WTF. Other people at work rely on you to come in and do your job so they don't have to. Get your lazy azz into work and do the job you're being paid to do!!!
2006-08-09 19:38:44
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answered by Sean T 5
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Smart Excuses
1. I've Earned It: No one can argue with performance. Come in two or three hours early -- or stay late -- for a week or two. Then negotiate a day off in advance. "Really work when you're there, so you'll be able to feel good about taking time off," says Andrea Nierenberg, president of The Nierenberg Group, a management consulting and personal marketing practice.
2. I'm Playing Golf with a Client: For this one to work, you've got to have a job that requires you to meet and court current and prospective clients. Neil Simpkins, an account executive at Oxford Communications, has used this one successfully. One note of caution: Meet the client; don't just say you did.
3. I Have a Doctor's Appointment: This excuse will get you out of work for a half-day or so. Make the appointment first thing in the morning or late in the day, say around 3 p.m. You can leave the office by 2:30 p.m. and get home (hopefully) by 4 p.m. The shortened day will help you recharge, especially if you schedule it on a Friday afternoon.
4. I Have Cramps: Before you dismiss this one, think about it: Who can argue? "It's such an embarrassing topic that nobody will ever challenge it," says Jennifer Newman, vice president of Lippe Taylor Public Relations. She has used this excuse -- and had it used on her -- successfully. "It's one of those things that men honestly have no clue about, and women can sympathize with." One important point: Don't use this one if you're a man. It'll never work.
5. I'm Working from Home: This is an excellent way to give yourself a break if your company allows it. Although you'll need to do some work, you can generally get away with a shortened day. And you'll eliminate your commuting time.
Not-So-Smart Excuses
1. There's a Death in the Family: Don't ever use this excuse if it's not true. Your employer will lose all trust in you. "I had an employee whose mother died -- twice," says David Wear, a Virginia PR executive. "He also had the misfortune of losing all his grandparents -- 12 of them -- during a two-year period."
2. I'm Too Sleepy: When she was a manager at IBM, Marilynn Mobley heard it all. This one still makes her laugh: The employee apparently took Tylenol 3 with codeine instead of a vitamin, because the bottles looked alike.
3. I Can't Get My Car Out of the Garage: This is another one that Mobley didn't buy. An employee said that a power failure was preventing him from opening his power-operated garage door. "I reminded him that there's a pull chain on it for just such cases," she says.
4. I Can't Find My Polling Place: Mary Dale Walters, a communications specialist at CCH Inc., couldn't believe this one. A former employee needed an entire day to figure out where she had to go to vote in the 1996 presidential election.
5. I Have a Personal Emergency: This one is so vague that it rarely works. It could mean anything from fatigue to an appointment with your hairdresser, and your boss knows it.
2006-08-09 20:38:48
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answered by doable_rods 5
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Tell them you think you have won the lottery , but you still want to carry on working there as it is a great company to work for , but you need the one day off to sort the cash and the cheque out etc., then tommorow morning go into work and explain that it was all a big mistake , that your boyfriend or husband tricked you and played a video recording of last weeks lottery, after buying a ticket with those numbers on the week after!!!!
Anyways i'm going for a shower now with jumpalicious. (now she'll be needing an excuse not to go to work!!!!!)
2006-08-09 19:44:39
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answered by 株式会THE CITADEL 株式会 4
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Make up something. Anyway you are going to lie. How about you had bedbugs in your bed and they bit you all night long or there were mosquitos or that work sucks or something like that?
Don't be surprised when you go into work and see someone else sitting in your chair doing your work and your boss introducing you to your replacement. Have fun!!!
2006-08-09 19:40:46
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answered by Anonymous
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Leprosy, Dysentery, Consumption.
Or just use Lettermans excuse say you had a case of TAS. Tired *** syndrome
2006-08-09 19:36:52
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answered by alwaysmoose 7
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go to the toilets and put soap in your eyes...
they will go red and start streaming and then you can say you have this terrible migraine and as you will look like crap if you do it, you are guaranteed to get the day off....
good luck to you
sorry when i wrote this i thought you were already at work lol
2006-08-09 23:46:35
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answered by Happy Halloween 4
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we all get like that sometimes, but the best thing is just too go. Once you are there then u just think that you haven't lost a days wages
2006-08-09 21:26:07
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answered by angelamcaulay 2
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Dont make up any excuse, just resign from your job and let a deserving person have it....
2006-08-09 19:47:42
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answered by John B 4
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I am GREAT at this!!! You can say you have a doctors appt....your electricity is out and an electrician is coming at 11:00.......or no hot water....migrane headache......there was a cat fight at 3 am and you couldn't get back to sleep....etc.
2006-08-09 19:37:20
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answered by ~♥~mama-to-be~♥~ 4
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Say you have trouble with your back, ie; you can't get off it! (ha ha.)
On a more serious note, you could say you've seen the news headlines and are too scared to leave the house...(selective agoraphobia.)
2006-08-09 20:14:05
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answered by JustineTime 4
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go on job seekers allowance
have plenty of days off
2006-08-10 00:29:13
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answered by Anonymous
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