Posted on 02/27/2014 7:21:52 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum
I always figured why waste an excuse to be late when you can use it to take the day off.
ha! i am so grateful for GRACE! :)
anyway, it is not my car... it is my niece's... i live with her and her husband... (she and i are the same age)... i am kind of starting my life over, so to speak... i am 3,000 miles away from "home." my employers are so understanding... they had no problem with my going back home three times last year for a total of 5.5 weeks... they love my work... are happy to have finally found someone who can do the work with little direction, and who fits right in... it is the perfect set-up for me at this time in my life... i could not ask for a better place of employment...
Courtesy - Jeff Foxworthy
Hemerroids. Nobody goes to a doctor for hemerroids so there woudl be no note, and no employer wants to see the proof.
If someone is late in getting to work, they’re just late. The “why” part of it doesn’t really matter, or change anything. If I have someone working for me that shows up late, I wouldn’t even ask them why, because does it really matter? If they are habitually late, and disrupting operations, they’ll just be terminated.
A guy called in and told me his kid swallowed a nickel.
Instead of “witches”, say “gnomes”, or whisper conspiratorially - “little people”.
They’ll leave you alone.
True story - I had a friend of a friend that wanted to go with us to the lake one weekend but couldn’t get out of work,
so - best excuse ever - told his supervisor that he was IN JAIL. He had a fun weekend.
Walmart had an older retired man working in one of their stores. Everyone liked him, he was a good worker, but he was always late. One day the manager took him aside and told him how much he was liked and what a good worker was, but he wanted to know why he was always late. He asked what they said when he was late in his old job. The retired worker replied, “Would you like some coffee General?”
I’m almost always the first one in anyway. I do recall calling the boss one time with “Uh, there’s a dead moose in the road.” “I know,” he replied,”I’m three cars behind you.”
Jake: No, I didn’t. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!
I generally show up 15 minutes late. I use the side door so Lumberg can’t see me. Then I just sort of space out for about an hour.
I wouldn’t say there is no good excuse, but I have always told the people working for me that the minimum requirement for any position is to be to work on time...
UPSTATE NY IN THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS_ TRUE STORY
The car wouldn`t start coz it wa 40 below n the oil froze so I had to hook up the cutter with the Sammy the gelding so that took a while but the snow was 4-5 feet deep so Sammy had to do a lot of pushing and we had to take a 10 minute rest once in a while- then he got ice on his hooves and mane so we had to stop and put the warm bricks to unfreeze him- then when we got to the stoplight it wasn`t working but Sammy went thru it anyway and a cop was there on the corner in his cruiser frozen- and gave Sammy a ticket for Jaywalking a sleigh across the intersection- then I had to find warm garage for Sammy. Then I got here- only took 3 hours but I yam here -good thing it was all downhill!
As long as you’re in before the boss arrives then you’re never late.
Obama was in town for a Fundraiser?
King Fish (Obama) made an EO so it’s ok.
“I’m not late. Everyone else just got here early’’.
Bushes fault............
I’m ALWAYS here early
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