Called in sick today, taking a mulligan and... Although I used a pretty generic excuse I have stretched it pretty good at times. When I lived in Germany I made it a habit of having a long commute from the country simply to avoid "hey yous". I called in once and told them the hill was snowed in with ice and I could not make it down the hill. Course it did not snow. My neighbor up the stairs was in the same unit so after I told called in I went up and told him to do the same. We took a beautiful day off and got drunk with the local farmers. So what is the worst "calling in sick" story out there? Some of us can use the fresh material. :hihi: As for today, lunch at the beach!
Use this one. My bestfriend Bob. Called his boss and said Joe, I am not coming in today. So Joe says, ok oh well I hope you feel better Bob. Bob says, " Joe, Im not sick" and hung up the phone.
Worst I ever heard was after a party here when my husband and I were dating. I'd gotten up the next morning and was helping fix breakfast when I hear one of his friends on the phone. We knew he had guard duty that morning and he was on the phone with his Sergent. He told the man he was drunk and not coming in. He called in drunk, not sick, not hungover. :hihi:
I worked in a state office my last few semesters at LSU. I have used the following lame excuses: Paper due 24 hour virus Impromptu group meeting for project and....the ever so popular...... The community apartment dryer is broken, and I had no clean pants to wear to work.
Working while being in school, and especially a school that no one attended at your work place is golden. I generally left to schedule classes twelve times annually.
I called in with food poisoning so many times at my dealership job in five years, you would think they would have started to wonder... Guess not, she just always said "Ok, we'll see you later. Let us know if we can do anything."
As an HR Manager, I've heard them all. There is one employee that has had 7 grandparents that have died. But my favorite story is one my Dad told for years. He and his freinds got tickets to the 1965 Cotton Bowl between Nebraska and Arkansas. Dad's boss at the cardboard box factory wouldn't give him the time off, so Dad did what he had to do. He and his buddies took off anyway. When they reached Wichita, KS, they pulled over. Dad called his boss from a pay phone to inform him that he was sick. He went on to say that he was sure he'd be sick for the next three days too! Dad returned to his job three days later and no one said a word to him. The sad part of the story is Arkansas won 10-7. But the story took on more meaning when I learned this was the Arkansas Championship team with Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson (Dad and I are Cowboy fans).:grin:
Where to begin....... These were while I worked at Casino Rouge My mom was having a emergency hystirectmy (sp) So I could play softball. Showed up at work and when one of the waitress wanted me to go party with them, I procedeed to make quiet a few trips to the bathroom and I told them that there was blood in my poop. At Schweggmans Had to go to the emergency room because a condom got stuck in my girlfriend and we couldnt get it out The water main broke at my house. In the Army Was suppose to be back in Texas on Lundi Gras, called from St Charles Ave and told them I broke down outside of Orange and would be there as soon as the car was fixed. It got fixed on Tuesday afternoon! There are many many many more, I like to be creative!
