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  • Addicted said:

    DA9 said:

    Had someone I worked with years ago who went through 6 or 7 grandparents dying.

    Ive got 7...
    Easy to have eight Grandparents.

    Mum's parents (2)
    Dad's parents (2)
    Mother-In-Law's Parents (2)
    Father-In-Law's Parents (2)
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,863
    You do know the mother in law and father in laws parents are not your grandparents
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited March 2017
    MrOneLung said:

    You do know the mother in law and father in laws parents are not your grandparents

    Unless you are from Norwich and you could claim them to be any relation you like - and would be believed.

    Mentioning Norwich, has given me a good idea for a sick day. I'm going to call in sick one day and say I've had to have my 6th finger amputated.
  • MrOneLung said:

    You do know the mother in law and father in laws parents are not your grandparents

    Yeah of course they're not technically your Grandparents but (1) depends how close you are with your Wifes family (2) How clued up work are
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    "I'm sorry I can't come to work today because you make me sick".
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Become an alcoholic, nice bit of time off for a stint in rehab and plenty of opportunities to fall off of the wagon.

  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,301

    Addicted said:

    DA9 said:

    Had someone I worked with years ago who went through 6 or 7 grandparents dying.

    Ive got 7...
    Easy to have eight Grandparents.

    Mum's parents (2)
    Dad's parents (2)
    Mother-In-Law's Parents (2)
    Father-In-Law's Parents (2)
    Or Mum's parents, Step-Dad's parents, Dad's parents and Step-Mum's parents. Or if you REALLY wanted to take the piss, introduce step-grandparents into the equation too...
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,603

    Become an alcoholic, nice bit of time off for a stint in rehab and plenty of opportunities to fall off of the wagon.

    Spoken like a true Scot ;)
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,354
    While still in a coma following cardiac arrest, the company I worked for, for twenty years needed proof and decided to send a visitor to check out the facts, not overly untoward I guess, made for an interesting and frank exchange of views when negotiations over my dismissal several years later took place.
  • Oh_Yoni_Boy
    Oh_Yoni_Boy Posts: 1,762

    Addicted said:

    DA9 said:

    Had someone I worked with years ago who went through 6 or 7 grandparents dying.

    Ive got 7...
    Easy to have eight Grandparents.

    Mum's parents (2)
    Dad's parents (2)
    Mother-In-Law's Parents (2)
    Father-In-Law's Parents (2)
    And the best thing about them is that when you move jobs they all regenerate.

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  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    Needed to finish some decorating so took the week off with a dodgy back. No word of a lie I actually strained my back on the way into work on the following Monday morning, boss said if I wasn't up to it I could go home, I told him I would struggle through the day and see how I felt the next morning....took another couple of days off to tart the kitchen up.
  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804

    Addicted said:

    DA9 said:

    Had someone I worked with years ago who went through 6 or 7 grandparents dying.

    Ive got 7...
    Easy to have eight Grandparents.

    Mum's parents (2)
    Dad's parents (2)
    Mother-In-Law's Parents (2)
    Father-In-Law's Parents (2)
    Both my parents parents are divorced, 3 remarried (before I was born). So 7 proper grandparents at the time of writing that. 5 now :(
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    Dog ate my car keys...

    I've rolled that over from school.
  • Tunwellsaddick
    Tunwellsaddick Posts: 2,453
    A "sick note" colleague phoned in one day and said he had fallen down the stairs at home. The boss sympathised and hoped he would soon recover. His closest friend at work later told me laughing that "his mate" lived in a bungalow.
  • Oh_Yoni_Boy
    Oh_Yoni_Boy Posts: 1,762
    dizzee said:

    Dog ate my car keys...

    I've rolled that over from school.

    Car wouldn't start, got a guy coming over from Fisher Price to have a look at it later
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,972
    'I can't come in today because I'm sick'
    'How sick are you?'
    'Well, I'm in bed with my sister'

    This won't work in Norfolk, obviously.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,662
    IdleHans said:

    'I can't come in today because I'm sick'
    'How sick are you?'
    'Well, I'm in bed with my sister'

    This won't work in Norfolk, obviously.

    Posted that 5 years ago on this thread, only just getting LOLs.
  • I used to work in the Employment Service with a lady who had numerous days off sick for a variety of reasons.

    As time went by, her line manager had to giver her a written warning about her poor sick record.

    So, she began to take days off for "other reasons" which then made inroads into her annual leave allocation, hence she was forced to come up with more inventive reasons for "special leave"......

