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I am interested in hearing funny or strange excuses that employees have used as the reason for not coming to work. For example, I was told recently that "I was in jail" and another said "my cat defic
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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 2/10/2004 9:53 AM EST
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I am interested in hearing funny or strange excuses that employees have used as the reason for not coming to work. For example, I was told recently that "I was in jail" and another said "my cat deficated (used a differnt word) all over the house and I didn't have any clean clothes to wear". What have you heard from your employees?

Thanks!

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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 2/11/2004 3:52 AM EST
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I had an employee call in stating that he would not be at work due to the fact that his car broke down and he needed to fix it but, the caller ID showed that he was calling from an internal phone located in shipping. One employee called in saying he had ran over himself with his pick-up truck.
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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 2/27/2004 8:26 AM EST
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We had someone call in because she was "too drunk to work."

My mother had an employee call in because she (the employee) had an infected navel.
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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 3/1/2004 8:53 PM EST
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i had a subordinate who called to say he wasn't coming in because he had been to a party the previous night and his entire body still ached with all the dancing!! full marks for honesty i guess!!
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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 3/2/2004 10:48 PM EST
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I once had an employee ring up to say he couldn't atend because his car was sick!
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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 3/17/2004 7:33 AM EDT
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The best one I heard was an employee called in from our parking lot. He said he was going to be late because the door handle on his car just broke off and he was locked inside. He said that he needed to go to a auto mechanic to get it unlocked.

When I suggested to him that he should use the passenger side door to exit the car, there was a few seconds of silence and then he said, "right".

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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 3/23/2004 9:05 AM EDT
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We had an employee call in and say that he couldn't come to work to work because his truck had been reposessed and his dog was in his truck. He had to get the dog back.
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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 3/24/2004 2:44 PM EDT
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I worked with a lady that once called in well and sick of work. Her manager was so amused that he granted the day off.
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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 4/2/2004 3:22 AM EDT
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One of our employees called in about an hour into his shift to say he would be late because his roommate's girlfriend had stayed the night and he couldn't take a shower.
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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 4/17/2004 5:09 PM EDT
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I had an employee call in sick, on their scheduled day off.
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