Worst reasons collegues have rang in sick....

[Itsawildworld85]

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

Yes but even so, take a day’s holiday/unpaid leave rather than expecting sick leave

Perpetual 'off sick ' student. There were many from him, one off the top of my head was 'i had insomnia last night' , one was 'i can't find my shoes ' (no joke ) and the last one , that had his very kind, diplomatic and all round lovely mentor rather irritated, was (hot sunny day, middle of summer ) "I can't come in. My uniform feels a bit damp to touch after washing it " mentor said : "that's fine. Either wait for it to dry and then come in and make up the time at the end of the shift, or come in right now and we'll find you some overalls - we gave got spares". He more or less immediately turned up with a face like thunder, was in a hideous mood for the rest of the shift and suprise suprise, uniform had seemed to miraculously dried off ...

I once had to phone work and say I'd be late because my then-2yo had posted the front door key out of the letterbox and we were all locked in the house. We had to wait for FIL to arrive with the spare set of keys.

I have been accidentally late twice because I’ve taken all the keys to work and locked the rest of the family in the house. Accidentally of course and I only live 10 minutes from work and I’m usually perpetually early so it only ended up being 10 minutes or so late!

I worked with a woman who upped and left work (or didn't come in at all) if even one flake of snow fell. She had a sporty little car that she could barely control in perfect driving conditions never mind challenging ones. This went on for years and never once was she pulled up on it. Shameless.

I was late in once when I was a in my 20s because I had gone out jogging in the morning before work in the dark, bent down to tie my shoes and stood up straight into a lamp post. I broke my nose! I remember it was the day of the christmas do and I turned up looking like I'd been in a fight.

I once had to call into work because DH had gone to work, locked me in as usual but hadn't realised my keys were also in his pocket.

Fortunately my manager thought it was hilarious and I had a laptop so I worked from home (years ago when working from home wasn't a thing).

But are all of these ringing in sick or just saying they can’t come in today? I’ve never worked in a place where you can ring in sick for reasons other than being sick or health related.

At a previous place of work one of my colleagues took 2 days off because she cut her finger. We all thought she must have had quite a serious injury. No, it was literally that, she’d got a paper cut on her finger that she’d covered up with a small plaster.

Oh another time a different colleague left work early in a panic because her son was ill and had to be picked up from school. He was 16…

To be fair, school policy is almost always that children/young people sent home sick have to be collected. It's duty of care. I know DC high school won't let anyone lower than sixth form leave early unless collected by an adult.

Rode my bike into the canal on the way into work. That was me. Went home, had a shower, went to the doctor’s and had a tetanus and antibiotics. Turned up about 11:30.

DD has just reminded me of the time I absolutely forgot to drop her off at school breakfast club and only realised she was still in the car when I got to work ! She was 9 years old and reading so hadn't noticed. Boss thought it was hilarious.

DD is now 27 and still loves to read on journey's.

His Mum called me, he was too sick to come to work, yet later that morning he was in another branch chatting to staff..they rang to say

One of my ex colleagues rang in sick because she had spilt curry in her bag.

I wish I was joking but its true

Her horse died. Ok, a tragic and upsetting thing, but three weeks off? You don’t get that long if your mum dies!

I'm sure somebody has already mentioned the autocorrect but the potato scolding you is just brilliant.

A colleague had to leave early as his neighbour had called to tell him that his wife was throwing all of his possessions out of the window and changing the locks. I guess his well known philandering had one to a head.

He was a knob. Everyone in the office was secretly cheering on the wife.

My colleague rang in sick saying he thought he had the same thing my boss had.

She had been off sick a couple of days before. With morning sickness.

😂

The bus was blown over on the seafront on her way in and she’d had to give resuscitation to a man (whose life she saved) and the shock of it all made her unable to work. We waited with bated breath for the report of this dramatic event on the news but no news came. And no Denise, we didn’t believe you the other time you were two hours late because you had found a man collapsed at the side of the road and gave him mouth to mouth and saved his life…..

Had a colleague who did turn up to work having failed to get her kids two gerbils out from their sofa that morning. ‘It’ll be fine’ she said. The photos of the sofa devastation from that evening were astonishing. If you ever need something properly wrecked, leave it to gerbils!

Doors that need a key to unlock from the inside are so dangerous - what if there was a fire and the key can't be found?

Why didn't someone go out a window to pick up the keys from outside though?

She got stung by a bee - was off for about a week while wfh!

My old boss rang in sick the night after the Xmas party - where he’d downed a couple of bottles of wine and numerous shots - because he’d eaten some vegetables at the dinner and decided he was so ill he must have been allergic to kale without realising!
Ringing in with ‘kale poisoning’ became company shorthand anytime anyone ever rang in sick after a big night out/ suspected big night out! Events company, so there was some leeway given for us young staffers who worked a lot of evenings/nights/early hours of the morning.

A fancy rat! I feel like we should get a fancy rat, sounds fancy!