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23. Rene Marsh seems to favor the "calling out sick" phrasing

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 05:51 PM

Jan 2019

She is the one of the two writers listed on the byline and she uses that same phrase in her tweet promoting the article.

Link to tweet

Also - some other CNN-affiliated twitter feeds use that phrase as well.

Maybe that is more commonly used than I thought it was.

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First on CNN: Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at major airports [View all] brooklynite Jan 2019 OP

Shouldn't it be "calling in sick" ? oberliner Jan 2019 #1

Yes. You call in to the workplace to tell them you'll be out sick. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2019 #3

I wonder if they will change the headline oberliner Jan 2019 #6

yeah, you call in to work. mobeau69 Jan 2019 #4

We say' called out' more often. GulfCoast66 Jan 2019 #28

We always said "called in" ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2019 #46

yes CountAllVotes Jan 2019 #5

That is a true nit you have picked. Got anything else? Hekate Jan 2019 #8

It just jumped out at me when I read the headline oberliner Jan 2019 #9

Yeah, I wondered if it was a term specific to the TSA or something! LisaM Jan 2019 #17

Oddly, it is used throughout the article oberliner Jan 2019 #19

Probably got the article from a freelancer. LisaM Jan 2019 #21

Rene Marsh seems to favor the "calling out sick" phrasing oberliner Jan 2019 #23

It is different. I read it a few times before it clicked. I am not familiar with that riversedge Jan 2019 #31

In NYC they do often say "call out sick" violetpastille Jan 2019 #32

strange to me. I am a midwesterner. Lived in the west for a while and NM but riversedge Jan 2019 #33

And in NYC they stand "on" line, not in line like the rest of us. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2019 #38

Interestingly, the NY Times uses "calling in sick" in their tweet on this topic oberliner Jan 2019 #40

trying to derail the thread? CreekDog Jan 2019 #41

No? oberliner Jan 2019 #42

The answer is yes CreekDog Jan 2019 #44

Many news outlets have been getting sloppy for a while IronLionZion Jan 2019 #14

You can say that again! oberliner Jan 2019 #16

I'm thinking now it could be a regional thing oberliner Jan 2019 #24

It may be regional, as you pointed out Docreed2003 Jan 2019 #37

I say Tom-A-to... Juneboarder Jan 2019 #36

Good Sherman A1 Jan 2019 #2

The one agency hated as much as ICE IronLionZion Jan 2019 #7

+1 CountAllVotes Jan 2019 #10

Good points Hekate Jan 2019 #12

If the TSA really wanted to protect us they should stop strip searching and anal probing people cstanleytech Jan 2019 #34

+1 violetpastille Jan 2019 #35

TSA is protected from being prosecuted for sexual assault charges IronLionZion Jan 2019 #39

Maybe the idea of nation wide workers strike is forming. nt NCjack Jan 2019 #11

Federal employees can't go on strike. Quemado Jan 2019 #29

A lot of people cannot work PatSeg Jan 2019 #13

How many paychecks have they missed? Igel Jan 2019 #20

I'm wondering durablend Jan 2019 #15

yeah but that's not gonna happen FromMissouri Jan 2019 #27

So let me get this straight. ON the border, where we don't need extra security.. LisaM Jan 2019 #18

Why would they do such a thing. Cold War Spook Jan 2019 #22

This cannot be angrychair Jan 2019 #25

Can't blame them myself. How can any KPN Jan 2019 #26

Don't often say told you so, but told you so. GulfCoast66 Jan 2019 #30

The way that trump is treating the public servants is horrible Gothmog Jan 2019 #43

What if Border Patrol agents did this, too? Liberty Belle Jan 2019 #45