Worst reasons collegues have rang in sick....

[Itsawildworld85]

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

Can’t think of any that colleagues have had.

However, I rang in to say I couldn’t come in as I was locked IN the house.

True story 🙄🤦‍♀️😂😂

No problem, Marion. I presume it is you I used to work with?
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You can get away with up 8 times if you have 2 sets of step-Grandparents.

No, I’m not ‘Marion’. But I am someone who’s had sunburn so bad I was hospitalised and unable to use my arms, which isn’t funny when it’s happening to you, I promise. Just pointing out that sunburn can be serious is all. Not suggesting it always is, obviously. No doubt old ‘Marion’ was just on the skive. You’d know better than me.

I once had to call into work to say I was going to be late as a lost blind cat stuck it’s head out of a hedge in front of me on the way to the tram. The cat had no eyes but had a tag which said “if you find me I am lost as I don’t leave the house. My name is James. Please call my mum”. I did call his mum who turned up 30 minutes later, clutching a cat carrier (James had escaped his house and been missing for 3 days). He was very chilled.

she was very happy to see him and my boss loved cats so was quite happy about me being late!

I once called in sick from the toilets in the lobby of the building I worked in. My period came on like the elevator doors opening in The Shining while I was on the tube and by the time I got into the cubicle it had gone through my pants, spanx, tights and skirt leaving me with only my coat to provide some decency. I explained this in a panic to my elderly male manager and he, with an endearing concern, told me to 'take as much time off as I needed'.

I once got to work and realised I still had my slippers on.

Glad that's happened to someone else as well as me, @DoraSpenlow. I decided I had to own it, swanned into the office and showed everyone my feet. They all thought it was hilarious.

Believe it or not, I did it again a few weeks later. In my defence I was perimenopausal and very forgetful at the time.

Snow day (fair enough) but then put pictures up on FB sledging with her kids in a place that she'd had to drive to (past the office).

She did get a telling off for it.

What autocorrect?

God, that was me. Monday used to be a hoot (prior to MAT’s draconian sickness policy.) I used to have standby cover booked for one particular teacher. Even his wife, another teacher, said “My Dave does like a long weekend”
Back in the 90s I worked in local government and that was a cornucopia of batty absences. My team leader had a tumultuous love life and was regularly absent after falling out with her latest bloke. Except one day her bf, who she said she’d fallen out with and was skiving to reconcile (shag his arse off) and we knew as Chris, turned up with a huge bunch of flowers because he’d been away with work. “Oh sorry Chris, she’s off today.”...”My name’s Ben”

I once worked with a guy who was a hard partier and would constantly ring in sick, not show up, or arrive still drunk with the previous day’s clothes on and stinking of booze and fags. He’d have the most ridiculous excuses- missed the bus, slept out, got locked in, granny died yet again.

He was on final warning for attendance and one of the stipulations was that he had to ring the MD directly if he wasn’t going to be in instead of his line manager.

I sat near the MD and overheard the call when colleague rang to say he wouldn’t be in that day. He was clearly drunk and when asked why he couldn’t make it, said he had to go to the emergency dentist and was having a tooth pulled. MD feigned concern and asked which tooth. Colleagues replied “one of the front ones at the top”.

MD basically said “ouch, that sounds rough. Well, hope the dentist can get you sorted easily. Oh, and if you show up here tomorrow without a front tooth missing, maybe just don’t bother coming back?”

Never saw colleague again 😬

I did work in a place where we had a full-on Boomtown Rat. Always a plague of misfortune, always on a Monday. He lied about his wife being sectioned once.

Maybe her kids school was shut which was why she needed a snow day?

So many of us getting locked in rather than out, clearly it's more common than people realise 😂

Presumably "scolding" vs "scalding", although I doubt it was autocorrect that caused it.

Have rung in sick

This was me (and I’m still embarrassed by it!)

I am a teacher and lived in Germany at the time and had driven back to the UK for the holidays. Booked the return (overnight) ferry at the same time as my outward bound ferry, all good 👍🏻

Got off the ferry at around 8am on the Monday morning, with a 3 hour drive ahead of me to get home. Phone rings at 9am asking where I was…turns out we had an INSET day and I hadn’t known 🤦‍♀️

I did get into school by 11.30 after hitting some bad traffic in Belgium, and my head was very good about it 😳🤦‍♀️

What a plonker!

tonsillitis ... 2 years after time off for tonsillectomy!

I'm in the public sector and we have Flexi time.

Used to work with someone who, for the entire three years I worked with her, NEVER worked a Friday afternoon. She either booked it off as leave / flexi, had various medical appointments, or went home feeling sick. Once she announced that she needed to leave early because she had to go and lay flowers on her Mum's Aunt's grave.

"When I was mashing the potatoes a load flicked up in my face/eye and scolded me really badly. "

Why? I would assume autocorrect or a typo for an error like that.

her cat looked sad.

I'd never go in to work with one of my dogs if that worked. She's a total Eeyore.

One Good Friday at work I was the one who answered the phone to “I have bleeding hands!” None of us believed her.

Same. My dog can play me like a fiddle.