{"id":420,"date":"2005-10-06T07:36:25","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T15:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/shaun_buchanan_lies_about_having_the_runs.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:06:05","slug":"shaun_buchanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/shaun_buchanan.html","title":{"rendered":"Shaun Buchanan Lies About Having The Runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News has a difficult time finding New Yorkers willing to speak on the record about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/353004p-300952c.html\">a recent CareerBuilder.com survey that found that 43 percent of employees fake being ill in order to use sick days<\/a>. All except for Kmart supervisor Shaun Buchanan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Few of New York&#8217;s workers spoken to yesterday were willing to give their names, fearing repercussions from bosses.<\/p>\n<p>But Shaun Buchanan, 23, said, &#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;ve done that a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve taken sick days to play basketball or to go shopping. If I&#8217;m entitled to sick days, I&#8217;m going to take them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buchanan, from South Jamaica, Queens, was quick to say he suffered his rash of bogus illnesses long before he started work as a supervisor at Kmart.<\/p>\n<p>But he advised, &#8220;There&#8217;s no point in being too elaborate in your excuses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say I had a bad stomach. Nobody wants you at work if you&#8217;ve got the runs, and it clears up quickly.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Props to Shaun for saying what we&#8217;re thinking . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News has a difficult time finding New Yorkers willing to speak on the record about a recent CareerBuilder.com survey that found that 43 percent of employees fake being ill in order to use sick days. All except for Kmart supervisor Shaun Buchanan: Few of New York&#8217;s workers spoken to yesterday were willing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culturalanthropological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}