Posted on 02/27/2014 7:21:52 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum
A new national survey by Careerbuilder,com puts traffic on top with 39 per cent of those surveyed. There’s nothing like that helpless feeling of sitting in traffic knowing you’re going to be late for work. Next up, lack of sleep at 19 per cent, followed by problems with bad trabsportation at 8 per cent. 7 per cent blame the weather, 6 percent are late due to dropping children at daycare or school and fifteen per cent of employees of employees admit to arriving late for work at least once a week.
But there are other more unusual excuses like…
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I once had an employee who tried to use “the cat knocked over my alarm clock” six times in a row.
Needless to say, she eventually ended up in rehab.
Around the oilfields “I met a really hot babe at the bar last night” pretty much worked every time.
“my niece took off with my car keys”
No excuse, you should have had a spare.
Your fired.
Whats funny is when you become an employer and
you start hearing all the excuses you used to use yourself
and you know are BS. You tend to let it slide knowing that
your former boss knew the same thing and let you slide.
I’ve had some woman employee tell me that she had a “urine tract infection”. It made me not ask any more, but I wonder if that’s the nature of the excuse game.
Don’t pay the ransom boss; I escaped.
I start 2 hours ahead. How would they know if I'm late?
When I would to come in to work late, I would tell my boss that I’d have to leave early that day ,, as I dont want to be late twice in one day...
Back when I was working construction jobs I usually showed 30 minutes before the official start time, many others did too. I can’t say ever remember anyone showing up late twice.
“pretty much worked every time.”
Of course, It’s the hope, dream and holey grail of oilfield
workers to bag a hot babe. So they let it go in the hope
that maybe someday it may actually be true.
Just show up with donuts.”
I used to work for a guy who always told us that if we were going to be late, we’d better have a box of donuts in our hand. Pretty funny. Didn’t think about it after all these years until I read your comment.
I’ve been known to tell my boss; “I’m cramping really bad today and I’m flowing even worse.”
He always says.. “Dude. Just shut up and get in here”.
Another favorite excuse: “I have anal glaucoma. Yeah, I just can’t see my ass coming in today”.
” but I wonder if that’s the nature of the excuse game.”
It is with diarrhea. Just ask albie, post #2.
My dog ate my Toyota.
Some of the ones I recall
These are all actual excuses personally told to me.
I was in jail.
My helper was in jail
I had to bail out my helper
My van got repossessed.
There's a boot on one of the wheels of my van (parked in someone else's driveway)
I forgot where I parked my van last night.
Someone broke into my van last night and stole my steering wheel. I had to steer with a pair of vise grips.
And my all time favorite:
Carpet installer explaining why he was five hours late in picking up the goods.
Someone snuck into my bedroom last night and took the batteries out of my alarm clock.
There was this fat chick back in TV world who called a couple hours late and said she dreamed she called in.
Years ago at the company where I worked, employees had to check in with the time keeper whan arriving for work.
The time keeper was stationed right outside of my office. Almost no one was ever excused for an unplanned lateness no matter what the excuse / story.
One day I overheard a guy say he was hung over. He was excused because the time keeper thought that was the first honest reason she received. :)
Really?
Trabs can be difficult to carry anywhere...especially the really ornery ones.
“Russia has invaded Ukraine and ICBMs have been launched on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific.”
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