNEddie! I'm not jealous at all.

*gonna

Ah now you say that you have to throw a sicky - all for the greater good, you understand. If you don't, it is bound to rain. Only if you pull a sicky will it be gloriously sunny. You'll be stuck indoors of course but the rest of us would be fine.

Or you could just blame my mum. I do!