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…
(Excerpt) Read more at nj1015.com ...
Yeah, when I’m managing managers I don’t really care as long as we’re communicating effectively and we’re hitting the marks. When you’re managing the people associated with equipment and operations it’s a different matter. I’m semi-retired now, but back in the day I was responsible for moving people and equipment coast to coast on very short notice. When you’ve got teams set up, it’s hard to just plug someone else in because somebody missed a flight or didn’t plan for potential delays.
I once used “I was stuck in fourth gear with the pedal stuck to the floor” .... Ironically there was a high speed chase on tv that very morning and some folks thought I escaped the law, making it to work.
Ever.
Be on time.
You've obviously never been scheduled for execution..........or a court mandated castration.
Or a forced marriage to the ugliest girl in the village.......
yep offsite/moving ops is a totally different animal
Swan blocking the road. Their big, their nasty, their hard to get out of your front grille.
I was kidding about the “no excuse” thing.
I wish we could settle on a font around here that would
show what one wrote was meant to be a joke.
The difference in a good hand (employe) and a bad one is
what you are willing to tolerate. 5.5 weeks that’s what.
33 days. If that’s all you missed, and you worked a few
weekends and you let them know in advance before you went
back home, then really over a year that’s not bad at all.
You don’t sound like your late to work very often anyway.
i know... i just felt like spieling :) i thought i threw a "ha," and a smiley at the beginning to let you know i knew you were kidding... haha! but anyway--thank you!
Here’s one I actually used:
My dog had a toothache.
Repeat these words to the boss and you’ll never run into trouble: “Dad, I had to take Mom to the hospital.”
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