excuses

[Tomo18]

ok...got told i cant have work off to attend this year...

my actual face:

the face inside my head:

so what im getting at, i will have my excuses when it comes around this year

im sure there has been some funny ones in the years gone by...so lets have them, what excuses have you thought up to get yourself there, whether it be work, a friends birthday, or even your own wedding

(disclaimer: i under any circumstance may USE them for real if they are reasonable)

Edited January 28, 2014 by Tomo18

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I've never been refused time off work as anual leave, ever. If I was told that I couldn't have the time off I would go to the festival anyway. I'd just go to the doctors and play the stress card. In fact, in all likelihood I'd punish my employers by making a meal of it and having several weeks off on the sick.

[alframsey]

I have just been informed my end of year uni exams will take place either in the first two weeks or final two weeks of June, what if it's the final two weeks? I am going by coach so do I have to collect my ticket on the Wednesday on the coach or would I be able to collect it another way if I explained to the festival?

There is zero chance of me missing Glasto and if that means missing one exam then so be it.

[Guest]

Just beware the cameras!!! (And if you have to ring in every day, don't do it pissed up in front of the Other Stage speakers )

[ICGenie]

I have just been informed my end of year uni exams will take place either in the first two weeks or final two weeks of June, what if it's the final two weeks? I am going by coach so do I have to collect my ticket on the Wednesday on the coach or would I be able to collect it another way if I explained to the festival?

There is zero chance of me missing Glasto and if that means missing one exam then so be it.

[alframsey]

Missing a week off work is one thing. Potentially screwing up your entire career by threatening your grade for a degree you've worked three years for is insane. There will be other Glastonburys. Unless it is not going to have any bearing on your final degree grade, do the damn exams!

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I know, I know. The thought I might miss it makes me actually well up right now, I just can't imagine missing the festival. Do you think the festival would allow me to arrange to collect my ticket on site if one of my exams falls on one the festival dates? It would only be one exam that could potentially be during the festival/.

[guypjfreak]

That's a complete bastard alf. I really feel for you. You could try contacting the festival office to explain the situation to them to see if they can help. Email them below;

[email protected]

[Osama Jim Laden]

That's really shitty if it happens alf, nice idea from yoghurt, I'd like to think there'll be a way to make it happen..

If they do, it'll be the best festival ever, how could it not be with all that positive energy..

[russycarps]

christ where do you work? what a bunch of c**ts. I'd stick bits of used bogroll underneath all their desks if I was you

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

what are they gonna do say PLEASE let him have time off to come to our lovely festi lol

Edited January 28, 2014 by Yoghurt on a Stick

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

christ where do you work? what a bunch of c**ts. I'd stick bits of used bogroll underneath all their desks if I was you

[efcfanwirral]

ok...got told i cant have work off to attend this year...

my actual face:

the face inside my head:

so what im getting at, i will have my excuses when it comes around this year

im sure there has been some funny ones in the years gone by...so lets have them, what excuses have you thought up to get yourself there, whether it be work, a friends birthday, or even your own wedding

(disclaimer: i under any circumstance may USE them for real if they are reasonable)

[ICGenie]

christ where do you work? what a bunch of c**ts. I'd stick bits of used bogroll underneath all their desks if I was you

[Jackmypie]

Missing a week off work is one thing. Potentially screwing up your entire career by threatening your grade for a degree you've worked three years for is insane. There will be other Glastonburys. Unless it is not going to have any bearing on your final degree grade, do the damn exams!

Edited January 29, 2014 by Jackmypie

[stardustjunkie]

Surely now that you've asked for it off, and they've said no, they're going to realise what you're up to when it comes to you making excuses?

Good luck though!

[stardustjunkie]

It's also my end of degree art exhibition that week. I'm going to pay a fellow student in alcohol to take whatever work I produce down.

[Bisque]

If I say "I've got the s**ts" then the phone call into work usually ends there. Be blunt.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

If I say "I've got the s**ts" then the phone call into work usually ends there. Be blunt.

[ICGenie]

All work and no play makes ICGenie a dull boy... or girl.

But nahh if it's a degree fair enough.

[alframsey]

It's also my end of degree art exhibition that week. I'm going to pay a fellow student in alcohol to take whatever work I produce down.

[Spindles]

My previous employer seemed to take delight in trying to prevent me from going, one year they said I could have 2 weeks off around the festival but had to work the saturday. I told them that was fine, they could have my resignation. I got the holiday.

[JoeyT]

Everyone knows where I work that Glastonbury week is my week. I've never had any issues with taking it off and take great pleasure in leaving my blackberry somewhere where I can't see the thing for 6 days!!

Long may this continue...

[glasto-worker]

One year in the 80's I was teaching at St Georges Medical School London and my trips to Glastonbury was booked one year in advance { I would be due back on the following Wednesday } - one year on my last day ' within one hour of leaving ' the Dean showed up and he wanted me to give a lecture on the Monday Morning - I burst out laughing and told him there is no way in hell could I guarantee that I could get back for Monday morning as the car parks were chock a block { and impossible to leave on the Sunday - well that is what I told him } so if he wanted me back he would have to hire a helicopter - he had a little think - ' well lets put it back to the week after '.

If a employer has been given one year advance notice and they have accepted the holiday allocation then its unreasonable for them to try and change things on the last day but of course I had a lifetime Tenable University Contract so could not be sacked unless I killed someone - its very rare for many to have this type of contract these days.

that was the only year where I was asked to change my holidays.

[incident]

See mine aren't end of degree exams, simply end of year... I guess it still has a bearing on the final grade though