Worst reasons collegues have rang in sick....

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

I worked with a woman whose mum used to phone up on her behalf and say things like "Sally isn't well rested she won't be coming in today" and famously called once to say asking Sally to drive to a site visit 60 miles away was unreasonable and she wouldn't be doing it. Sally was a married woman in her 30s who didn't live with her mum!

After the office Christmas party, a colleague rang in sick at about 11, when she started at 7:30, to say she was too sick to come in. We worked Monday - Friday. She was calling in on Saturday.

I wasn't sick, but had got my shift days wrong once. Lovely day off (so I thought!) and was having a coffee and chilling out/planning my day when my ward manager phoned me to ask what I was doing. Penny still hadn't dropped, so I told her my plans for the day. She told me I was down to work (I was mortified), and I think I was dressed and in work within 30minutes!! It was a genuine mistake (and I cut my break to make up for the lost time). Luckily she thought it was hilarious!

We're quite lucky at work, in that we don't have piss takers. We did have a bank HCA that would book shifts and then not turn up...or telephone an hour after shift starts to say that she couldn't come in for whatever reason, but other than that, it's pretty good.

Cat was in a fight.

A blister on her foot

Hairdryer was broken so she couldn't do her hair.

Broke my foot as a wheelie bin fell on it. Had to call in sick to work as my foot was in so much pain and I couldn't walk on it. I was working as a GP receptionist at the time, they were not happy at all. I mean, what else was I supposed to do?! Was a crap place to work anyway, left not long after.

They might have been dealing with gallons of murky water leaking everywhere.

Not me but dp had a colleague who was notorious for coming up with excuses for being off sick. My favourite which earned them the nickname Suntan Sally (in our house) was they'd used the wrong kind of suntan lotion on holiday and therefore was far to sunburnt to come into work....

Not even call in sick, I got a cryptic message to say ‘pls msg Jane’ (the previous manager above me) which I had no idea what it meant
by the time I eventually got hold of her, I had a barrage of reasons, which I will directly quote:

• it’s the anniversary of my grandad dying (that’s valid to be upset enough to not work, would have appreciated if she didn’t go AWOL over it though)
• January is a hard month for her
• its also the same grandad’s birthday
• her sisters birthday (very much alive)
• Anniversary of moving house

also had the ‘it’s icy and I don’t have stable footwear’ excuse

Cannot stand the duvet day thing where people need a day off for no reason- we need to go back to getting on with life! Yes some days are shit but you don't get to hide away from it

@mrsfollowill i think you’re missing the point - that if you take a duvet day you do indeed get to hide away and recuperate. I’d highly recommend it. Life isn’t about wearing a hair shirt you know!

A friends son once rang in with a broken leg

'No worries' says the boss 'see you soon'
(meaning 'we'll see you in 6 weeks or so')
Next day,bloke showed up with his not broken leg

'I thought you said you'd broken your leg? Said the boss

'I did,but its healed now' came the answer

I work with a real piss taker and her husband

He's as bad as she is but he isn't as loud about 'my mental health' as she is

The back story is,her sister had a baby couldn't cope with the child so her parents are bringing the child up (all court ordered)

The sister had said that she'd had enough of her parents and she was on her way to pick up her child,now she'd had her second baby (apparently she was going to take the child by force) and thought her parents where taking the piss out of her by bringing up her child (that they'd rather not do,but she'd said in the first place that she wasn't coping,so they'd stepped up)

Cue a ton of wailing and crying so badly the (soft arse) manager let them both go home and they promptly tried to take 6 weeks off due to 'stress'

Not to go round her parents and stand up to the sister,just to sit at home and cry about the fact the sister said she was taking the child back

Piss taker has just had a baby and tried to go on maternity as soon as she found out she was pregnant

She went on the sick as work gave her maternity trousers to wear as she got a bit bigger and that affected her mental health so badly,she couldn't cope-she sobbed for days over that one (a pregnant woman wearing maternity clothes-who would have thought it?)

He's gone on maternity leave with her as he can't cope with the 'stress' (he's kept his job open,lowered the hours to zero and neither will come back-theyll just claim benefits)

I could tell many more stories about those two

Worked in an office where a previous employee had rung in sick because she had a cold sore. It wasn’t even a customer facing department..

@MyNameIsAlexDrake How on earth did you get attacked by an iguana? And how was your fringe affected?

I once had a colleague call in because her hamster had kept her up all night, running in his wheel.

5th uncle died - always in time for a performance review.

Wow some of these are crazy! I was 1.5 hours late yesterday due to reduce foetal movements and a scare with my baby where they thought I was going into preterm labour and I felt so guilty. Can’t imagine calling in to buy new Lino or because a band broke up

Actually that reminded me of a former colleague. She was always immaculate, hair, make up and outfit. She put her skirt on after she had done everything else so it wouldn't get flecks of makeup on it or creased. Apparently she drove to work, got out of the car, and realised she hadn't actually put her skirt on! A quick reverse home.

When I was 19 I rang in sick to my supermarket check out job from nightclub toilets in London so I could stay overnight with friends rather than get the last train home to Kent. It was so so loud, and I was massively slurring, there was no way they didn't hear. Consummate professionals, they accepted my sickness bug and made me complete a back to work interview the next working day without batting an eyelid.

Couldn't turn the bathroom tap off as the tap had broken off in my hand. I did dial into a meeting from home but had to give my apologies as there was water flooding all over our bathroom.
My director talked me through how to find and sort the stopcock 😳- luckily she was a practical sort.

Dental treatment 12 weeks.
Not major jaw surgery or anything. She needed a crown. She stayed off from the moment she found out until it had been fitted.
She would also go off with haemorrhoids for weeks on end, sometimes migraines and we never saw her for nearly a year with frozen shoulder. Did see her holiday pics though of her going down a water slide with both arms up in the air.
Management were useless and just ignored her piss taking behaviour.

On his 2nd day in the job, member of staff didn’t show. I called him, he told me his terrapin had scratched his eye so he couldn’t call in sick.

The windscreen wipers on his car were broken… he got the bus to work every day.

At one employer, a lad kept ringing in sick as a grandparent died. A member of management put him under investigation as he lost 11 grandparents in 9 months. Even if your grandparents got divorced and remarry, that is 8 grandparents. And no if a step grandparent remarries, their new spouse is not a grandparent in my eyes.

Called to say he was not sure he would make it in because an owl had got into the ballroom.

Was true actually. His wife managed a hotel and the room had already been set up for a dinner dance that evening. They had to catch the owl and clear up the mess.

my broken radiator had flooded a bedroom and I had to empty it completely and rip up the carper as a matter of urgency, also hunt down and get beck in the workmen who had caused it.