Worst reasons collegues have rang in sick....

[Itsawildworld85]

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

His dad wasn't going to walk him t the bus stop. NT 22 year old spoiled knobhead male.

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

Windy day, scared their hair would get blown over their face and that would put them at risk of getting run down crossing the road - true story and they were fired

Wow!

He couldn't come in because overnight lots of boils had appeared all over his face.

He was back, either the next day or the day after, with a miraculously smooth unblemished face.

GP gave him some wonder cream or other, which cured him.

A colleague called in sick to say he’d had to go home because the road was too busy and he couldn’t cross it. I kid you NOT ( why he couldn’t cross further down or find a proper crossing, I don’t know)

An ex manager phoned in sick because their cat was “sad”.

My friend phoned in sick when George Michael died.

My favourite was she couldn’t come in because there were bats under the bonnet of her car and she had to wait for bat man to come and get them out.

(this was a true event but still my favourite)

I dunno? Failure to grasp basic English grammar perhaps?

I made a cottage pie in the morning before work. When I was mashing the potatoes a load flicked up in my face/eye and scolded me really badly. I sat with cold flannels on all morning. Didn’t go to work. Until
it healed it looked like I had several patches of ring worm 😂 I had to say I burned my face with potatoes

To be fair to the rat in the sofa and the cat on the roof, I don’t know if I could just go into work and leave them. Especially since the cat was clearly actually stuck and it fell off later. And I couldn’t just leave a rat (pet or otherwise) in my sofa for hours on end.

As long as they aren’t the kind of people who often phone in sick and it’s a one off thing I’d actually just think fair enough if I worked with them.

I had a colleague phone in sick then put in a sick line for 3 months because her boyfriend dumped her.

They weren't even living together or anything. He treated her poorly, would not see her on her birthday if his football team was playing, would go on holiday with mates and have zero contact for a week etc.

I could understand maybe a few days or a week but 3 months is taking the piss.

Was funnily enough back at work when the directors told her she was going onto Statutory Sick Pay rather than the full pay she was enjoying.

I did once phone in because I couldn’t find my kitten.
I did find him very quickly after phone call and was only a wee bit late!

These have me howling with laughter!!!! Thank you for the best start to the day 😂😂😂

We had this, she didn’t come in though as apparently colleague may use the bus but she couldn’t possibly.
She was also the boss’s dsis so pulled this shit all the time. This was NHS.

once had a snow storm predicted for London. Was supposed to cover the city. Except it never turned up and didn’t get a drop of snow. Still had a team member who called in to say they couldn’t make it in ‘because of the snow’ she clearly had thought she was getting a snow day!

Her hair straighteners had broken and she wouldn’t leave the house with unstraightened hair.

Gotta admire her honesty but if I were her I think I’d have said I had the shits. Less embarrassing.

Had similar - snowing, didn't have right shoes

@NotDarkGothicMama
—An hour late because they'd managed to forget to put their trousers on and drove all the way to work before they realised. They phoned me from the car park and I told them to go home and come back when they were fully clothed—

This is the best so far 😂😂😂

Guinea pig had a fit

I got to work through some snow, it wasn’t a Herculean effort, just took a bit more time. No one else made it in. I got told off for being a martyr by my boss.

I had a colleague leave work early as his wife rung to say that their daughter’s hamster had “started running about in a crazed manner” 😂

“My rat died yesterday, I just fell over and my cat has gone missing”.

People or trees?

My workplace has an unbelievably generous sickness policy, 10 episodes per year allowed before HR come a knocking.

some people still manage to go over it, not people with chronic illnesses either just a lot of colds/flu over tha year.

last Friday someone called in with a cold and said that head be back by the following monday, how can you know you need over a whole week off for a cold at that stage? Bunch of shirkers honestly.

I'm envisaging old people but assume was trees
Edit - sorry, already been asked!