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# World Phone In Sick Day
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/world-phone-in-sick-day/
- Published: 1999-02-26T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-01T10:31:18.000Z
- Description: World Phone in Sick Day celebrates its 3rd year on the 6th April 1999 this year and we thought you might want to get a piece of…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: SEEDS, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

World Phone in Sick Day celebrates its 3rd year on the 6th April 1999 this year and we thought you might want to get a piece of the action. Described as, “the annual holiday for idlers, slackers, anarchists and workers of the world” WPISD has had a great response in previous years, inspiring a lightning call-in-sick strike by prison guards at Wormwood Scrubs, as well as a sick out by up to 80% of Irish police after a spokesman appeared on RTE.  
  
The 1997 phone in sick day culminated in British Airways workers phoning in sick en-masse instead of striking in a dispute with management. Some 2000 BA staff took part.   
  
So, if you think this sounds like a good idea, check out their site for more information. However, if you work for yourselves, like us, I can see it causing a few problems.