MORE EXCUSES FROM EMPLOYEES NOT TO GO TO WORK - Page 2

Cookie2025 · ‎03-10-2010

@Lindsays Grandma wrote:
1. An employee said she was bitten by a duck.

2. An employee said she was experiencing traumatic stress from a large spider found in her home and had to stay home to deal with it.

3. An employee caught their uniform on fire by putting it in the microwave to dry it.

4. An employee woke up in a good mood and didn't want to ruin it.

5. An employee's dead grandmother was having her body exhumed for a police investigation.

6. An employee had a headache after going to too many garage sales.

7. An employee had to mow the lawn to avoid a lawsuit from the Homeowner's Association.

8. An employee said a cow broke into her home and she had to wait for the insurance man.

9. An employee hurt his back chasing a beaver,

10. An employee couldn't decide what to wear.

Some of these are funny ! Back in olden days I used to dry my jeans in the oven -

CAcableGirl2 · ‎06-03-2010

How about the one

"I'm having eye trouble, I can't see myself coming into work today"

......You look like I need a drink.....

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

Some weird reasons are true. Many years ago, I worked about 30 miles from where I lived. The drive was a straight shot on a major divided highway.

One year in January we had a really big snow storm. The roads were plowed, but the snow was packed pretty high on both sides of highway.

In the early morning, I was driving to work on the plowed road when I saw the car in front of me hit a person. I could see the person rolling over and over again under the moving car.

I panicked and slammed on my breaks. My car spun in a 360 on the snowy, icy road and landed flush with snow bank facing incoming traffic.

Just after a minute a semi stopped behind me. Two men jumped out of the truck and walked past my car to the person who was hit. The person was actually a huge pig. I am guessing it might have fallen from a truck and was hit by the car in front of me that did not stop, by the way.

The men began dragging the pig out from the middle of the road...it's legs were injured and it was squealing. Then, they opened the back of the truck and hoisted the pig into the the back of the trailer and shut the doors and took off.

I was still sitting there facing oncoming traffic when a state trooper stopped. He asked me what happened and I told him. He asked if I was drinking. Then he stopped traffic to allow me to turn around and be on my way.

I did make it to work, but I was 30 minutes late. I am sure my boss is posting my story on some social media site as a crazy made up story.

JudyL · ‎07-11-2010

@Carmie OMG, I am laughing so hard. I'm sorry you went through all that as I'm sure at the time it was scary but I can't stop laughing.

#4 sounds like a perfectly legitimate reason to me.....LOL

Lindsays Grandma · ‎03-10-2010

@Carmie ...What bothers me the most about your story is the two men who gathered up the pig and drove off without helping you or even checking with you to find out if you were okay. Thirty miles to drive to work? I drove 12 miles each way which was bad enough but thirty, I would have to make a whole lot of money to do that. Your story is believable, no way can your former boss make a crazy story out of that.

The moving finger writes; And having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears Wash out a Word of it. Omar Khayam

Lindsays Grandma · ‎03-10-2010

@JudyL ...#4 may sound like a perfectly legitimate reason to you but unfortunately it won't wash with the boss. It sounds pretty good to me too and lord knows how many days it sounded so good that I was tempted but knew better and showed up.

The moving finger writes; And having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears Wash out a Word of it. Omar Khayam

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@Lindsays Grandma I don't think the police officer believed me. I was scared at the time, but it a quite a story now.

I have another car story, but this one had witnesses. I was driving in NJ on a long bridge over a bay near Stone Harbor. I was the only car on the bridge when my front windshield shattered after a loud bang. I thought someone was shooting at the car and started to scream.

My daughter and my sister tried to calm me down. When I got off of the bridge, I pulled over to check the windshield. I noticed a huge wad of wet packed sand packed into the edge of the windshield on the driver's side. When I tried dig it out it, found a big clam embedded in the sand.

Apparently a sea gull was digging up clams and dropping them on the bridge to break the shell. One of those clams landed on my car and broke the windshield.

The car was a Chevy Caprice..a big full size car. In one year alone, I had to have the windshield replaced four times for various reasons. In all, I think the windshield was replaced around seven times while I owned that car. I am surprised the insurance kept paying for a replacement. Some of the reasons the glass broke were really wonky.

Lindsays Grandma · ‎03-10-2010

@Carmie ...I'm surprised you didn't lose control of the car when that happened. I can see the windshield having to be replaced at that time, but seven times? Either the replacements wern't being done correctly or something was off causing an improper fit. Oh, the stories we can tell and sometimes when we think about some of them we wonder why we're still here.

The moving finger writes; And having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears Wash out a Word of it. Omar Khayam

JudyL · ‎07-11-2010

@Lindsays Grandma oh I may feel like excuse #4 sometimes, but I'd never use it! Hope you didn't think I was saying that.

I have a 1 hour commute each way. By the time I drive to the subway, take the train into the City, and walk to work its an hour, door to door. The stories I have about riding the subway......

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

@Carmie I don't find it at all amusing. That poor pig, I wonder what those men did with it. If they weren't taking it to a vet, they should have put it down since it was obviously in pain.