Page 16 | Worst reasons collegues have rang in sick....

Itsawildworld85 · 2025-04-02T22:58:55+00:00

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

DiscoDown18 · 04/04/2025 00:01

Purplestarballoon · 03/04/2025 10:27

I had a boss call in to say he was going to be late because his cat followed him all the way to the station and he had to take it back home 😂😂😂

I've not been late for work but definitely missed a bus when my cat followed me to the stop and I had to take him home!

JockTamsonsBairns · 04/04/2025 00:07

I had a colleague work with me for 11 days.

On day 12, she rang in sick saying she "couldn't move her arms".

No, I didn't understand it either.

WhenICalledYouLastNightFromTesco · 04/04/2025 00:26

Cattenberg · 03/04/2025 00:12

In one place I worked, a young colleague rang in to say that she couldn’t come in as she was really drunk.

Luckily for her, the manager saw the funny side and said “at least you’re honest”.

I think this is quite admirable.

I had a part-time job whilst I was at uni and the workplace was open 24/7. I phoned in at about 3am, stood outside a nightclub, whilst I was high and drunk because I had a 'migraine'.

On my first shift back, the colleague that I had spoken to said, 'Just remember you had a migraine' and winked at me. I was so embarrassed, and I couldn't even remember the excuse I'd given.

My work ethic has improved massively since.

GetupSeanItsDoleDay · 04/04/2025 00:29

My boss phoned in sick directly to me to avoid having to speak to his line manager. It was so hard to keep a straight face saying "X phoned and I'm just going to quote him word for word. He can't come in today because" he was stung by a bee which was in his sock when he pulled it on".

Whooowhooohoo · 04/04/2025 00:30

LoyalMember · 03/04/2025 23:10

Paycheck? Are you in the US?

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Noooooo, because of her unorthodox departure we stopped the direct payment, and she needed to do some paperwork. Company would not pay her til she came into office and did the paperwork … she left job, no notice so it was something like “job abandonment” and not sickness absence. She never came in to formalise her departure, she sent a man to do this but we could not have him act on her behalf … she abandoned her job & never got last pay. Doing this w payroll is costly for a company … they charge for manual processes, stopping payments, etc.

Franjipanl8r · 04/04/2025 00:34

I pulled a sickie when I got a last minute ticket to a big sports event. I panicked and said I’d got something in my eye and had to go to minor injuries so couldn’t come to work. The next day at work to look convincing I wore a pretend eye patch. I wish I’d just said I had a tummy bug!

WhenICalledYouLastNightFromTesco · 04/04/2025 00:57

AmazingBouncingFerret · 03/04/2025 18:02

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!

It could've been a vegan sausage roll tbf.

But, I work for a vegan company and I'm vegan myself and seeing lorries transport animals does upset me, however, I don't think I'd be able to get a day off for this, even if I went in crying 🤣.

I'd probably be offered some support though.

StarCourt · 04/04/2025 01:11

Richmansworld · 03/04/2025 10:47

I once tried to call off work in my late teens because I had been made temporarily "homeless" by a tornado... it had caused roof damage to the small block of flats & police wouldn't allow any residents to access the property.

I had stayed overnight at a friends, had no clean clothes & my manager still insisted I go in. I don't think she believed me at first... to be fair this was in the West Midlands so definitely an unsual original "excuse" 😂

did you live in Moseley?

Robogob · 04/04/2025 02:02

Her gran had lost her purse. The gran lived hundreds of miles away.

Robogob · 04/04/2025 02:05

Fumes from the photocopier had dislocated her shoulder.

Natsku · 04/04/2025 02:30

Whooowhooohoo · 04/04/2025 00:30

Noooooo, because of her unorthodox departure we stopped the direct payment, and she needed to do some paperwork. Company would not pay her til she came into office and did the paperwork … she left job, no notice so it was something like “job abandonment” and not sickness absence. She never came in to formalise her departure, she sent a man to do this but we could not have him act on her behalf … she abandoned her job & never got last pay. Doing this w payroll is costly for a company … they charge for manual processes, stopping payments, etc.

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I think LoyalMember is questioning the spelling, should be paycheque.

I am tempted to call in sick for lack of sleep today, woke up at 2 and couldn't get back to sleep. But I have a task that has to be finished today so I can't not go to work

GlowOrb · 04/04/2025 03:05

He timed his "can't come in today" calls for when he had deadlines.

"My mum is having a mental breakdown."
"My dad doesn't feel well."
"I don't feel well."

Once, when he had planned a vacation and the time off was already approved, he tried to get his vacation time extended but refused to commit to finishing in advance a task that was due a couple of days after his vacation. On the day that he was supposed to fly back from Europe, he texted the boss and claimed that his passport had been stolen and he needed to stay in Europe for another week to get it replaced. The most shifty guy I've ever had the displeasure to work with. He works for a bank now - ironic.

