Excuses for Missing a Day of Work
By t_coffee_or_me •
can't come in to work today because I'll be stalking my previous boss, who fired me for not showing up for work. OK
The dog ate my car keys. We're going to hitchhike to the vet.
Plz add as u pass by
I was hurt watering a plant just before I was to leave home that morning. The yukka has such sharp leaves and as I watered it that morning it scratched me on the eyeball.
I couldn't see so couldn't go out.
Though true I was surprised work believed me.
My boss might hear
Wow Jauntie you have some good nerves to make that stuff up. The leg one cracked me up. That would have been embarassing but probably funny more funny that they all went along with it rather than confronted you. Ha.
I wouldn't doubt that people come up with crazy excuses for missing work. It's hard to go from school where you have 3 months off to working where you get maybe 1 week or 2. Gotta sneak a day here and there when you can.
Always turn up on a Monday - you can always feign illness AFTER you get there, so's you are sent home, but it looks bad if you don't appear first. :P
I worked temporarily in a Personnel Office and had the task of updating a computer programme with people's days off sick.
You'd be surprised how obvious it all was. Always the day after a holiday week end, or on a Monday. Some of the employees knew exactly how many sick days off they could take before they would lose any salary, and they took the maximum!
The excuse I disliked the most as a reason for not coming into work was: 'I am suffering from trapped wind'. I mean, like we want you in the office if it ISN'T trapped!!!???? ewwwwwww
And, of course, women used all the most embarrassing ailments and symptoms they could think of to discourage their male bosses for asking any questions. :D
why did u delete the spicy food bit and the one about the boss?
ps wish i had a boss like urs lol
do it right - the first time!
My favourite excuse was,"my stomach is upset"..They would defenitely dont want the office stinking..Woud they?? lol
how many of you have actually put these to work.....meaning taken off work with lame excuses......i for one cant... probabaly get too nervous an fumble......?do it right - the first time!
There was this other time when my Boss had trouble believing that some deranged woman tried to get me arrested for bumping into her on the escalator at Marble Arch Tube Station.
She called a young policeman over and insisted he took my name and address. To give him his due, it only took him all of 5 minutes to realise she was stark staring mad!
He looked from me to her, sized up the situation and said to me:
'Do you want to give this lady your name and address?' and before I could draw breath, he turned back to her and said: 'She doesn't want to', then nodded at me to make a quick exit whilst he held on to the, now very irritated and bouncy about, looney!
Admittedly I had already been running late for work, but this definitely made me much later.
As I began my excuses to Mr Finnegan, he held his head in his hands, sighed, and said to the Manager: 'Just get her out of here and back to her desk, would you'. Like he'd heard this type of crap from me before??? hee hee
I worked in an Estate Agency and had to go in every other Saturday morning. One Saturday I overslept SO late that there was no point in going in. I had no phone.
On Monday morning I put wads of cotton wool around my ankle, wrapped it with bandages, hobbled in to work and said I'd fallen down the front steps on Saturday morning. So sorry :o(
On Tuesday, I kept the bandage on and the limp prominent.
On Wednesday I overslept AGAIN!!! No phone. Went in late and said I'd forgotten I had had to go for an X-ray.
Wednesday afternoon I was called into the Senior Partner's office to take a file in to him. So I hobbled off up to his office and we had a chat about my ankle. He was very sympathetic.
Everyone in the office asked me, daily, how my ankle was.
By Friday I was fed up with the bandages and started to limp about wearing my knee length boots.
Anyway, that was that and my ankle eventually 'recovered'. Some months later I resigned and got another job.
Shortly after that I bumped into the Manager from that office in a pub once evening. He turned to his colleague and said ..............
"Do you remember that time when 'jauntie' pretended she'd sprained her ankle?"
I nearly dropped my drink in astonished embarrassment! hahahahahahaha