Feigning Ill

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This topic came up in an MSN chat with Jess. We were talking about being sick and I admitted that I used to pretend to be sick to get out of school because I never really got sick. While I don't like being ill, I seriously never caught anything. Students all around me could be hacking and coughing all over the place and I would still be perfectly fine. -__-

I'm sure everyone has feigned ill to get out of school once or twice. Have any of you ever feigned ill to get out of any other engagements?

I've done it to get out of work a few times but it was mostly when I worked at IBM. We could contact the supervisor via email there to let her know we wouldn't be in. Unfortunately at every other place I've worked, you have to call and I'm a terrible liar. :wacky: I always chicken out because I think they'll be suspicious.

I used to do it to get out of going to parties sometimes as well. I'm a generally shy person and I tend to feel awkward at large social gatherings. On the other hand, some of my friends are very outgoing and social. I would rarely go to parties if they weren't at a friends house. If I didn't know the person hosting it, I would just say I wasn't feeling well and stay home.
 
Interesting topic. I actually remember calling in for work feigning ill back in 2007. I worked at a retail store and I had graveyard shift as a cashier for Meijer. They would always send me out in the rain or snow somewhere between 1 - 3 AM either pushing carts in and/or sweeping the lot with a broom and dustpan. I remember thinking, "I wish I would get sick so I can call in for work one of these nights" but I never did...even though I was the hardest worker there. For months I waited for illness to strike me. I actually caught a cold a few times but I still went to work since I'm kinda OCD about my attendance. I worked at Meijer for 8 months with no absences and towards the last month (when I have already given my two weeks notice), I decided to call in just for the hell of it. Just to feel what it's like to call in. xD So I feigned ill (although nothing to the extreme - just that I'm sick and such) and didn't come in to work. It felt so weird.

That's the only time I can recall doing that though. There's probably other cases, but generally I really don't like doing it.
 
Of course I've done that once or twice! It was usually when I was really tired, or too depressed or something, though. I never actually got to skip because I have a huge concious.
 
I did it once or twice back in high school, after those times though my mother caught on and sent me to school regardless if i was sick or not. The last time i feigned sick was to go watch iron man, i called in to tell my boss i was working for at the time i was sick and i couldn't go :p That day was awesome.
 
I dont do it. I cant really act well,so I am always caught. I tried to feign ill once and I feigned the wrong thing. It helped, though. I was trying to feign ill and turns out I was interpreted to have down syndrome -__-
 
Yeah I have and can feign ill alittle too well.
I have a tendency to actually get ill when I fake it.
Quite funny really.
Have done it to get out of sticky situations and also just our of complete tierdness.
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Nah, I never really have. My mom's a nurse, and worked in a hospital pretty much her whole adult life, so short of me bleeding profusely and/or projectile vomiting, I was going to school.

I can't really afford to turn down money in my situation now, so if I get called in to work, I go.
 
I couldn't get away with that. I am a terrible liar, so my parents would figure out easily if I was lying.
 
I think I did once...

It was in the first year of high school (about 13 or 14) and it was a day I'd been dreading for weeks as we had to go in for French and sing and dance a silly French song about ghosts, purely for the excercise of learning words. I understand the fun that could give people, and I'd have loved to see other people make fools of themselves, but I was too self conscious for all of that stuff. :D

I was really, really anxious about having to do it... And it really was a silly thing, not assessed or anything, so I decided to become ill on that day. I felt guilty about it though, but I think for the time I needed to do that to escape as there was no other option (apart from running away of course, but that would be extreme). There was no way I was going to sing about ghosts and run around all cheesy-like going "ooooooohhh!", and clicking my fingers (which I couldn't even do at the time) and do a whole performance just for the sake of the teacher trying to get down with it. Stuff that. :ness:
 
Cardiac Kid, expand if you would =)

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Anyway well I find myself never really feigning ill these days unless I'm truly sick. When I get sick I get sick sick.. so I have a few days off. In high school though, I would come up with excuses on certain days just to play a final fantasy game or something or get caught up on a home work assignment... So yea.. =)

From sports sometimes I did feign ill, because I didn't wanna have to deal with obligations from the coach. I mean sometimes coaches erk me in the way they coach, but I'm a good follower, just hate seeing my friend shafted for being short.. and such very disheartening.. or another friend shafted because he showed up late because his parents don't have easy means of transportation..
 
