Sick Leave tactic...

One outfit I worked for, had not been there very long, we were tasked with going out on a service call, and "things worked out" that all of the shop RF service monitors were being used by others. My partner says, "get your light bulb and get on your unicycle"

Of course I didn't know what that meant, and it turns out that some time before I came there, the boss had told one of them "I don't care if all you have is a light bulb and a unicycle, get out there and........."

(Most of the time, fortunately, that was not the company's attitude)