    My favourite was when she rang in one morning to say she had been traumatised by a snake slithering into her kitchen ( it was summer...) & was standing on a chair awaiting the Council Pest Controller's arrival !

    This was on an estate in Dartford, BTW....
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,871
    1st class excuses. How about the absolute opposite.

    My old boss, told his boss that his dad had died.

    A complete lie so he could get a few days off, fake sympathy and attention from people around him.

    A very weird person. Pathological liar.

  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,886
    edited March 2017
    Must have been 30 years ago now, one of the technical services staff rolls in half way through the morning and says his bird hasn't been very well. So I empathised and asked what was wrong with her, the fella says 'Oh no I don't live with anyone, it's my pet Parrot'

    Well I had to bite my cheek to stop the obvious retort (sick as a parrot) and laughter however the rest of the office were in bits as you can imagine although the lad couldn't see the funny side of it at all and was genuinely quite upset. His punctuality wasn't the best but I didn't have the heart to rip him a new one that day.

    True story :tongue: .

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  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,902
    i once received a medical certificate from an employee that read " bleeding piles" ..wasnt quite sure if bleeding was a swear word rather than the full description of the illness ,not a nice thing to have but you would have thought a doctor would have written "severe haemorhoid inflammation" or somesuch
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304

    Become an alcoholic, nice bit of time off for a stint in rehab and plenty of opportunities to fall off of the wagon.

    "become".

    Right.
  • A new girl started at our place about 5 months ago but is already stretching it abit with the sick excuses.

    Best one was a couple of weeks ago she was due in at 7:30 but no show, didn't phone in either so about 9:30 the manager rang her and asked where she was. Well she was at home and couldn't come in because she couldn't find her work shoes!

    I overheard all this so i quickly disappeared, hid my shoes and immediately went and told the manager i couldn't do my job today and would have to go home. When he asked why i said someone had stole my shoes when i wasn't looking. He saw the funny side of it.

    Another bloke called in sick years ago because his hamster had died. Unbelievable.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304



    Another bloke called in sick years ago because his hamster had died. Unbelievable.

    You heartless bastard. How is he doing?


  • Another bloke called in sick years ago because his hamster had died. Unbelievable.

    You heartless bastard. How is he doing?
    He's ok although since then he's lost 2 guinea pigs, 4 gerbils, 7 goldfish, 3 rabbits, 12 pigeons and a donkey. Blokes notorious!
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    The best ever will be not to own a phone or a computer, and subsequently say you were too sick to make it to a phone box.
    They are employers not doctors (unless you work in a hospital I suppose).
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,341
    edited March 2017
    These are genuine reasons for sickness from a Thai company that used to circulate all staff when anyone was sick. I've been waiting for this thread for years.

    Pannee is sick so she will be in the office today
    I will go to Ministry in Labour please contact Khun Pawana
    Thanyaraj is going to execute in Phnom Penh from Feb 6 to 15
    Kasem going to Fasion Island and Nattawut going to Paragon to take VD In-Store
    Nookie takes sick leave today
    K.Chaleampol has stomached, he will be in late.
    Attchara (Gib) have dose not feel well will come a bit late
    K. Parichart takes his half day anal leave today
    Prucksawan going to the Saint Louis Hospital for Roll-on Sniff
    Khun Thitirat (Thip) will be in late, dew to rain.
    Pichaya has bubbly butt, will come in around 11 a.m
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,341
    edited March 2017
    One of my staff in Thailand sent an email to her boss which read:

    Please execute me I am feeling unwell this afternoon
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    edited March 2017
    At a time when I was putting in 12 hour plus days due to workload of a new project, my boss took the Friday and Monday off because his Dad was in intensive care due to a heart attack. Less than a fortnight later the boss was off to Spain on holiday. Often "working from home today".
  • A bloke that I worked with was a no-show on a Monday morning, and didn't call in until after lunch that day (pre-mobile days).

    It turns out that he had gone to visit his Irish mate from University down in Brighton, and the Anti-Terrorist police had stormed the flat in the early hours of Monday morning and arrested all the occupants.

    It turns out that his mate had some very unsavoruy links to the IRA, had been under surveillance for a while and my poor mate was caught up in the aftermath.

    What made the whole thing even funnier, was that my mate was the poshest bloke you could ever meet, used to go to all the high society weddings etc.

    He was absolutely fuming when he returned to the office the next day, but the rest of the lads were in stitches.