I don't think Ive ever pretended to be ill....unless you count pretending to be ill when really Im just hungover and ringing in work 'sick'

I probably exaggerate abit when Im ill but that's about it
 
I'm not one for calling in sick even when I am actually sick. So it's not often I take a sickie.

I remember all last month all I wanted was to go home every day and just sleep in bed until I got better, but I never once took a day off.

I feel guilty if I do. It's like I feel like I'm not allowed to be sick. >.< I think it's due to my last boss being such an ass when it came to calling in sick.

I would ring up and he would just go 'Okay' and hang up on you and make you feel terrible after you got off the phone.

At least at this new job they're understanding a bit more, but I still feel bad if I call in. >.<
 
My sister occasionally pretends to coincidentally have the exact same condition I have to get out of school, which is pretty frustrating. The fact that it comes and goes to her benefit is a dead giveaway, considering constant illness doesn't really work that way.
 
I often feign illness just to get out of maths tests. My maths teacher (who happens to be my homeroom teacher) noticed that all my sick notes are on the day maths tests are on and she called my parents, and told them that it may just be that I faked being sick. She got that spot on. Now both of my parents believe me no longer.

Damn, teacher intervention (and maths).
 
I've never done this. I basically have to be very ill to call out of work. Back when I was in school, I would never take days off for being sick. It was to the point where my parents would have to talk me into staying out of school.

I called out of work for the first time since working here for over 2 years because I was sick. Sadly enough, I woke up in the morning with plans to go to work and just felt like I would never get better if I keep forcing myself to go to work. I still wasnt recovering and ended up going to a clinic before work on another day and got some medication (something else I don't do). So a missed day and another day that I was 3 hours late, so I was pretty damn sick. People I work with have been getting medication for the same thing lately, so this sickness has been dubbed "The Dan Virus". I even got a "Dan Virus" quarantine kit for a Secret Santa gift this year. -__-
 
When I was in high school, I would never fall ill until Friday evening or during the holidays. It amused me a bit, and it also irritated me a bit as well. I honestly thought my body has a mind of its own and dictates when it wants to cripple my immune system. So in high school, I would mostly be there every day.

As for feigning an illness, I've only done it twice when I was in high school. One time was when I was twelve. I hated PE and I never liked it. They made us go cross country. I pretended I was dizzy right before it. It was lucky I did skip it because my class ran into a wasp's nest and half of them were stung by wasps.

The other time was when I was fourteen. A few of us were chosen to visit Manchester university for a lecture. A couple of these people were my friends. They dropped out. I didn't fancy going without them so I dropped out too, telling them I was dizzy. Again.

I never liked to skip days off school anyway. It would result in a LOT of work to catch up if you did, even if it was only one missed school day. I have incidentally, excused myself from some of my shifts in my part time job.
 
I would usually go to school everyday just because I hardly ever got sick. -__-. I do think I did it a few times while I was in school. One year I feign being sick because everyone else was sick(out of my fam) and I didn't want the only one going to school and the inory of that is when I went back to school and I ended up actually being sick. Everytime I would either be sick, or fake sick i'd alwayys be like thinking to myself "and i'd be in 4th period now' so it was always weird to me and thats why I didn't do it often plus the makeup work just piles up.
I don't ever really recall calling in sick just so I wouldnt have to go to work unless I reaaally hated the job. I do remember when I was younger I was invited to a quince she made us pick our dance partners and I told her to find me one, which never happened. I never got an partner so I just told her that I was feeling sick just because i'd feel strange being the only one without a partner >_<
 
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Last year at this time, I called in sick to work to go to hang out with my friend on her birthday. She told me at the last minute and i really did want to spend time with her because our schedules almost never coincide.

Another time I called off because I looked at the schedule and saw that we were going to be severely understaffed for a big sale day. So I took the attitude of "fuck that" and called in sick :)
 
I raaaaaaaaarely feign ill... although I'm always getting accused of it. I get sick A LOT. I've missed full weeks of school this year... once for strep throat when I had to get stronger medicine because the standard doesn't work, and again when I had H1N1 or whatever the fuck they're calling it now xD Plus just random days where I didn't feel good... I've probably missed 15-25 days of school this year.

So no... I don't need to fake 8F I can't afford to miss any more school as it is.
 
I tried afew times in high school, never worked. But once I was so bad I was coughing up blood, teachers freaked and had to get my granddad to get me. My mum didnt believe I was ill cause I cried wolf so many times. College I didnt fake, if I wanted to bunk off I did. Same with university. But I was seriously ill for a week once at uni, my lecturers were awesome at understanding.
 
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