Stupidest reasons for skiving

[PolkaDotMankini]

Today I've had to pull someone up for refusing to come to work because it's raining 🙄 It's a nice cosy office job, they live 10 minutes away and AFAIK they are not the wicked witch of the West.

The best one I've had previously is someone calling me from the motorway saying they had to turn around and go home because they'd forgotten their trousers.

Any other good ones?

I’ve worked with a few people who, although not necessarily frequently, would always be off for a whole week. It was only once or twice a year, but you knew that, when they called in sick on a Monday, you wouldn’t see them again for the rest of the week.

A coworker told me that, in their previous job, they had one employee who would always take the maximum sick leave allowed each year. One Friday she went to the manager and told them that, as she hadn’t used up all of her sick leave, she wouldn’t be in the following week. HR refused to get involved so she got away with it consequence free!

@Schlaar

But that is a regular thing at the opticians!

My 21 year old colleague informed me he wouldn't be in because he'd only had seven hours of sleep 🙄

I once had to call in ‘sick’ because my bedroom door had broken so I couldn’t actually get out, I had to get my just turned four year old to go and knock on a neighbours door to help me get out (didn’t have their phone numbers).

She did eventually make it in, not having called and having missed two meetings, but a (well paid, for the record) intern once sauntered in around lunchtime saying she was “making love with” her boyfriend and considered it a perfectly reasonable excuse.

In Germany, our cleaners would use their sick entitlement like annual leave! Think it was something like 6 weeks

DH worked in Holland for a while and they would talk about using up their sick leave allowance

Just remembered one. Not an absence, as such, just a staff member that took a very long lunch one day (and did make the time up).

Disappeared at lunch, like he normally did, but about 2 hours later we started to wonder where he'd gone.

He eventually wandered back in and on being quizzed about where he'd been, he declared he'd had to go home.

Was everything OK, we asked.

"Oh yes, it's just the children didn't want the lunch we'd left for them this morning and wanted pizza instead, so I had to order them a pizza then go and wait for it for them, because they're not allowed to open the front door if either my wife and I aren't at home".

The "children" were 18 and 16!

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