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

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Probably a day or two. I'm often out and about on assignments so it's not abnormal for me to be in the office a total of 10 minutes when I'm not on deadline.
 
my last job had me out of the office alot fixing stuff. assuming i could answer e-mails and sign off on my timecard, i could have easily gone a few days, maybe a few weeks. i saw my manager for 1 hour a week at our weekly group meeting. other than that, i was left alone. too bad the job was boring and i hated it.

current job, 1/2 a day before i get phone calls checking in on me. much smaller office.
 
I am usually the first one here by a long shot, so it would take about 2 hours.

KT
 
Me, within an hour or two in the morning, by the next morning if I vanished in the afternoon.

One of my coworkers actually does vanish for 3 or 4 days at a time. She'll call in on Monday saying she'll be in Tuesday, then zero contact until she shows up on Friday. None of us care anymore, we've gotten used to being down a person. If we can make her take care of anything on the one day she's in, it's a bonus.
 
It varies. A few months ago I'm pretty sure it would have taken at least a week. Now, it'd probably be a couple days.

Also depends on "notices you're gone" vs "cares about it". Someone might notice I'm not here any day, but it'd definitely take more than one day for anyone to do anything about it.
 
I'm the only IT person in the building that I sit in, the rest of our team is on our main campus. Because of that I could probably be gone a couple of days before anyone noticed, provided there were no emergency tickets that I had to handle. I couldn't do an entire week though because my manager would get wind when he ran the ticket report at the end of the week and saw I didn't close any tickets.
 
Originally posted by: SonnyDaze
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.
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I'm off on short term disability (surgery) and started receiving e-mails and calls within a day. Some were to check on me, others were to ask questions.

Manager really freaked out when IT cut off my account because I was marked as "inactive" because of the short term disability classification, lol! 😛

He called 3 times and kept in touch with IT until HR filled out a form for an exception.

I told him I might need a little more time and he freaked out and offered me a wheelchair on the plant floor to get around with, lol! 😛
 
Originally posted by: scorpious
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?
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Nope, everyone can get in with their keys and alarm codes.
 
I work from home, so no one would notice I'm not in the office. If I could maintain communication but not complete any of my work, I could last until my next deadline. I have work that is due every two weeks.
 
Probably less than 45 minutes before my boss called me. If I were to die in my apartment though, my corpse wouldn't be noticed until the neighbors complained of a smell.
 
My business would stop making money if I weren't there. I think I might notice my absence, as would my customers.
 
If I'm not "in and ready to work" by 8AM, my boss has an ulcer.

"You're late"
"It's exactly 8AM right now"
"Exactly, you need to be ready to work by 8. It's not that I want to be a prick, but if the other guys see you coming in at 8 they will think it's okay if they do it too"

His words, not mine.

I actually got written up a couple weeks ago for coming in at 8:01AM. Him, the HR lady, and I were sitting in a back room, and it was almost funny listening to him lecture me for being one minute late. There were a few times that I cracked a smile, then got back into character and took it like a bitch.
 
Originally posted by: James Bond
If I'm not "in and ready to work" by 8AM, my boss has an ulcer.

"You're late"
"It's exactly 8AM right now"
"Exactly, you need to be ready to work by 8. It's not that I want to be a prick, but if the other guys see you coming in at 8 they will think it's okay if they do it too"

His words, not mine.

I actually got written up a couple weeks ago for coming in at 8:01AM. Him, the HR lady, and I were sitting in a back room, and it was almost funny listening to him lecture me for being one minute late. There were a few times that I cracked a smile, then got back into character and took it like a bitch.
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I'd be looking for a new damn job.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
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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Damn, that would be awesome! Sadly, no. I don't think they understand that things are better with butter.

Nah, my boss is hundreds of miles away from my former cubicle. The people I work with are hundreds of miles away from my former cubicle, but in a different direction than my boss. I was doing everything via phone and email anyway so there wasn't really any point to me wasting time commuting.
 
Originally posted by: TruePaige
Originally posted by: James Bond
If I'm not "in and ready to work" by 8AM, my boss has an ulcer.

"You're late"
"It's exactly 8AM right now"
"Exactly, you need to be ready to work by 8. It's not that I want to be a prick, but if the other guys see you coming in at 8 they will think it's okay if they do it too"

His words, not mine.

I actually got written up a couple weeks ago for coming in at 8:01AM. Him, the HR lady, and I were sitting in a back room, and it was almost funny listening to him lecture me for being one minute late. There were a few times that I cracked a smile, then got back into character and took it like a bitch.
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I'd be looking for a new damn job.
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One day. I am the clown on my project team. i am the glue that holds us together ...
 
My boss would not notice unless someone specifically asked him about me. I talk to him maybe once every month or two.

Normal coworkers would notice within a few hours.
 
I'm the DBA and own a lot of processes so I always have someone looking for me starting around 7:00am. That's about when I wake up, some I greeted with emails as I take my shower. I know I get IM's in the morning at home asking where I am. I really can't wait until I can find someone to work for me.
 
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