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Hair on fire, cow chasing, top list of ridicuous reasons people are late for work

Poke Staff. Updated January 30th, 2016

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US job site career builder recently conducted a survey to find this year’s most outrageous reasons people had for being late to work. There are some very creative excuses – here are some highlights.

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