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By: HRM Today - Blog Archive » “I Hit a Nun with My Motorcycle”: Most Unusual Excuses for Missing Work

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:24:11 +0000

[...] in 2008’s most unusual sick excuses, this year’s list is spotted with strange animal injuries, other bouts with nature or [...]

By: HRM Today - Blog Archive » I Hit a Nun with My Motorcycle: 2009’s Most Unusual Excuses for Missing Work

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:46:18 +0000

[...] in 2008’s most unusual sick excuses, this year’s list is spotted with strange animal injuries, other bouts with nature or [...]

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:42:21 +0000

I had a very young employee tell me she could not come in because her cat needed braces. Another good one I heard was they’re boyfriend got into a real bad car accident (near death, ICU, so tragic, the whole 9 yards), the boyfriend showed up the next morning looking for her. I guess the huge advances in modern medicine fix ICU patients overnight. I had a training class of some new CSRs and another girl’s fiance had a car accident, she even got someone to call the office about it, a week later her parents called to see how her performance was at her new job, they thought I was lying when I told them I hadn’t seen her since training. Oh no, not OUR daughter. Oh, and they didnt even know she had a fiance. You have to appreciate the creativity on the cat braces.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:19:17 +0000

We had an employee call in on a Monday to say he found his wife in bed with a woman on Saturday night, and had to have to day off to look for a new apartment for himself.

By: Excuses for calling in sick « John P. Kreiss, MorganSullivan, Inc.

Excuses for calling in sick « John P. Kreiss, MorganSullivan, Inc. — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:44:36 +0000

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By: The Hire Sense » Actual Excuses For Missing Work

The Hire Sense » Actual Excuses For Missing Work — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:23:03 +0000

[...] usually runs some sort of “unusual reasons for missing work” story every year. This year’s offering is refined down to 8 entries, but is still fairly [...]

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:27:35 +0000

We had a woman leave for a hair appt on her lunch break. She called later to say she could not return becuase they had botched her hair so badly she had to go find another hair salon to fix it.

By: R

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:51:21 +0000

There was a lady we had worked with that claimed she had been struck by lightening NOT ONCE, but twice … she was cute little lady … anyhow she called in once saying a snail bit her finger. I will never forget that. She didn’t get in trouble because .. afterall … she has been struck by lightening a few times … would your head be all there??

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:38:54 +0000

Be careful with your Facebook status when you call in sick, this guy wasn't. The Register.co.uk

By: seenitall?

seenitall? — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:23:56 +0000

We had an employee call in sick and leave a message on the boss’s answering machine. The message was time-stamped for 3:30 a.m. Unfortunately, she was apparently so “sick” that she failed to notice that she hadn’t actually hung up the phone. After she said “bye,” the recording kept going, with the sound of clinking beer bottles, and her voice saying “my supervisor is so dXXX dumb; she’ll believe anything! Get me another beer!” When we fired her, we simply played back the message to her. Case closed. And no, she didn’t win her unemployment case either.