Ok. Maybe that isn't a fair title. Perhaps some of the excuses are true. But I would like to see what others have been told as far as why someone called off. Here's a few of my favorites:
1. My babysitter is in jail so I can't come in.
2. I burned my hand on some food so I can't work today.
3. I forgot I had to work today, so I stayed up too late and am too tired to come in.
4. My child got stung by a bee (several hours ago) so I don't want to come in.
5. I'm mad at (supervisor) so I'm not working today.
I have used "I'm stressed to death and am taking a "mental health" day today." Yes, I was wrote for an absence, lol. But I was being honest. Anyway, what have you heard?
I used to work for a supervisor who, when someone called in sick she would have to tell a story about how she had that same ailment before and still came to work. for instance.....if someone called in with a broken leg, she would say "the nurse called in b/c she broke her leg....I broke my ankle AND my foot and I still came to work". but some of the excuses were ridiculous.. like an aide called in because her kidneys failed and she had to start dialysis that day. i bet it aggravated her b/c she couldnt out-do that.
First off, let me say that I'm supremely accident prone. It used to be very difficult to wake up in the morning so I would set an alarm clock across the room so that I would have to get out of bed in order to turn it off. One morning, I dove back into bed after turning it off and slid all the way into my nightstand. With my eyebrow. I called in late as I was heading to urgent care for stitches. I showed up later with 2 stitches and a glorious shiner. Everyone was quite amused when I told my tale.
[Yes, I have been asked to give reasons. At one job I explained I had food poisoning and was throwing up, so the manager suggested I still come in and could just carry a bucket or garbage can with me everywhere to throw up in. At the same job I lost my voice and could not talk at all. The manager told me to come in and carry an erasable white board with me to communicate with the patients. I refused to come in both times.
I would have asked for those requests in writing and told her I'd be more than happy to comply once received. I'm guessing this alone would put a stop to this nonsense, but if not, I'd then go into work with my bucket or whiteboard and hand out patient complaint forms and the health department tip line number as I puked in the patient rooms or woke patients up by shaking them and turning on the lights so they can read my whiteboard.
I called to say I'd be late because my two horses escaped from my fence. I tore through the neighborhood trying to catch them before they reached the main road and became roadkill. Years after the fact I can laugh about it, but it was adrenaline-pumping at the time. Thankfully I caught the horses without incident. My supervisor (non-nursing job) loved the story.
I had a coworker who was late with this excuse at least every other week. I suggested we pitch in and buy her a gift certificate to a fencing company for Christmas.
I know someone who forgot they were working a shift and went away for the weekend. She remembered and called in "sick" from the hotel she was staying at. Too bad call display showed she was in a hotel in Niagara Falls! Busted!
i had to call in sick .............i had 3 days off and had gone home to my dad's place and was helping him move sheep. I was running across the field and caught my ankle in a rabbit hole and sprained it quite badly and wasn't able to weight bear. problem was only rostered on for 1 day and then had another 3 days off so it sounded suspicious. However the black and blue bruising on my ankle when I came back to work couldn't be faked.
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bloodorange
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Unless George Foreman is your great-uncle and it's a really unlucky year!