Worst reasons collegues have rang in sick....

[Itsawildworld85]

Broken radiator in spring....(not boiler!)

To be fair I’ve had to call in sick due to cold sores previously.

Mine we”re several covering the whole bottom half of my face (get them horrendously due to an autoimmune condition), was signed off by my GP for a week as it felt like I was constantly being whacked across the face with a bunch of stinging nettles.

Was on sleeping pills just to get a bit of rest that week!!

A colleague from many years ago took 6 weeks for straining his ACL (or whatever it's called) playing five a side. During this 6 weeks off he managed to take his pre-planned trip to new york!

I rang my work at the time to say wouldn’t be in (had to catch 2 buses for a 2 hour afternoon stint & couldn’t be bothered) as I’d had to go to London with my Mum regarding visas as we’d not long got back from living abroad. Cue my Mum popping in to my workplace to see me. I was sacked the next day 😆 hated working there anyway

These are great! I have actually been really late for a job I’d been in for over a year because I drove the wrong way… just drove to a different town.

mice... she took a month off.

This happened to me too! Was due at a dental appointment and had to phone and explain...... the receptionist found it hilarious!

This was mine many years ago and it is true. "Sorry I can't come in today, there is an armed seige on my road and there are also armed police on my fire escape and we are not allowed to leave the flat"

Colleague who was quite open about ttc - when she found out she was pregnant (after only a few months) took a whole week off to get over the shock 🙄

Same colleague came back part time (Tues-Thur) after mat leave. She phoned her her line manager one Tues morning - she'd been ill the previous day (her non-working day) so was taking Tues off. 🙄🙄Her line manager (also my line manager and a total wet lettuce) actually told her that was fine but changed his mind sharpish when I said "great, so if we're ill over a weekend we can take time off during the week? Shall I email the team to let everyone know?"

In my last department someone phoned in because it was cold outside and they didn’t like the cold.

A guy I worked with called in sick because his wife had stabbed him in the thigh with a pair of scissors.

I’d discipline for that

I’ve heard of people doing that. They were sick over the weekend so never got the benefit of it, so take 2 days off to make up for it

I was late once because I’d put my tights on and not my skirt!

a friend of a friend runs a temp agency for factories, a 20 something year old man asked for the afternoon off because he needed a smear test. I shit you not.
upon explanation of what a smear yes actually is, he went back to the factory floor.

Oh my God, poor man!

About 20 odd years ago I had a colleague who called in one day to say she couldn’t come in as her teenage dd needed an abortion and was refusing so she had to take her to make sure it got done. She came in the next day bright and early happily told us how ‘it was a struggle but she gave up in the end’ and that she had even told her dd she had to pay her a days money because of it 😭

That's so lovely. My old cat used to follow my son and me to the local shop. He would wait outside patiently, than accompany us back. It used to melt my heart. His little feet padding along the pavement. ❤️ He once followed us to a shop a lot further away and I was so worried he would get run over crossing the main road outside the shop but he was very careful and again, waited for us outside the shop, watching through the door, then walked home with us. ❤️

I drove halfway to the train station before realising I didnt have my glasses on

Short sighted!

That is actually abuse. The poor child.

While I would hope if my teen dd got pregnant that she would get an abortion, ultimately it is her choice and parents should, at the very least, accept that choice.

I was really shocked by it

I know a woman in her 50s whose parents forced her to have a (fairly late) abortion as a teenager. She never got over it. She stayed in contact with her parents for the rest of their lives, but she never forgave them and they knew that.

It was years ago as my son is now about to turn 19! But when he was about a year old he went to a CM. My husband usually took him in the morning as he started work later than me but one time he had an early shift so I needed to do the CM run. I just went on autopilot to the station, turned around in the car and my son was staring at me! I had forgotten to drop him off. So by the time I went back to the CM, the station again and work I was late

I had a colleague who habitually came in an hour late saying the trains were delayed. Every day. Except that I lived on the same train line as him. Which he knew. When asked to explain why the train ran for me but not for him would get angry. He didn't last.

I actually agree with people who ring in to look after porlie animals ect I had to do it once years if I’d left my cat alone and he had chewed his stitches open again he would have been in a real mess even possibly passed away. He’s old now xx

I’d have done the same 🤣

As a manager the MOTs used to fo my head in. There are drive through MOTs in the area open from 7am and on Saturdays. They can even be done during lunch break...