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Topic: TOP 10
Worst Excuses for Calling In Sick
November 12, 2010
Curiously, Lauryn's list of behaviors that are likely to ensure career failure seems to be missing a key item: calling in sick with a lame excuse. So, as a public service to our SafetyXChange members, here are 10 actual excuses that employers say their employees have used to explain why they weren't coming in to work.
- I was poisoned by my mother-in-law.
- A buffalo escaped from the game reserve and kept charging me every time I tried to leave the house and get into my car.
- I was feeling all the symptoms of my expecting wife.
- I broke my leg snowboarding off my roof while drunk.
- I was locked in a restroom stall and no one was around to let me out.
- I blew my nose so hard that it threw out my back.
- My dog swallowed my bus pass.
- I had a bad case of hiccups.
- A skunk got into my house and sprayed my uniform.
- My wife said I couldn't go to work because I had a lot of chores to do around the house.
Source: Careerbuilder.com.
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Hah! As a college professor, my husband has heard 'em all. Most of the time he tells his students they are just out of luck, but he came home once and said, "I excused a student's absence today." Her excuse? Her horse was foaling, and had to have an emergency C-Section. He said, "Even if it's not true, it's certainly not something I've ever heard before!"
I have a good one. One of our employees had been off for a while due to a non-work-related injury. He called in "sick" one day with, "I just feel too good to come in to work today!" We all got a laugh out of that one.