Ever play hooky from work to cut wood?
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thepheniox
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Hmmm. In some circles this is called evidence.
WVwoodsman
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I have done this before, because cutting wood was more exciting than sitting in a cubicle!
ponyexpress976
nipple fritters
I'm pleading the 5th on this one......
stihlrookie
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No, but I did need to use a sick day after receiving a concussion and six stitches in my forehead from a sapling whipping me on a Sunday while cutting firewood. I had also "borrowed" my company truck and had to have my wife return it since I was decommissioned.
Constrictor
ArboristSite Operative
sick days are great for doing this. I always hate to waste a good sick day on illness.
Rob1276
ArboristSite Member
Isn't it amazing that sometimes something as simple as taking a day off work brings such enjoyment a day in the woods cutting or well for that matter a day just outside doing anything
No, but it's tempting sometimes. :hmm3grin2orange:
I'm doing it this afternoon. 36f and sunny. Have comp time from working a saturday morning a couple weeks ago..
Fuzly
ArboristSite Operative
Ever had a job at home you really needed to get done outdoors and the weather was perfect and the only thing stopping you was your job?
No, me neither:biggrin:
No, me neither:biggrin:
zogger
Tree Freak
Nope....
Nope...never did that one, but tell ya what I did do once back in my 20s...called into the factory at around 10 am after not showing...got the foreman "where are you, what's going on"? (normally joe reliable, no days off, always on time, etc)
I sez "having woman trouble here.." "What"? "yep, I'm in bed with a beautiful woman (with giggles in the background from her) and it's just too much trouble to come to work today"...
Didn't get fired neither and he was laughing when he hung up....
Nope...never did that one, but tell ya what I did do once back in my 20s...called into the factory at around 10 am after not showing...got the foreman "where are you, what's going on"? (normally joe reliable, no days off, always on time, etc)
I sez "having woman trouble here.." "What"? "yep, I'm in bed with a beautiful woman (with giggles in the background from her) and it's just too much trouble to come to work today"...
Didn't get fired neither and he was laughing when he hung up....
c5rulz
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As a retired Police Officer I suggest: Admit nothing, deny everything, demand proof
Or as comedian Ron White says, I had the right to remain silent, but not the ability to use it.:hmm3grin2orange:
Or as comedian Ron White says, I had the right to remain silent, but not the ability to use it.:hmm3grin2orange:
Gamedic
ArboristSite Member
I had tickets to a concert a couple months ago, but I didn't go. I stayed home and cut a big oak.
branchbuzzer
Undiagnosed
How do you play hooky to cut wood if that's all ya do? I suppose I could go bowling...
Krud kutter
ArboristSite Lurker
sometimes it is just more fun to go let some chips fly kind of a stress reliver for me out there just you and the saw having fun smellin than 2 cycle gas burnin think i might have to call in to work with a case of it myself:hmm3grin2orange:
Steve NW WI
Unwanted Riff Raff.
Not often. That's the beauty of working the 3-11 shift. I can cut a load like this one in the morning before work and still get to work on time. Usually after a good morning of wood cutting, I'm tired and need to go to work and relax anyway! This was this morning's load, I left the house at 10:00 and was home by 12:30, cutting about 8 miles away:
That's my 3rd load this week, and I hope to get a couple more this weekend. Tomorrow I have to get splitting and get the truck empty though. Lots of tops in there, I most of what needs splitting is visible in the pic, shouldn't take more than an hour or so to split and stack.
I also follow the rule of never waste a sick day being sick. Most of mine get burned in the summer, when I can sit in the boat, drink beer, and think up fish stories to tell the next day at work. Wednesday is my favorite sick day, everyone else likes Friday or Monday, but take a Wed off and you've got a mini weekend and a 2 day week on either side of it.
That's my 3rd load this week, and I hope to get a couple more this weekend. Tomorrow I have to get splitting and get the truck empty though. Lots of tops in there, I most of what needs splitting is visible in the pic, shouldn't take more than an hour or so to split and stack.
I also follow the rule of never waste a sick day being sick. Most of mine get burned in the summer, when I can sit in the boat, drink beer, and think up fish stories to tell the next day at work. Wednesday is my favorite sick day, everyone else likes Friday or Monday, but take a Wed off and you've got a mini weekend and a 2 day week on either side of it.
zogger
Tree Freak
Hey, what's that funny lookin' white dirt stuff all over the ground?
Got freeking spring peepers peeping here, dandelions out, crocuses (? something like that..) up and yellow flowers, saw one skeeter the other day and now flashflood warnings and tornadoes...ain't that special.
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