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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 10/28/2007 12:32 PM EDT
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I had an employee call in and had to take the day off because she had a bug crawl in her ear. Same one called in with something in her eye. Same employee has called in with the 24 hour hives. The list goes on. Upper management has a soft spot for her so I just have to deal with it, although I can say she has some creative excuses, I just wish she would just use the creativity in her work.
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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 11/15/2007 6:34 AM EST
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One of the other managers had someone call in because "he had found God the night before and couldn't stop crying"
I am still waiting to experience something like that
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Excuses for not coming to work

posted at 1/24/2008 7:39 AM EST
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I Often want to call in redeeming the time that I don't spend on smoke breaks.
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