Skipping school or work

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So, just curious if anyone of you skipped school. If so, when was the earliest you skipped?

My mom and I were talking yesterday about the first time I ever skipped school. I was in kindergarten. She thought all of these years that I got so distracted at something in my environment that I got lost on my way to school. She was surprised when I told her that I consciously skipped. I did not want to go to school and be forced to play the kitchen pretend games and because of that I would play alone. Sing those dang ABC's once again. Being forced to cut and hold a pencil or crayon a certain way. So, I just didn't want to go. I decided to sit on the side of someones house and watch the gas meter (didn't know that's what it was). I just looked at the numbers, wondered what it was. I ended up being bored yet it wasn't as bad as going to kindergarten.

So, every year after that if I hadn't missed school in a while I would fake sick. I deserved to have some time off. I did it in the 1st grade on up. I skipped a lot in high school. Sometimes just walking off to have a cigeratte, alone. I don't smoke anymore, it was just in HS. If you saw me, you would laugh. I look extremely innocent and young for being 35 years old (look 19).

I can't skip work, though because I have so many darn meetings.

I was teased a lot, teachers were unhelpful, so I started getting out of school any way I could starting first grade.
My attendance was one of the main issues throughout my time in school.

In high school, though, I was in an experimental special ed class. By the end of high school, I was in school almost as many days as required! :-p
I basically weighed goign to school against dealing with drama at home, and that SpEd class ultimately won.

I was 'sick' all the time to get out of school, and made up so many excuses to get out of recess my teachers called home and told my parents I needed to be seen by a doctor because my legs/arms/back/whatever were hurting me so much all the time. I used to call in sick to work all the time, but now I work alone so I don't mind and never miss...it's the dealing with people I don't like, not the work itself.

I can only remember faking being sick in second grade. I got caught and mom took me to school.

I also skipped classes at the end of the school year when I was in high school because they were boring, there was no school work and all kids would do was socialize and hang out. I found that boring and why waste my time in class if I could spend it at the town library?

I never skipped class until college. I started skipping classes in my sophomore years for various reasons like because my dorm room is such a mess and I could not find any time while studying.

I only skipped once in HS when we were supposed to give an oral report that I was really dreading. I didn't even skip in college.
Going to class was the easy part, so I always did it. The actual work.. I did a lot less often.

In Primary School and High School, I never skipped any School days unless I was actually sick.

Uni was different though. In my current course, I skip the days where there's only 1 lecture for the whole day. I just download the lecture and listen to it at home instead coz it saves me the time on transportation.

I constantly skip school, even now. I know I shouldn't, and that bad attendance doesn't look good on my records, but my test scores and grades should more than make up for it. I go to an alternative school for bad kids now though.

My family stayed up until midnight so by Friday I could not wake up to go to school and was very depressed. My mom let me skip as much as I wanted. The middle school did not know what to do with me and did not help me at all.

In high school, I skipped when I was tired/depressed and also to avoid a paper or test that was due. HS was hell as I was mute, could not talk when kids approached me. When I saw my guidance counselor my junior year, she said "your classmates say you are lonely and depressed." As far as interventions, that was it. I got no help at school, just a few comments from teachers and pressure to keep up with due dates. I still don't understand why my counselor could not have found me another isolated student who was looking for a friend or arranged for me to play basketball with other isolated students on the school playground.

I don't think I ever skipped school - too scared of being caught and punished, and of missing the lessons when I was already behind. Similar for college and work - I skipped college once, it was "day release" and the place turned out to be closed, so I went home instead of going to work.....the following day the people at work asked me if I'd been at college yesterday, I admitted I hadn't but pretended I hadn't realised I was supposed to go to work, so I got off with a warning.

I've thrown one or two sickies to escape from my day job for a little while, but I can only recall one time when I really wasn't feeling particularly ill. My partner had asked for some help with her college project and it was the only way I could find the time to complete the mission.

Other than that, it depends on your definition of being really too sick to work. One time they stressed me out by trying to force too much responsibilty onto my shoulders - they have this way of screwing more out of people by declaring them "responsible" for a piece of work, then they increase the demands of the work and the insinuation is that it's the worker's duty to do whatever it takes to ensure everything gets done; then they take away resources and leave the onus on the worker to complain. I freaked out and stayed away for a few days.....my GP wouldn't support me (quite baffling as a few months earlier he'd been the one who had told me I was suffering from stress, and got me to attend his stress clinic, when I was saying I thought my dizzy spells were just an ear infection or something), so I self-certified. As the management then couldn't call me in to pressurise me into accepting the new terms, they let me off - if they'd set it in stone they wouldn't have known whether I was going to do it or not, and they didn't have much time before the work started, so they panicked and gave it to somebody they were more sure of. There had been a history of people going off sick with stress for months and then never returning.

They insinuated that I hadn't really been ill - they always seem to do that to people when they're not sure - but of course they couldn't prove anything. I'd certainly had a lot of anxiety over those few days, and lost a lot of sleep. I'd have been able to work if I'd been able to trust the management to treat me respectfully....but if they'd been able to do that then the problem would never have arisen in the first place. I've often wished I'd had the bottle to just tell them I wasn't going to take their "responsibility" and invited them to get me disciplined if they thought they had a case, but I've often notice that nobody else has dared to take that road, so I'd have stood out as their most belligerent worker.

Overall my sickness record is pretty good, and I don't think they deserve such good attendance from their staff, considering the way they treat them. It seems that when a worker does less work for the same pay, it's a misdemeanour, but when the management forces the staff to do more work for the same pay, it's OK.