Ridiculous ‘calling in sick’ reasons

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A member of staff has called in sick with a bit of a reason and it reminded me of a young member of staff years ago who called in sick with jet lag - they’d been to Ireland .

Any one else with daft reasons for calling in sick ?

We’ve had

Rabbit was sick

Got caught in the rain and now had a cold

Eye lids were flickering through looking at screen to long and needed a screen break

Kidney ache from drinking too much at the weekend

🙈🙈

However on the flip side when I was working else where I had an eptopic pregnancy and at my back to work interview I was asked what action I had taken to prevent another case of it and did I anticipate it happening again

I was once late to work because I stepped on a badly-secured manhole cover walking in and it kind of pivoted as I stepped on it so my leg fell down the hole right up to my hip! Credit to my lovely colleagues at the time that their response was to make me a cup of tea and phone the council to inform them while I tried to get hold of some non-laddered tights to hide my grazes!

As a teacher I get loads of terrible reasons. My favourites are always that it's snowing where they live or too icy. I don't tell them where I live but I always smile as I travel from the same place they do each day (no snow or ice in sight!)

One of DW's staff:
"I won't be in Monday, my visa has expired and I have to go to another island to renew it".

"Nice try, but if you remember you got it done before you left. It's on my desk".

They showed up on time, jetlagged to buggery.

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OhamIreally
Love it!!! I meant to say

I've told these on a previous thread before but they make me laugh so sharing again. These are all the same colleague in an old job.

1. A bird flew into my eye when I was walking to work. No injury, no nothing.
2. I've stubbed my toe when I was walking to work. No sprains, no breaks, literally a stubbed toe.
3. I'm too tired. But she wasnt too tired to go to her office day job.
4. I've got no hot water so I can't shower. She lived directly next door to her aunt who had working hot water.

She came into work on every single occasion after the manager told her she'd be sacked otherwise. Her sickness record was horrendous.

My ex was once late for work because the door handle on our bathroom broke and he got locked in there naked after I'd gone to work without his phone. He had to call for help out of the window and eventually our neighbour heard him and broke into our house to free him!

My workmate phoned from work car park - saying he couldn't find a spot so he was going home sick.

Last week a colleague called in sick because she had to go home to clean out her bed room, in a different country. We didn't get it either.

I once had someone call in sick because she kept sneezing. No other reason, she wasn't feeling unwell, she just "kept sneezing". She was at a football game later that day.

@YakkityYakYakYak I have actually done that before...

Guy I know, you know the type - mysteriously sick before and after every holiday, bank holiday, "works from home" at every available opportunity but is rarely contactable. Complete chancer, not fired because somehow he's very senior.

Well guess who was home a couple of weeks from a skiing holiday in Northern Italy when the news broke about the coronavirus outbreak there, has suddenly developed symptoms and is self isolating just in case?!

The other side of the coin here. My dad died and I went into work and told them I wouldn't be taking time off except for the funeral - my immediate manager said fine and she'd clear it with our overall manager and for me not to worry.

I got back to work after the funeral to a dressing down from our overall manager - how dare I take a day off for my dads funeral without her permission!! I was so flabbergasted I couldn't say anything except that I thought my manager had cleared it with her. I should have reported her to the union or /###))) her

I had to call in late once as I’d driven 45minutes into my journey of an hour to find I hadn’t dropped my son at the childminders he was sat quietly in the back

Emptywallet - that’s shocking regarding your ectopic pregnancy. Seeing as pregnancy illness doesn’t count towards sickness absence management. What did you say? What did they expect you to say?

I once called in sick with a coldsore.

I used to work for a recruitment firm who allowed a temp to go home sick. She was upset as she had a massive spot on her face and a modelling assignment the next day.

Same employer wouldn’t let me go home sick when I had such a bad migraine that my handwriting resembled a stroke victim and I was puking into a bin whilst trying to cover reception - wankers.

I suppose mine would have been received strangely by work when I ended up off work for 3 months because my face hurt..
But I'd developed trigeminal Neuralgia and the meds they put me on left me unable to walk in a straight line, stay awake or drive. And it took that long for them to find one o could take that stopped the attacks of pain.

i had to call in on the first day of my new job to say i’d be late. halfway to work, driving in trainers, realised i hadn’t put my shoes in the car.

the horror.

I once worked somewhere with full pay sick leave, that was until one lady decided after every 1 week holiday she was then "sick" for a week year on year.

After a pattern emerged everyone was put on statutory sick pay only. So selfish.

Showing up for the last class of the day at 3.15 p.m. with a note that you slept in!

A friend of mine in Ireland got away with this more than once when we we were at secondary school!
Her mum used to come home from work to find her still lazing in bed and would threaten to ground her, unless she went in.

We had someone call in sick because it was to windy for her to get to work. There were no weather warnings, it was just normal wind 😂

I worked in a really toxic racist place where I was bullied. They didn’t respect me enough to treat me like a human being so I didn’t respect them by avoiding sick days. Funnily enough as they knew the bullying would get out if they tried a disciplinary it was the one thing I was allowed to get away with it.

Didn’t get a good night’s sleep (office admin assistant not pilot)

I was late to school once because I came downstairs and a bird had flown down the chimney and was shitting its way round the living room in a blind panic, and I had to try and get it out. I was not believed and it still stings.