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There's nothing worse with actually being sick yet not so sick you can still sound quite coherent on the phone.
You feel like a right fraud but know you're fair dinkum.
I'm always a bit unsure about the level of medical detail that I should supply. "Well it all started Friday night..." You almost feel you owe them a good explanation.
Then theirs the classic oldie thats repeated often but i first heard 30 years ago with the then legendary Melb DJ - Rick Melbourne. He used to ring a boss live on air and pretend he was the friend of the worker who was running late.
This particular day he told the boss that his employee was running late because he was going to get a hair cut. The boss said he had no right to get a hair cut on company time. Rick Melbourne then said his friend reckons that if it grows on company time he could have it cut on company time, to which the boss (becomming very aggitated) said his hair didnt all grow on company time and the reply was "he isnt getting it all cut" :D
at a previous job we had one girl call in at 10 and say she wasn't coming in, she had slept in.
We waited for the rest of the excuse, but there wasn't any?? :doh: What scared me, was the boss didn't sack her. ???
Ooorrrrrrrrahhhhh mate bad chicken last night....
thanx pete for that story...kinda wish i didnt read it but oh well, you get that.
i've never gotten out of work...so i got no excuses:rofl:
At Aust Post I've heard some REALLY good ones, but the best was from a female postie. She rang me at 05:55 (06:00 start time) & stated she couldn't come in to work as "my hair hurts!"
She was also the author of the famous excuse "I can't go out on the road today, my bellybutton is infected"
Safe to say she didn't last too long in the job :doh: :doh: :doh:
SOOK!!! You big girls blouse!!Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
Bit of iodine, a band aid & a couple of Aspro & you would of been fine..... SOOK!!! :wink: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
l rang up the boss and said l have got a bit off man trouble
always worked for the chicks
Boss? That chiropractor you recommended? He's a fraud... :(
Gra. maybe the boss was sacking her thats why he didnt finish her employment.
Tony
I once told the boss to his face that he was an a$$$hole and he can go f*** himself, and that I wouldn't be going to work until I felt like it. The boss was cool with that, and even kept paying me!!!!
Guess that's one of the benefits of being self-employed. :D
Told the boss one day that I couldn't come into work because he hadn't cleaned all the blood off the sawbench yet:p. Of course it was my blood from when I almost cut my thumb in half the day before.:(
For the record the boss was the old man and I was still living at home at the time.
I had a job where I had to check and approve (or not) sick leave applications.
The best excuse I ever saw was 'Existential angst'.
Naturally...I approved it.
The next best was 'Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome'
W-K syndrome is advanced alcoholic deterioration of the brain (AKA 'wet brain syndrome')
I approved that one too.
I rang in to say I had fallen off my motorcycle and sprained my wrist..."Nothing serious,be OK in a couple of days."
An hour later...you guessed it,fell off my motorcycle and fractured my wrist.Off work for two weeks and didn't have enough sick leave to cover it.:C
Going off sick and then returning to work with sunburn.:BQuote:
Originally Posted by havenoideaatall
The best one I heard (NOT an excuse of mine though!!!) was....
"I have to go to the doctors because I got smashed last night and when I woke up, my bum was bleeding"
What can you really say to that?