We all have them, those days when you absolutely don’t feel like going to work. You do your damnest to get out of bed, motivate yourself but nothing works. Or maybe you have an interview, and you just need the whole day to yourself. Then you think what the hell, I’m not going to work today, but what am I going to tell them this time. I’ve already killed my grand mother twice,, had food poisoning, tooth ache the works, what am I going to say today?
If your boss is anything like mine, he wants you to call, not sms (this is a new rule, seeing everyone was taking advantage of sms). I used to get away with sms, cause its not lying nine - nine. Now I have to call, and sound all groggy, panicked or something…
I thought we could start a database of excuses your boss might actually believe. I know we’ve all said something, so what have been your all time believable excuses, keep in mind you can't use the excuse twice on the same boss…
Here are some I have used:
I had an interview during the day, and I didn’t want to take the whole day off, so I went to interview at lunch time, but of course it does not take an hour. So I sms’d and said I had a tyre puncture – then only went back to the office later to collect my stuff.
When my boss was really giving me grief and I really didn’t want to be at the office, I sms’d him and told him my car had been broken into. So I had the day off. But I had registered to run the JP Morgan race that day, so I had to miss the race because how can I be running when I’ve had such a traumatic experience?
Please share, i feel a lazy day coming on sometime in June.
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