lame excuses not to get to work

[Matthew Arnold]

Had an apprentice who called in sick saying he had been spewing his ring up all night. Funnily enough we saw him in his local KFC stuffing his face, his face was a picture when we rolled up in the petrol station next door. He was told to have the rest of the week of and told to buck his ideas up.

[Stefan Palokangas]

Phoned me up said his battery in his car was dead so could not make it, I drove to his house to pick him up just to notice he and his daughter packing his car full to the roof with yellow pages to deliver in the area.

[Mountain man]

Phoned me up said his battery in his car was dead so could not make it, I drove to his house to pick him up just to notice he and his daughter packing his car full to the roof with yellow pages to deliver in the area.

 

Ha ha! Did you confront him?

[Stefan Palokangas]

He never seen me and i didn't confront him, but the trust died there and then. I walked up the lane towards his house when i seen them loading the car.

 

I knew then why he needed to borrow the van the week before, to get all this Yellow Pages to his house.

Edited April 4, 2015 by Stefan Palokangas

[Mountain man]

Pathetic isn't it? If you're going to lie, lie big.

[White Noise]

Best one I ever heard was off a young lad . He didnt turn in so we phoned him and his reply was class ( I FORGOT I HAD A JOB ) He had only been with us for a few months bless . Stayed on for 6 six years though .

[david wood]

not a skved work story but a school one.

 

my brother once skived off school saying after a nights rain the road was flooded.....

 

2 problems..

 

we were living top of a hill

 

the woodwork teacher drove past every day..

 

his excuse was reallly dumb!

 

i can honestly say in last 25 years working i have only skived work twice making up excuse of stomach bug,,,, sadly wasnt far from truth with a miserable hangover from too many night before.

 

now i am older the hangovers take less to achieve, longer to go away and just not worth it.

[Stefan Palokangas]

It's way better being upfront and honest, i would respect that so much more no matter what the reason was.

The "excuses alot breed" needs to grow a set of balls.

[skyhuck]

Had on lad not turn up at the pickup point, no call, no text, rang him no reply.

 

Following morning he rang saying he was at the pickup point, why had no one collected him??

 

Needless to say he was not collected and never worked for me again.

[Weaver39]

When I was working full time as a diver I heard loads of excuses for guys who wanted to get out of the water.

The favourites are;"I have to get out, I've lost dexterity in my fingers!"? Or, "I have to get out, I've got vertigo..."

One bloke didn't turn up at all one day cos his cat was poorly..