Worst reasons collegues have rang in sick....

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

I know someone who did this. Did they work in a college?

My ex-boyfriend was off work for four days because of a mildly sore throat.

Had a girl who constantly called in sick for many random reasons, only lasted 3 months... Best & the last straw after 3 warnings . Couldn't come in due to "A severe papercut on her little finger which was sore" I kid you not.

I had a day off school because I dropped a pan lid on my toe! I had a huge blood blister under the nail which ended up failing off. The first day after I could put much weight through the foot and wouldn't have managed to walk to and from school and around the school to get to lessons. It must have looked like a pretty rubbish reason to my teacher luckily I had a pretty good attendance record!

Once called to say I’d be late because the front door was frozen/stuck. I was secretly dating my coworker who was also on shift that day so there was a lot of jokes from coworkers when we eventually made it in. (Luckily partners housemate climbed out on the roof and jumped down and managed to open the door from outside)

A colleague was off work for over a month after her cat died.

No but we called her Jesus for a while.

I called in sick once because my feet were so badly bitten by mosquitos that I couldn't get shoes on.

We had one lassie who called in and said it was raining and she had no brolly, one who was upset after watching Hayley Cropper die on Corrie and my personal favourite was the chap who phoned in sick because he was too upset to work as he’d not got tickets to London 2012.

A colleague called in sick every day for a week as he’d bought new shoes at the weekend and they gave him blisters. On day 3 his boss suggested he try wearing flip flops which was rejected.

The next company restructure did not go well for him!

Her feet were “hurty” because she’d walked more at work the day before than she’d expected. She was an English teacher. She’d been babied her entire life and was astonished I didn’t constantly find her adorable. She was 25 and a waste of space.

Not call in sick but I was late one day because my shoe fell apart on the way in!

I had to wait for Primark to open to quickly buy a new pair before heading into the office

I had a manager who called in sick because his new shoes were too heavy and made his ankles hurt.

She used immac cream on her fanny and couldn't walk.

They'd eaten too much Sunday dinner so couldn't come to work 😆

Ouch! I used it on my armpits, then made the mistake of applying roll-on deodorant-I was walking with my arms akimbo all day.

Young girl I worked with took a random day off. Came back in and said she'd been at a funeral in London. We lived and worked 30 miles north of Glasgow. A near 900 mile round trip and the funeral in one day? Of course, she did. Silly, lying, wee cow.

I had to phone in once as a fire engine crashed into my parked car.
Despite me and housemate both having rooms at the front of the house neither of us heard any noise in the night despite the house two doors down being on fire, the fire engine hitting my car or people knocking on doors to find the car owner.
Went out in the morning and saw a note on my windscreen. From pavement side my car looked fine but other side was a mess.
Had to show my boss pics when I finally got to work later that day. Fire service had to pay for all repairs and hire car etc.

Paycheck? Are you in the US?

My husband badly scratched his eyeball, eye completely closed up and he couldn’t see and it was weeping badly. He had been rubbing it when he tripped down the stairs and caught it with his nail. Instead of calling work and saying that he had damaged his eye and was on his was to A and E, he just said that he couldn’t come to work today as he had poked himself in the eye

At my last workplace, had one colleague say she had no bus fare (she lived with her parents who I’m sure would have helped her out with £2 and were fairly well off) Had another colleague who had a “terrible fall and hurt her ankle walking to work” but made it the long walk back home with no help, and was spotted walking normally.

Someone I worked with came in really late as she had found flour mites in a food cupboard.

Tbf she could've flown down and back in same day. But obviously she was at it.

My work have now decided that if you call off within 24hrs of your shift that you down as a "no show" and 3 of them and you are sacked. No ifs, buts or maybes. I'd like to see them try that if someone is taken ill, a death, a sick child etc. I had a no show as I was in hospital. I had left my last shift in an ambulance for emergency surgery yet they still said it!

I forsee many people fighting this and it being dropped!

All the sun burn ones reminded me I had to call in sick to my waitressing job due to really bad sun burn on backs of my legs.
It was bad enough I couldn't bend my legs and I'd had to go to GP who gave me steroid cream to help it heal.
My uniform was a knee length black pencil skirt and tights. There was no way I could face wearing tights so had to call in sick and then get permission to wear an ankle length skirt for next couple of weeks.

I remember an International student at my uni calling Top Man to say they couldn't come in as it was snowing and hence it was 'too treacherous' to go outside. The snow wasn't even settling but he was completely weirded out by it as he'd never seen snow before, bless him.

Recently a manager cancelled all meetings for a day because his DD's hamster had died so he needed to go around all of the local pet stores and find one that looked the same.