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Awol

Ms_manchester · 2021-01-15 01:18:22

Sorry guys, so I overslept (yes I know my fault and were working from home) so a manager calls me at 8 minutes into my shift and wakes me up. I answered the call apologised and was logged within the next 5 minutes. They have marked me down 10 mins AWOL. I've worked there a while and this has never happened before, very…

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TELLIT01 Posts: 18,275 Forumite

16 January 2021 at 9:19AM

AWOL is used generically now to indicate that somebody wasn't where they were supposed to be and didn't have permission not to be there. Much like 'Hoover' is, or was, used for all vacuum cleaners.

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