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  2. 10 Hilarious Excuses for Missing Work That People Have ... - AOL

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    From not being able to find parking to pet goats gone wild, here are 10 hilarious excuses people have really used to get out of going to work.

  3. Self-handicapping - Wikipedia

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    There are two methods that people use to self-handicap: behavioral and claimed self-handicaps. People withdraw effort or create obstacles to successes so they can maintain public and private self-images of competence. Self-handicapping is a widespread behavior amongst humans that has been observed in a variety of cultures and geographic areas.

  4. The 10 Worst Excuses For Missing Work - AOL

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    We all have to pay the bills, but sometimes the office is literally the last place in the universe you want to be. The reasons can run the gamut, but life has a way of occurring just when a ...

  5. “What Celebrity Keeps Getting Away Unscathed With Awful ...

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    Image credits: Vanquish_Dark #2. Chris brown just won a Grammy. anonyvrguy: When I saw him on the masked singer, I stopped watching the show. velorae: It’s not only the Rihanna incident.

  6. Rationalization (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Quintilian and classical rhetoric used the term color for the presenting of an action in the most favourable possible perspective. [5] Laurence Sterne in the eighteenth century took up the point, arguing that, were a man to consider his actions, "he will soon find, that such of them, as strong inclination and custom have prompted him to commit, are generally dressed out and painted with all ...

  7. Refusal of work - Wikipedia

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    that one of the strong ideas of the movement of autonomy proletarians during the 70s was the idea "precariousness is good". Job precariousness is a form of autonomy from steady regular work, lasting an entire life. In the 1970s many people used to work for a few months, then to go away for a journey, then back to work for a while.

  8. Ergophobia - Wikipedia

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    The number of ergophobia cases increases with the number of people working in an ergophobia conducting environment, regardless of changes in the rates reported of ergophobia itself. [12] The changing circumstances of employer-employee relations has also been significantly altered by this evolution to a service-based economy. [ 13 ]

  9. Some experts say Santa’s ‘naughty or nice’ list can be ...

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    Some mental health experts, however, say characterizing children as "good" or "bad" on a list can limit personal growth and inflict shame, sometimes for developmentally appropriate behavior.