Excuses for Missing Work

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How about a list of wierd excuses for not coming to work?

My favorite: I can't come in today, I'm having vision problems. I just don't see myself working.

Kevin

Specializes in ER, Family Practice, Free Clinics.

I called in late once. I told my supervisor it was raining in my apartment. She thought it very odd that it was sunny outside but raining in my apartment...

The woman above me had her water heater break. Actually true.

Then it happened AGAIN two weeks later, I kid you not. I told a coworker who lives in my complex to come see the mess if they didn't beleive it because I didn't either!

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Specializes in LTC, Home Care, Medical Offices, Plasma.
I'm locked *IN* my house!

Hey now......lol.. I'm sad to say this has ACTUALLY happened to me. No.. I"m not blonde.:nono: We had a screwy deadbolt in our apartment that didnt always want to unlatch. Locked me in twice before I could convince mgmt to change it. I did make it to work, just a few hours late.

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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.

We had a totally useless admin assistant a few years ago. She called off about half the time. My favorite involved a number of absences taken after one of those acrylic brochure holders fell on her nose as she was attempting to pull it off a high shelf without a stool. Never mind that it was her own fault that she got ''injured'' (if you can call a microscopic contusion an injury). This chick was calling in for weeks afterwards, saying ''I'm having trouble breathing through my nose'' and ''I was in so much pain last night I couldn't sleep''. I hope to God she didn't end up workman's comp for this, but she probably did. Thank God she left- to go to law school! She may be a personal injury attorney by now, lol.

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Specializes in M/S, home health, LTC, rehab/orth.
In nursing school, this one student came to clinical late. His clothes were all wrinkled, he was a mess. His excuse for being late, "The headlights on my car don't work, so I had to wait till the sun came up to drive in to the hospital".:eek:

I really had this happen to me! I'd had one headlight bulb out for a couple of weeks, my husband was supposed to fix it but hadn't gotten around to it, and I went to start my car to go to work (had to be there at 5:30 AM and I lived 45 min away) and the second bulb was out. Needless to say I was late and took it upon myself to get the bulbs at an auto part store and asked the guy there to help me put them in.

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Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.

We had a traveling nurse once who flew back up north to visit her family. She flew out of the Atlanta airport, a couple hours' drive from where we worked.

She flew in just a few hours before she was supposed to be at work. When she went to get her car out of long-term parking, she found she'd left her keys in Michigan and didn't have a spare!

It was the first time I'd heard anybody call in due to their car keys being in another state!

Her sister overnighted her the keys.

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I got called to work because my co-workers husband took her car apart and couldn't get it back together.:eek:

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

I had a nursing tech call in with a "family emergency." Her mother in law bought a new newspaper box and was afraid if she didn't get it put up she wouldn't get her morning paper. When I told her that really didn't sound like an emergency she said "family is family and I'm not coming in."

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We had a girl at my old job who called in a LOT. The best one was when she called in on Saturday with a headache. My boss asked her how her weekend was and she must have forgotten that she called in because she said, "Well, I took my son to the carnival for the first time on Saturday." Whoops!!

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The one I like best is about not showing up for work at all.

When you do come in next time, be sure to sleep in your clothes, look haggard, and run into the workplace, shouting "Don't pay the ransom, I got away!!!"

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Specializes in ICU/CCU, Peds, DD's, Hospice.

How about "I can't possibly come in, I was out drinking until 3am and I am still drunk"

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
i got called to work because my co-workers husband took her car apart and couldn't get it back together.:eek:

my ex-husband did that to me -- twice! i went to work, but was really late after a 30 mile bicycle ride!

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

i was working in madison, wisconsin in the early 80s and one of our co-workers was getting married in milwaukee. everyone wanted to go to the wedding, and when the schedule came out there were a lot of disgruntled nurses. on the day of the wedding, everyone called out sick except me -- they floated two nurses up to our floor and we ran short. even the na called in sick! i don't remember what anyone's actual excuse was, but dare i mention that our manager was at the wedding? and that one nurse got fired and the rest were on disciplinary probation?

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