I need some excuses to tell the schedule woman at work why I can’t do overtime

[AintNobodyHereButUsChickens]

This is just for fun, it’s in my contract that OT is mandatory. But today she told me I had to do OT tonight so I told her I was too busy washing my hair. She laughed and put me down anyway. So that got me thinking, what other silly excuses can I give?

‘I have to walk my fish’ for definite.

I’m sure you lot can come up with some good ones!

😂

"I have some very important Mumsnetting to do"

Sorry - I need to collect some tartan paint from B&Q.

Sorry - I promised my poltergeist that we’d get a takeaway straight after work.

🤣🤣

Surely they have to give you more than on the day of notice?!

"I have a meeting at The Queen Victoria" (you're going to be watching Eastenders).

But tonight's my pole dancing lesson...!😫

That could trigger occupational health with some concerns 🤣

Im helping to carry a bath down a mountain

Its mt evening to yarn bomb the village post box

Im actually from Panorama

Im having tea with the Queen. (I told this one to my Youth Group about why another person would be running the session. None of them believed me. I was at a Royal Garden Party)

Your cat needs their routine colonoscopy

Sorry, my sofa has separation anxiety

Some of the factories I’ve worked in in the past, you’re lucky to get 4 hours notice.

Mercury is just out of retrograde and I can only work overtime when Mercury is IN retrograde.

ChatGPT said I couldn’t do it.

I have a sudden problem with my vision—I just can't see myself doing any overtime today.

I need to organise my sock drawer.

You need to air freshen your garden! (Someone once jokingly sent a lady at work out to do this and she did 😭)

‘I’ve got schooool’

This. Words of wisdom from Friends' Phoebe. 😄

I can’t. Why not? Shhhhh…. They think I did it but they just can’t prove it. Ah shit Janet now they can.

Nope. They do inform us as early as possible to be fair, usually they let us know in the morning, but the other day it was around 4pm. There’s currently no law on how much notice is required to work OT.

These are all brilliant 😂

Is it Padleys? They had this rule when I worked there, I used to make up fake religious holidays to avoid overtime.

I was in the lab, so managed to work there without seeing a single chicken or chicken nugget.

O actually hoovered a cat as my guide housekeeping badge 😆. We had to go to a lady’s house and hoover it as he loved it! It sounds so hilarious now but we just accepted it was normal haha

Not today! I’ve hatched a plan to escape on time and I’m not about to chicken out now.

You’ll have to ask someone else. All my egg-stra hours are beginning to ruffle some feathers