Faux et usage de Faux

When reading this over, I saw the comment "a faux illness", which is faking
it etc. But it brought to mind a French criminal charge of "Faux et usage de
Faux", meaning not only false but you used it in some way. Of course this
is what Bush did done the line with the info "proving" (slam dunk) that
indeed WMDs exist. It was false information and he sure used it.

It came as a complete surprise that my fellow Americans would call in
sick, falsely. This is something that never happens in the rest
of the Western world!

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According to a recent survey conducted by Careerbuilder.com entitled, " Out
of the Office 2005 ", a whopping 43% of respondents revealed that they had
called in sick with a fake excuse in the last twelve months, up from 35% in
the 2004 survey.

Unfortunately for some employees, their day of hooky ended up with a pink
slip as 23% of managers surveyed reported that they had fired an employee
for missing work with a faux illness.

The most popular day for faking an illness was Wednesday (27%) followed
closely by Monday (26%) and Friday (14%). The most popular reasons for
calling in sick included catching up on sleep (23%) and simply not feeling
like working (17%). The excuses provided by employees ran the gamut from the
mundane to the exotic. The Careerbuilder.com survey highlighted some of the
more bizarre excuses provided to managers including:

I'm too drunk to drive to work.
My boyfriend's snake got loose and I'm afraid to leave the bedroom until he
gets home.
I'm too fat to get into my work pants.
My cow bit me.
My son accidentally fell asleep next to wet cement in our backyard. His foot
fell in and we can't get it out.
My house lock jammed and I'm locked in.