Why People Take “Sick Days”
January 24th, 2008 by 
Bradley Denton
Posted in Brad, Daily Life, Dammit!, Disability, Graphs, Health and Safety, Labor Relations, People, Science, Writing, Zombies | 
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January 25th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Oh, yeah. As our readership continues to increase, we should get a bigger piece of the pie, too….
January 25th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Pie? There’s pie? Is there coffee too? I’ll have a slice of apple–if there is apple–and a large coffee with milk, please.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Hope you feel better, Brad.
January 25th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Hey, all this tells me is that I’m so old that I can’t read that tiny print!
January 25th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Take a sick day, Sara. Then try again.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Wait a minute? You mean “shattered” or “psychotic” are reasons NOT to go to work?
I thought humans spent much of their lives trying to find like souls…
January 26th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I feel less bad about not posting last week…and now i have an excuse…