Richmansworld · 04/04/2025 08:12

@StarCourtnot quite, Sparkbrook, but I did move to Moseley for a number of years shortly after that shitshow!

MugsyBalonz · 04/04/2025 08:33

LoyalMember · 03/04/2025 22:59

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.

It's entirely doable. Leave Glasgow around 5, get to London around 10 then coming home leave London around 6 and get home around 11pm. It's a long day (I know, I've done it several times) but it's not impossible.

Poppymeldrum · 04/04/2025 09:13

I used to work with a bloke,his wife and his girlfriend

They where all best mates and knew about each other-in fact at one point,they lived together

They would all go on the sick,at the same time for really daft reasons like 'our son is in a&e,we've got to take him', 'we all have a headache' or 'I've stubbed my toe so i need the other two to keep an eye on me'

They would take large chunks of time off for 'mental health reasons' and lay it on thick that they where 'so Ill we can't leave the house' (all would time it to go off on the same day and for as long as possible)

Then they'd come in and spend hours stuffing their faces while taking the piss out of us for working

Worst bit is,we had a real bitch of a manager at the time

I was once off with a bad back-i could barely sit or stand up,let alone walk (I'm known for battling through-i rarely take a sick day)

I'd made an appointment with the doctor and was told to go to a doctors that's about 2 miles away

Dp gave me a lift down,but couldn't get me back for some reason,I'd have to walk (best I could) back home

Bitch boss saw me staggering (I was clinging onto walls and lampposts when she saw me) back up the street and once I was back at work,she hauled me in for a bollocking

'If your fit to walk home,your fit to work!'

Same woman never said a word to any of the same 3 people-they must have known where the bodies where buried

SonoPazziQuestiRomani · 04/04/2025 09:52

ThatsNotMyTeen · 03/04/2025 13:54

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

This is more common than you'd think, particularly if the nursery drop-off isn't part of the normal routine. People just go into auto pilot in the mornings. I read about a sad case a while ago where a toddler had overheated and died in the car seat when the dad accidentally forgot about her and went to work with her still in the car.

SonoPazziQuestiRomani · 04/04/2025 09:55

CoolPlayer · 03/04/2025 13:57

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

Totally understandable to take unpaid leave for this - but the point is that it's not OK to pull a sickie over a pet being ill/dying. That's not what sick leave is for (just like you wouldn't expect to have sick leave for childcare purposes if your child is unwell or if you are caring for an adult).

CharlotteBakewell · 04/04/2025 09:55

Not a work one but a reason I was late taking DH into school. The gerbils had a huge scrap in the night, woke up to both of them bloodied. Had to take them both to the vets to get them checked over! Separate cages from then on in.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 04/04/2025 14:04

WhenICalledYouLastNightFromTesco · 04/04/2025 00:57

It could've been a vegan sausage roll tbf.

But, I work for a vegan company and I'm vegan myself and seeing lorries transport animals does upset me, however, I don't think I'd be able to get a day off for this, even if I went in crying 🤣.

I'd probably be offered some support though.

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It was about 25 years ago, even the veggie pasties in greggs weren’t veggie back then! and she most definitely was just on the shirk.

Cattenberg · 04/04/2025 14:16

If arriving late counts, then I might tell this one again. A colleague came into the office later than usual, explaining to everyone that one of her hamsters had had a lie-in and she’d had to wait for him to get up before she could change his bedding!

Strangely, no one in the office batted an eyelid except for me, and I thought it was funny.

ThinWomansBrain · 04/04/2025 14:18

Had injury from walking into the cacti plant in the office

Plant, about three inches high, sat towards the back of one of those 4 drawer metal filing cabinets, so over four foot high and about two foot deep🤔

LoyalMember · 04/04/2025 14:41

Natsku · 04/04/2025 02:30

I think LoyalMember is questioning the spelling, should be paycheque.

I am tempted to call in sick for lack of sleep today, woke up at 2 and couldn't get back to sleep. But I have a task that has to be finished today so I can't not go to work

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It's not that either. Who gets a pay cheque in the UK? It's not a thing.

TheEyesOfLucyJordon · 04/04/2025 14:54

Usernamechangeforthis12 · 03/04/2025 07:19

New colleague called in sick as she’d been out the night before and woken up with a rather nice man in her bed…..

To be fair, I'd probably do the same.

Where ave all the good men gone? 🤷

Aliflowers · 04/04/2025 16:46

“There’s a suspicious looking man hanging around outside on the street so I’m staying home to guard my house (so won’t be attending a 12 hour shift at any point today or infact the whole week just to be sure). Ok if he wasn’t a complete shite who rang in every other weekend it might have been slightly plausible.

He also took piles of days off because the kids were sick/fell off bike/had a nightmare… insert any excuse and couldn’t fathom why people were perplexed by this when his wife was a SAHM

When redundancies came he was one of the first out the door

canyouseemyhousefromhere · 04/04/2025 17:41

Injured herself while doing a handstand in the shower having sex with her boyfriend.