Worst reasons collegues have rang in sick....

[Itsawildworld85]

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

Upstairs windows were fire windows so opened fully but I wasn't going to be risking climbing out of one of them for the sake of keys. In an actual fire I'd take the potential fall over dying of smoke inhalation, in an actual fire if we were stuck downstairs I'd also have smashed the windows to get us out but - again - not doing that over a set of keys.

I once had to call in that I was locked in flat…boyfriend had left for business trip overseas and taken both sets of keys!

Work found it hilarious and kept ringing to offer to post pizza through letter box/ hold a blanket to catch me if I jumped out of window etc. Luckily got hold of boyfriend just before he boarded plane, who contacted colleague who was able to retrieve spare car keys from his desk, drive to airport, retrieve flat keys from boyfriend’s car, and come and let me out!

I called into work to tell them I could now come in and my boss said it wasn’t worth it for the couple of hours left and to take day off… and that they wouldn’t take it off my annual leave as they’d all had such a good laugh at my expense!

Reminds me when I woke one Saturday morning to find my husband had left for work at 7am.
He was back an hour later after he got to work to fund an empty car park.
Still don't let him forget it

Next doors dog barking at night made them too tired.

My lesson was once interrupted by a Deputy Head telling me I needed to go home, she could hardly speak for laughing! I had left the house and locked up, my daughter was on study leave and still in bed, apparently she had gone through the main front door and it had slammed shut, leaving her in the porch as the outer door was locked, she had managed to attract the attention of a. thankfully, nosey neighbour with whom she shared details of my school and she'd phoned. We couldn't leave a key in the outer door when it was locked otherwise the door couldn't be unlocked from the outside, as we expensively found out earlier in the year.

That happened to me once when I was at primary school… I hadn’t even noticed her till she trotted into classroom behind me and teacher asked “whose cat is that?”. Was then told to take her home… luckily she was a softy and easily carried… had to get Mum to keep her in when I left for school after that as it turned out she was following me out of sight, going through peoples front gardens!

I didn't phone in sick ... but one time I was an hour late for work because my skirt was acting weird and twisting up when I walked. So I waited for M&S to open so I could buy a new skirt (and then got distracted trying on about 4 different things).
I told my line manager my skirt had split on the way in.

No, she’d need a gentleman dog for that.

I had a colleague once who was constantly late. One day, our boss’ boss caught him coming in and asked him what happened. He said nothing had happened, he had just been relaxing. He didn’t last too long after that.

Mine (TRUE) "I'm locked in the house" It was completely true despite how ridiculous it sounded. I hadn't realised until I went to leave for work. My housemate had picked up my keys and chubblocked the door. The windows were all too small. Nobody believed me and said I needed to get better with my lies. It was so embarrassing, I vowed next time I would just say I had diarrhea. I had a perfect attendance record and actually really resented being called a liar even though I knew it sounded ludicrous.

A colleague of mine who was always calling in sick or arriving late once arrived halfway through the day. I heard him with complete sincerity explain to the boss that the night before himself and his girlfriend had been out for dinner. When they arrived home they discovered his girlfriend's cat had got it's claw stuck and was hanging on the curtain. They rescued the cat who was fine physically. However his girlfriend was very upset so he had to stay up late comforting her. She was still off colour that morning so they decided to sleep late then go out for brunch and shake it all off.

Had a collegue ring in five Sundays in a row. Different excuse each time but she wasn't able to get up after going out the night before.

A colleague of mine´s father died twice. It was hilarious. She obviously forgot who she told lies to. Was annoyed with me as I told her what? Once is a misfortune, twice is carelessness...She didn´t last long.

His freezer had broken down so he had to sell his food.

My mum took our cat to the vet for an injury it had picked up that morning on her lunch break of her double shift as a nurse. The cat didn't take too kindly to the trip to the vets and scratched the hell out of my mum on its way to the roof of the vets. It took a while to get the cat down and then my mum had to call her ward to say she couldn't come back as she needed to get her scratches dressed.

Another time she was asked to take a week off work as she turned up with a broken nose and two black eyes after falling down the stairs and they didn't want her to scare the patients.

Not sick, but I was once late for work because someone had taken a poo in the tube carriage.

Was an early morning as I was due to run an event starting at 8am, one of the first tubes and it looked like it'd been left there from the night before. Everyone who boarded the carriage at Kennington was being very British and ignoring it until a woman got onto the tube at Charing Cross, screamed and alerted the station staff. They wound up having to take the train out of service (leading to the memorable announcement "Ladies and Gentlemen, this train is being taken out of service due to a passenger defecating in the carriage), then took a while to get everyone off, the train cleared, the Northern line restarted etc.

My boss had initially been a bit pissed off as it was vital all of us were there for 7am but found the reason funny enough to give me a free pass 😅

Weirdly, I've been given that excuse too.

But my fave would be when a peer called me to tell me that their cat was depressed so they were going to stay at home and play with it. They then had the cheek to ask me to tell our manager for them!

A friend of mine took 6 weeks off work when their dog died.

Works for the DWP... they've taken so much time off 'sick' (they admit they aren't sick, they just want the time off) it's unreal. I'm talking up to 3 months at a time...they even took a month off during their probationary period...still passed it.

The DWP definitely doesn't practice what it preaches!

Her pet rat died...had 2 days off compassionate leave! I had to take annual leave to attend my partner's grandads funeral!

I had the pleasure of working in a school and managing cover and my god, teachers love a sick day!

My favourite was always when they would call in complaining about gout affecting their foot or a sprained ankle etc but with a rasping sick voice. It was comical.

I didn't call in sick but I did have to leave early once because someone was on the roof of my house after jumping out of his flat window next door, and was threatening to jump off. It was being followed on local news. Was most surreal when a colleague shouted "hey, Hee, isn't that your son's bedroom window on the (local newspaper) live stream?"

Husbands colleague last week, had to go home as he had a headache caused by his dog heading him!

I will be late because my potatoes are hot and will wilt my lettuce (lunch box issues)... eventually showed up 2.5hrs late, no fucks given.

The department PA once called in sick because she'd seen a dead squirrel in the road on her way to the station and it upset her so much. She was a delicate thing bless her. Got away with murder because she gave us all such a good laugh (and tbf she was good at her job, when she was there...).

The funniest excuse I ever heard of, was many years ago, a colleague was late, the manager asked her why she was late, and in front of other staff members said, my old man wanted sex this morning, that hasn’t happened in years, so I wasn’t going to miss the opportunity! This honestly happened we worked in a bank! Never forgotten it.

Her grandson had died. She was 19 and her sons were aged 1 and 3. She did not have a granddaughter.