Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Your favorite excuse when calling off work
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#0Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/17/04 at 4:34pmWell, last week I used the sick one, but today I just didn't call off. I was gonna say that my sister is in labor and I have to be there with her.
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#1re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/17/04 at 4:42pm
kidnapped by aliens. always work.
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SammyGal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/04
#2re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/17/04 at 5:29pm
as a woman, pull the "it's that time of the month" shtick.
No man can ever understand and they usually freak out when hearing that. :)
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#3re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/17/04 at 5:37pm
Women can use any mysterious gynecological problem as an excuse to a male boss.
Unfortunately, I work in an Ob/Gyn office.
Damn.
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#4re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/17/04 at 5:41pm
My personal favorites are
"Loading my assault rifle"
"Waiting for the required 3 days"
or the ever popular
"Making sure it can't be stopped by cutting the red wire"
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CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#5re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/17/04 at 6:00pmIm just really good at faking sick... my boss began to call my sick days and personal days, "Chicago Days." Usually if I called out (or left early!) it had something to do with Chicago lol
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#6re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/17/04 at 6:20pmAt Universal, you can only either call in "sick" or "personal"...if the lead or supervisor asks me, though, why I was out, it's usually: "Oh, my mom and I went to Disney"
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BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#7re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/17/04 at 6:50pm
Well, maybe since I work at Bob Evans, I can say that I am going down for a guided tour of the actual farm. 
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#8re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/17/04 at 8:11pmI was up too late reading posts on Broadwayworld.com
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#9re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/17/04 at 8:12pm"My Iguana Died"
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#10re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/17/04 at 8:15pm
Sumofallthings I LOVE YOUR LIST!
Actually...I hardly call in at all. I'll drag my butt in even in the worst condition. The last time I missed a big amount of time was for surgery last September.
My boss usually begs me to leave if I'm sick and always reminds me about how many vacation days I need to use or lose before year-end. :o)
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sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#11re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/18/04 at 5:13pm
Well whooping cough is good cos a) it's contagious
b) it is making a comeback
c) people kinda know about it
But dont really know so,
benefit of the doubt!
#12re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/18/04 at 5:17pmbroadwayitis. For no apparent reason, those who have this contagious disease burst out with broadway showtunes.
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/18/04 at 5:53pmI'm honest when I call in sick. I say, "I hate those disgusting kids and their du-rags. I don't want to hear the name 'Shaquanna' for 24 hours, so I'm taking a mental preservation day. Good luck in finding a sub!"
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#14re: Your favorite excuse when calling off work
Posted: 7/18/04 at 7:27pmMy understudy has an agent coming to check him out, it's the least I can do for a friend!
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