‘Management recently cottoned on that a co-worker of mine has now been off on 5 occasions for his grandma dying, lol. She must have got better.’
–fothergillfuckup
14.
‘I once had a leak which caused my ceiling to collapse in my lounge. I still have the photos on my phone, plus the photos of the various stages of repair.
‘I’ve used these in 3 jobs now to get at least 4 days off work, as the tradies can’t come over the weekend, and I’m not allowed to WFH.’
–CozJeez85
15.
‘My sister hated her first job and was too scared to tell our parents, so she stopped going to work for a whole month, saying our mum was seriously ill in hospital.
‘My mum only found out when my sister’s employer sent her a huge bunch of flowers.’
–Agreeable_Guard_7229
16.
‘My son had nits. He didn’t. I did have a massive hangover though.’ -Wooden-Bookkeeper473
17.
‘”I need to be near my own toilet” covers a lot. Too much detail but also not enough.’
–KiwiNo2638
18.
‘I told a boss that my brother had been arrested so I needed to be home to be with my parents. It worked until he actually did get arrested a couple of months later and then it looked suspicious.’
–littlehamster_
19.
‘I said I had to take my cat to the vet because she had been hit by a car. I still feel terrible, must have been 20 years ago.’
–BiscuitCrumbsInBed
20.
‘I couldn’t go because of a funeral. I didn’t mention it was going to my other job to cover for someone who was going to a funeral, just blamed a funeral.’
–WildFrogRancher
21.
‘A girl I worked with years ago phoned in to say she couldn’t make it into work because of heavy snow. That would seem plausible except she lived in the same street as the place we worked, and people, including myself, were making it in from miles away.’
–Bargarran2012
