True story (as told to me by the client in question):
Software Developer neglects to email important information (conference call info) to client in a timely fashion (the client never received it).
His excuse: His email messaged must have collided with somebody else's email message, preventing it from reaching the client.
Heard any lame excuses?
2007-12-21 16:20:40 · 19 answers · asked by Darth Cheney 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
"His email message"
2007-12-21 16:21:15 · update #1
A Merry Christmas to you and your's, too.
((((1forHIM))))
2007-12-21 16:37:48 · update #2
r u randy: That is a pretty lame excuse. LOL
2007-12-21 16:43:52 · update #3
Major Flirt- We had a laugh over this excuse. Quite shocking, isn't it?
2007-12-21 17:05:12 · update #4
True story... I had a gay co-worker who called in sick with "PMS" and "bloating discomfort" .... (He got fired. Imagine that ....LOL)
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2007-12-21 16:29:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 14⤊ 0⤋
Not only was the excuse itself lame, but the developer was completely lame to think anyone with half a brain would buy that excuse. Being a developer myself, I would definitely have come up with something better than THAT - ha ha!
2007-12-21 16:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
A restaurant owner whose kitchen exhaust system we service had rats (massive- 2ft from nose to tail) running over the stoves, living, eating and pooping in the cooking pans, food storage containers and serving dishes.
I informed him no uncertain terms that his kitchen disgusted me (I was so nauseated by the smell of rat poo and pee that I didn't care if we lost that particular job...I just wanted to get away from the damn stench!!)
I asked him why the place was riddled rats and he said 'Pest controller man not do his job good enough'. So I said why didn't he try traps. He replied that the rats wouldn't go to the traps...which was true enough - why eat from a trap when there's open containers of fresh food galore...meat left on the floor to defrost...up to an inch of food debris on the floor in some places.
I suggest he sweep up the floor so there was less food laying about and he said it was too hard to do that.
The city council went ballistic on him and he decided it was far easier to sweep a floor than pay thousands in fines.
(LOL- Mad Scientist has an excellent one!!!)
2007-12-21 16:35:49 · answer #3 · answered by . 6 · 9⤊ 0⤋
I'm not going to be in to work today, as I've got a nasty stomach cramp. Well, I ate a taco from Taco Bell last night, and apparently it must not have gone too well, because now I've got a nasty headache, can barely move, and my head hurts like a *****. I also suspect I'll be constipated and stuck around here all day.
2007-12-21 22:44:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
I had a very young apprentice ask if he could possibly take the following day off. I informed him that he could not as we had a very busy day ahead.
The next day he actually called me first thing in the morning to tell me his mother had died, but that he would only be missing the one day and would be back to work the following day.
I let the day slide and confronted him the following day and he of course admitted to having lied and skipping work. He was also green from being hung over. Since I'm such a nice guy I had him doing the best jobs, gutting fish, cleaning endless piles of squid and amazingly the grease trap happened to need to be cleaned that day..
2007-12-21 17:05:13 · answer #5 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 14⤊ 0⤋
I once worked with someone who was always late each and every morning. He was told by our boss that one more occurance would have him shown to the door. Not long afterward--big surprise--he was late again. His excuse?
"I was right in the middle of a good dream."
The boss thought that was hysterical, and for a second there, I almost wished I had thought of that to use for myself... but then I saw how well it worked for him.
He was walked to the door.
2007-12-22 06:44:43 · answer #6 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My hubby called work one day and said "I won't be there today, as my wife would like to get pregnant and I would like to be there for the grand finale." The boss gave him a "family medical leave day" :)
(when my hubby called he was joking but apparently either the boss didn't get it...or he really did and gave my hubby the day off)
I had someone call me telling me he was too tired to come into work due to a test he had taken 4 days prior.
2007-12-22 01:49:53 · answer #7 · answered by queen of snarky-yack again 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
This is quite serious:
My mum worked with a religious lady who one day didn't show up for work, but phoned in and said the Lord had warned her to stay home that day. She was convinced that if she left her house, something terrible would have happened, at least that was her story.
2007-12-21 16:41:07 · answer #8 · answered by Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo! 6 · 12⤊ 0⤋
I received an yahoo answers e-mail the other day that was meant for someone else but I've never heard of them "colliding". tee hee
2007-12-22 10:56:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I had a guy call in and tell me his house burned down. I gave him some hell, as it was at the end of a holiday weekend. Then he brought in the clipping from the paper.
2007-12-21 17:55:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
one of the guys i work with called in on a monday morning and said that his girlfriends dog killed several of his dogs young puppies,seriously ,i mean whats the deal ,he had to make the funeral arrangements or what ?
2007-12-21 17:24:39 · answer #11 · answered by joe c 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