Career Builder's 2011's Most Unusual Excuses for Missing Work

[her209]

http://thehiringsite.careerbuilder....nusual-and-adorable-excuses-for-missing-work/

- “My 12-year-old daughter stole my car and I had no other way to work. I didn’t want to report it to the police.”
- “Bats got in my hair.”
- “A refrigerator fell on me.”
- “I was in line at a coffee shop when a truck carrying flour backed up and dumped the flour into my convertible.”
- “A deer bit me during hunting season.”
- “I ate too much at a party.”
- “I fell out of bed and broke my nose.”
- “I got a cold from a puppy.”
- “My child stuck a mint up his nose and we had to go to the ER to remove it.”
- “I hurt my back chasing a beaver.”
- “I got my toe caught in a vent cover.”
- “I had a headache after going to too many garage sales.”
- “My brother-in-law was kidnapped by a drug cartel while in Mexico.”
- “I drank anti-freeze by mistake and had to go to the hospital.”
- “I was at a bowling alley and a bucket filled with water (due to a leak) crashed through the ceiling and hit me on the head.”

 

[actuarial]

A couple of those things could actually be true, but if they did happen I think they'd lie about it.

When I was a kid, I rolled off a bed and hit my head (ear) directly on the corner of the night stand. It caused a gaping hole that started bleeding like mad. Had to be taken to the ER and have it stitched up.

So my mom would have had to call in and say "My son bumped his ear on the night stand so and I had to take him to the ER".

I 100% believe that at some point someone has rolled out of bed and broken their nose.

 

[gar3555]

This one:
- “My child stuck a mint up his nose and we had to go to the ER to remove it.”
is pretty believable. Kids will do anything. My younger brother(at the time 4-5yo) stuck a lego up his nose...took forever to get the damn thing out.

 

[torpid]

I firmly believe I got bronchitis from my cat a couple years back. It had been almost 15 years since I had bronchitis and it developed rapidly shortly after my cat was diagnosed with it. Both of us required antibiotics to fully recover. I wonder what my employer thought about that... I mean, I was actually diagnosed and everything with bronchitis but I repeatedly told them that I was convinced my cat transmitted it to me.

 

[Saint Nick]

I called into work once and said I was too busy playing Call of Duty.

 

[crownjules]

I heard a few audio ones. One woman called it saying that she had to miss work because her doctor had scheduled an autopsy on her that day.

 

[BUTCH1]

We had a guy who called in claiming he "broke his dick", he was a huge cocaine user, said he had an erection and rolled out of bed on top of it, who knows, he was using about an 8 ball/day when this happened..

 

[zinfamous]

This one:
- “My child stuck a mint up his nose and we had to go to the ER to remove it.”
is pretty believable. Kids will do anything. My younger brother(at the time 4-5yo) stuck a lego up his nose...took forever to get the damn thing out.

yep. I think most of those are believable.

 

[SearchMaster]

This one:
- “My child stuck a mint up his nose and we had to go to the ER to remove it.”
is pretty believable. Kids will do anything. My younger brother(at the time 4-5yo) stuck a lego up his nose...took forever to get the damn thing out.

My sister stuck one of those orange Vitamin C pills in her nose one time. My mom tried to get her to blow it out; she was blowing out nasty orange snot for about 5 minutes

 

[Ns1]

This one:
- “My child stuck a mint up his nose and we had to go to the ER to remove it.”
is pretty believable. Kids will do anything. My younger brother(at the time 4-5yo) stuck a lego up his nose...took forever to get the damn thing out.

yep, friend of mine had to go to ER to get something removed from his kids nose.

 

[FoBoT]

why does it matter why? it is completely subjective

 

[JTsyo]

“I hurt my back chasing a beaver.”

Who hasn't missed work after chasing some beaver?

 

[basslover1]

- “I hurt my back chasing a beaver"

Sounds credible.


Edit: Damn iPhone and slow text editing

 

[bignateyk]

Lol. I like my excuse.

Me: Hey boss, I'm not gonna be in today, I'll see you tomorrow.
Boss: Ok.

 

[darkewaffle]

The one about the kid shoving something in his nose reminds me of a Pete and Pete episode.

I had a headache after going to too many garage sales.

Is my favorite, because it really raises more questions than it answers.

 

[bignateyk]

I firmly believe I got bronchitis from my cat a couple years back. It had been almost 15 years since I had bronchitis and it developed rapidly shortly after my cat was diagnosed with it. Both of us required antibiotics to fully recover. I wonder what my employer thought about that... I mean, I was actually diagnosed and everything with bronchitis but I repeatedly told them that I was convinced my cat transmitted it to me.

It's possible to transfer disease from animals to people...

http://www.2ndchance.info/zoonoses.htm