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If you stopped going to work, how long would it take for someone to notice?

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oiprocs

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I'm an intern. If I didn't show up for a day, I would not make it to the second day without a phone call from my boss.

What about you? How long could you stay away without someone taking notice?

Let's say that you don't necessarily have to ignore emails and phone calls. So if you can maintain that communication BUT not actually go in-person to work, then that is okay.
 
Yeah, I'd probably get a call or text at 10AM - I'm one of 21 people, so it's not exactly easy to go unnoticed 😛
 
Originally posted by: scorpious
I'm an intern. If I didn't show up for a day, I would not make it to the second day without a phone call from my boss.

What about you? How long could you stay away without someone taking notice?

Let's say that you don't necessarily have to ignore emails and phone calls. So if you can maintain that communication BUT not actually go in-person to work, then that is okay.
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Edit: I selected 1 - 2wks.
 
I try to take scheduled time off and I still get phone calls. :|

I'd say I couldn't make it a day without someone noticing.
 
I can answer email and phone calls? Probably 1-2 weeks. I work on a support team that's split between two buildings and I work from home one day a week. If nobody saw me they would just assume I was in the other building. Even if my boss realized I wasn't in at all, she'd probably just ask how long I intend to work from home and why. As long as I had a good reason she likely wouldn't mind.

<--- working from home right now at 11am, about to go to work, and nobody has noticed I'm not there yet.
 
I could BS with my blackberry for a little while, but after an hour there would be some very pissed off people......
 
Every job I've had would call me if I wasn't there half an hour after my shift started. Even as intern, my office called me @ 9:30 (office opened at 9) after my power went out and my alarm didn't wake me in time.

Was also a communication director for a campaign, if I wasn't at a campaign meeting or such 10 minutes before it began I'd likely get a call.
 
If I?m not in by 8.45 (office opens at 9) people will start asking around, by 9.05 I'm getting texts and calls on my phone. Meanwhile others can traipse in at 9.30 and not be even noticed.

This is in a company of 16!
 
Originally posted by: Snapster
If I?m not in by 8.45 (office opens at 9) people will start asking around, by 9.05 I'm getting texts and calls on my phone. Meanwhile others can traipse in at 9.30 and not be even noticed.

This is in a company of 16!
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Are you the security guy who has to open the door?
 
I don't remember how long it took before someone noticed (weeks?), but it took 'em four years before they took away my cubicle. (And no, I wasn't fired, they just realized there was no need to spend money on having a cubicle for me.)
 
Probably a couple weeks for a coworker to question me about it.

But I could probably work from home indefinitely and no management would know any different. Everything I work on is remote anyway.

 
I voted 2-3 days but if I answer my cell phone and basically say "at a client site" I could easily go a week or more.


 
Originally posted by: Dirigible
I don't remember how long it took before someone noticed (weeks?), but it took 'em four years before they took away my cubicle. (And no, I wasn't fired, they just realized there was no need to spend money on having a cubicle for me.)
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Do you work in procurement? There's a guy at my company like that. People seem to talk to him maybe once every few weeks and assume he's still doing something related to work the rest of the time...
 
Most people in my office start around 8:30-9:00. I start around 9:30 as I work out most mornings.

However, we have a silly cube design with 4 workers per large cube (one at each corner), so my coworkers would definitely notice if I'm not there, probably by 10 or 10:30.

If I had my own cube, I'd say I could miss half a day and not be noticed.
 
I'm almost always in by 7:30. If I'm not in by 9:00 without some sort of email saying where I'd was I'd have phone calls from my boss on my cell phone and home phone.

I'm one of three admins for the enterprise. I wouldn't go unnoticed for very long.
 
Originally posted by: Dirigible
I don't remember how long it took before someone noticed (weeks?), but it took 'em four years before they took away my cubicle. (And no, I wasn't fired, they just realized there was no need to spend money on having a cubicle for me.)
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Did they replace you with a sculpture of you made out of butter?
 
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