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

Originally posted by Sjackson983

"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:

That's a good one!:roll

My girl child (21 yo) has finally learned to not waste her sick days on being sick...and now saves them for fun stuff.

Luckily she works alone in a cubicle.

One winter's evening, a student nurse colleague, who was not the best time manager, had not come in that day for his 7am shift. He pitched up at 10 minutes before 7 pm and bragged that for once, he was early!! He could only stand in surprise as all of us fell about laughing. He had genuinely overslept by 12 hours!

Actually worked with a CNA who requested Thanksgiving week off because she had to fly home to attend a funeral. Only problem with the request was that she sent it to the Adminsitrator in October!!! THe Adminstrator wanted to know, if it was common practice to schedule deaths in her country? No she didn't get the week off. But we all laughed for days, including the Administrator.

One nurse calls in several times a year claiming her immediate family members have passed away and gets funeral pay for the deaths. Problem is that it seems the same people have died over and over and over again.

True story

I was waiting for night shift to came on for an hour before I finally decided to call her mobile, she had gotten on to the road the hospital is in......... then followed it out of town and was halfway to the next when I called!!:roll

Told her not to bother turning round, just keep going to the next town and apply for a job there!! LOL!! First and only time I fired someones orifice!

i went to college with a girl who would come up with the best excuses for being late to class - even the teachers looked forward to them.

my personal favourite was when she rushed in, out of breath, about an hour into the class, claiming that she'd been on her way up from the bus stop, all set to be on time for class, when she slipped over and fell into a rogue time bubble but 'thank goodness i only lost an hour. there was a couple in there with 2 kids who said they met in there'.

the teacher actually stopped the class and said 'ok, everyone give nerissa a big round of applause'

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

I had to call in once when I was a CNA because my car was stuck in over a foot of snow in our driveway. There was a bad snowstorm going on, and the plow truck had blown snow from the rural street onto our driveway several times which made the snow in our driveway even deeper. I managed to get it partway up the driveway and it wasn't budging. I tried several times to get it out, but with the 50 mile an hour winds and -30 windchill, it just wasn't happening.

Another time I had to call in because there had been a very severe thunderstorm (actually called a derechio storm) that had knocked hundreds of trees and power lines down in our area. All the roads were blocked, and while driving around trying to find an open road I was still dodging falling trees as the storm was still going.

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

I worked as a CNA 3-11 while pregnant with my youngest daughter (started nursing school when she was 2 mo old). When I was around 7 months along, I got a nasty case of the flu or food poisoning or something. I went to work feeling really sick to my stomach but figuring the nausea was just cuz of being pregnant. Within a couple hours of clocking in, I was on the toilet puking in a trash can while having diarrhea and was absolutely miserable. I was shaking, dizzy, and had cold sweats. I asked the house supervisor about going home early, and she told me to stay and feed the patients and "we have bathrooms you can throw up in, you'll be fine". This was because we were short-staffed, but she was in the process of sending two other people home early for no good reason. Luckily, some other CNAs spoke up for me and I went home immediately and they stayed. I barely made it home (probably shouldn't've drove) and spent the rest of the night puking almost nonstop. She ended up getting in trouble because my coworkers reported to the DON that she tried to make me stay.

hey this is a great thread to resurrect! ;)

I was working as an ED tech last summer and putting together a pair of those aluminum crutches--the ones where you press the little button to make them taller/shorter. I pressed and pushed or something and managed to cut off a perfectly round chunk from the pad of my index finger. OUCH! I actually watched the perfectly round piece of my flesh fly across the room; a beautiful avulsion.

The ed doc made me wash it in chlorhexadine soap and wrapped it in GAUZE and I had to stay. I got home at midnight and took the gauze off like he told me. It ripped off, made me bleed all over.

Long and short, I went to my doc first thing in the morning and she called me out of work for two days since I had tube bandage on etc and couldn't get my hands wet.

So I called out for two days because I cut my finger.

Specializes in Pediatrics.

I was working a double and was waiting for the day relief to come because I was exhausted! At around 6AM the phone rang on the unit. It was the day nurse and she was frantic. She said that she had spent the last two hours paging the supe nonstop and hadn't gotten a return call. She said she wouldn't be in because she thought she was having a miscarriage because she was passing huge clots and had bad cramps...could I please pass the message on to the supervisor because she had to get to emergency. I said sure and went on a crusade to find the supe ASAP. When I found the supe I relayed the message to her and I got the strangest look. She was like "The nurse on that unit today is Niki." I was like, "Yea, that's who called. She said she paged you over and over." Tammi replies, (with a straight face no doubt) "I never got any pages from nurses this morning, but I doubt she would have paged me anyway." I must have looked thoroughly confused because she went on to say "Because last year when she had her emergency hysterectomy I was the one to transport her to the hospital!"

Whoops!

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

I worked with one gal who called in like clockwork. Every time she accrued 8 hours she called in. Various and sundry excuses, but we weren't interested, we always knew when it was going to happen.

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