yesterday Did you stay at home and pretending you did not go to work sick? According to a study published a few years ago (which I have not found a trace on the internet that may not exist), the first Monday in February in Britain is the biggest day of absenteeism throughout the year. That is why this day is known lately humorously as the National Sickie Day . You may have regarding the Saddest Day of the year , the saddest day of the year, which falls on January 26 and was also recently discovered. " Sickie" is a slang word quite nice. expression used to pull / throw / chuck a sickie , refers to the practice of missing work or illness alleging false. Last year a study sponsored by the CBI British employers revealed that 12% of work absences due to health were false [the study arrived at this figure by a rather dubious method: asking many entrepreneurs thought absences were feigned sickness].
Besides potentially interested surveys, the sickie another interesting element of the British labor folklore. As always, the British have not only a concrete expression to talk about this phenomenon but it appears quite frequently in newspaper articles .
Links: National
sickie day
The art of the sickie (BBC)
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