Employee Excuses

[lilhave]

Strange Reasons Employees Use to "Call in Sick"

Workers who are chronic offenders may be running out of ideas. Forty-
one percent of hiring managers said they have received unusual or
suspicious sick day alibis. Sixty-two percent did not believe them,
according to the survey. When asked to share the most unusual excuses
employees gave for missing work, hiring managers offered the
following examples:

1) Employee was poisoned by his mother-in-law.
2) A buffalo escaped from the game reserve and kept charging the
employee every time she tried to go to her car from her house.
3) Employee was feeling all the symptoms of his expecting wife.
4) Employee called from his cell phone, said he was accidentally
locked in a restroom stall and no one was around to let him out.
5) Employee broke his leg snowboarding off his roof while drunk.
6) Employee's wife said he couldn't come into work because he had a
lot of chores to do around the house.
7) One of the walls in the employee's home fell off the night before.
8) Employee's mother was in jail.
9) A skunk got into the employee's house and sprayed all of his
uniforms.
10) Employee had bad hiccups.
11) Employee blew his nose so hard, his back went out.
12) Employee's horses got loose and were running down the highway.
13) Employee was hit by a bus while walking.
14) Employee's dog swallowed her bus pass.
15) Employee was sad.

The survey was completed in September 2006 and included 1,650 workers
and 1,150 hiring managers nationwide.

[tdf4077]

those are great....

I had an employee call in once and say he couldn't come in because he didn't feel like it today but really didn't want to lose his job.

Another employee called in once and said they couldn't come in because his sister was on her menstration cycle and was too snappy to ask for a ride!

[dawsongirl]

rofl! Guess a fake cough isn't good enough anymore.

[Jo_Luvs_Ketchup]

Originally Posted by dawsongirl

rofl! Guess a fake cough isn't good enough anymore.

Guess not.