Worst reasons collegues have rang in sick....

[Itsawildworld85]

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

Was she called Pio?

No it was because she "couldn't get into work".

If she'd have stated childcare issues it wouldn't have been a problem.

A colleague said she has a migraine. Sitting outside the coffee chain opposite work laughing with some friends. Then she came into the store for some shopping!!! WTF?

The only time I would have enter the store for shopping when off sick is if I had a cast, sling or crutches as people can see I couldn't work. That never happened.

I had my tonsils removed in 2001 and have had tonsillitis twice since then!
They can also grow back!

‘I seem to have developed stigmata’ is a really ballsy excuse for calling in on Good Friday, to be fair.

Typo yes, but "scolding" is a perfectly valid word so autocorrect wouldn't pick it up as wrong.

I was assuming autocorrect from a typo. I'm a rubbish typist so autocorrect frequently corrects my typos to the wrong word. Unlikely to be a straight typo as o and a are nowhere near one another on the keyboard.

That's exactly why I don't think it was an autocorrect issue. They are two very similar words that often get confused with each other, which is probably what happened. Whether or not you call that a typo is splitting hairs, though.

Ok. I wouldn't consider them similar enough to be confused. It's certainly not a confusion I've encountered but then neither are words I would hear/see frequently. Obviously it's an error rather than a typo if someone thinks scolded is the correct word.

What I had assumed happened was something like poster typed "scslded" instead of "scalded" as s and a are beside one another and then autocorrect corrected to scolded. It corrects to words you have used more frequently/more commonly used words so perfectly possible it would choose scolded instead of scalded.

I once had to call in sick with sunstroke (not burn, which she decided id had) and the rather unsympathetic manager told me to 'try suncream another time' and took the piss on the phone and to everyone on shift. I made a point of handing my hospital letter for the gp over to her manager first and had a teenage whine about the bitching. But she had a point, I could have probably avoided getting sunstroke. But both can be pretty bad.

I once didn't go to work as there was an L on my rota, which I had assumed meant 'leave'. Turns out the L was really for 'Late shift' 🤣

The trousers 😂😂 Just how??

When I was a teenager I had a part time job in New Look. My pleather trousers split on my way to work so I had to ring in to say I was going to be late because I had to nip into Bay Trading Co to get new trousers🤣

Came into work crying and asking to go home because whilst on the bus she had seen a livestock lorry taking animals to the abattoir. She sobbed that she couldn’t bear to see their panicked eyes and could only imagine the horrific pain they were going through.
The boss let her leave much to my disgust and I let him know that in a way only a belligerent teen girl can pull off. He tried to turn it into a lesson of compassion for me until we both then watched her walk back past the shop munching on a greggs sausage roll!

To be fair in the winter when I wear skirt and tights I can see how easy it is to not realise you haven’t got your skirt on 🙈 I’ve nearly done it a couple of times.
Once I walked to work in the snow so was wearing my wellies - got to work only to realise I had picked up 2 very different black shoes! 🙈

Colleague didn't turn up then at lunch he rang to tell me he'd woke up in a womans house he didn't know and was scared his GF would try and call him from work so he'd gone home and was contacting friends to see if he could piece together what had happened that night. Could I cover for him if GF called.

I said no.

Trouble is the industry we were both in is very small and filled with heavy machinery which I could hear in the background, he'd picked up a couple of days work and had gone contracting.

No idea why he made up that story, his GF lived in the same village as me and I saw him there getting into his car on my way to work.

I'd have sacked him but my bosses had him back

walking to work I realised something didn't feel right, looked down and realised I had odd shoes on, had to go home as I'm on my feet all day in a customer service role. Thankfully I live nearby so not too late and my colleagues found it hilarious(they know how scatty I can be)😂

Lols. I’ve done that with shoes too. I was walking from the car to work one day and became aware my footsteps had two different noises - because I had odd shoes on!

I was once late for work because I opened my front door to leave and it fell off. Sent a picture as I thought no-one would believe me, but the HR lady said she knew I'd have had enough sense to claim a migraine or something if I just wanted a day off, instead of making up such a ridiculous story 😅

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100% agree. What people do with their annual leave is their business. I sometimes take my annual leave and spend it relaxing at home and resting

To be fair he probably did have a headache on the Monday! 😅

Colleague of mine had a ridiculous experience on the other side of this. He was hit by a car which mounted the pavement and was off for a few weeks with some quite severe injuries. Shortly after he got back, our employers carried out a review of chargeable hours worked and insisted on calling in everyone with low hours including this person. He had to go through the farce of solemnly explaining why he had achieved so few billable hours but was a bit stumped when it came to answering what he was going to do to improve things in the future: he wasn't at all sure that he'd be able to keep a straight face whilst saying "Umm, try to keep away from rogue cars mounting pavements?"

Well urs sounds much more eventful 😅.

My boss said "do u mean your boiler?" "No just the living room radiator won't come on and it could get cold"

She was asked if she could arrange someone to come, on one of her non working days and she said "no I don't think that's doable"

People asking .. what I mean is, ring in on the day to say not coming in..

This thread is gonna be useful to people that want some time off 😆

That reminds me of the song we sang in school:
"Drill ye tarriers drill"

Our foreman's name was Jim McGann
By golly, he was a blim' mean man
Last week a premature blast went off
And a mile in the sky went big Jim Goff
And drill, ye tarriers, drill <chorus>

When the next payday came around
Jim Goff a dollar short was found
When he asked what for, he got this reply
"You were docked for the time you were up in the sky"
And drill, ye tarriers, drill <chorus>